Excellent
10 pts.
CRAFTSMANSHIP
Sculpture is realistic and easy to identify subject. Time has been taken to smooth out the lines. Color choice is realistic. Relief (if attempted) shows skillful use of texture and detail.
IN THE ROUND
Sculpture is effectively created to be seen 360 degrees around.
ARMATURE
The frame or skeleton structure used to support modeling material such as clay or plaster in sculpture.
Armatures were effectively used to give stability and strength to the sculpture.
PROPORTION
The sculpture and background are in proportion.
DESIGN
Choice/Variety of elements, use of space, and focal point skillfully and effectively capture the subject’s main idea.
FOUR STANDARD WAYS OF CREATING SCULPTURES
1. Carving - cutting out from a block, a stone, marble, log of wood, soaps, glass, etc. until what is left is the desired shape.
Sculptor uses chisels, knives, drill, saw, files, sandpapers and grinders.
Favorite is wood which is easier to carve and shape.
2. Molding - shaping smaller pieces of sculpture with hand, while for big sculptures, frames of wood and metal are needed to make the sculpture stable.
Materials: terracotta or natural clay, plaster of Paris, cement, and fiberglass.
3. Casting - reproducing a sculptured model by enclosing the molten metal, plastic, rubber and glass with a negative model cast out in plaster of paris, cement, or bricks.
It is also a process done in reproducing hundreds/thousand copies of objects.
4. Construction or assemblage - process of putting together different parts of a sculpture through welding, gluing, screwing and tying.
The assembling or putting together of spare parts of appliances, cars, equipment, and toys.