Sketching Sculptures

We started the day by talking about sculptures and reading our art book “An Art Alphabet: M is for Masterpiece” by David Domeniconi. In his book he describes sculptures as “art that’s not flat.” We discussed the sculptures we had created. Four sculptures were chosen and placed at tables around the classroom. The children were told they would sketch the sculptures. We demonstrated some simple sketching techniques such as, how we use our eyes to look for movement and shapes in the stick and wire sculptures. We talked about being artists in our classroom.

The children chose which sculpture they wanted to sketch and went to the table. It was amazing to watch the children concentrate so intently on their sketching process. You could hear a pin drop in our room, they were so focused.

After they sketched what they saw, they were asked what they thought their friend was trying to create with their sculpture. It was interesting to hear different interpretations of the sculptures.