ART 171 Sculpture I
Suffolk County Community College

Professor: Matthew Gehring 
gehrinm@sunysuffolk.edu
Office: Rm. 108 Southampton Bldg.
 
Office Hours:
M/W 11:30AM-4:30PM
T/R 11:30AM-12:30PM
For immediate assistance contact Maria Cherubino: 631-451-4093 or cherubm@sunysuffolk.edu

Memento Mori:

Objectives:

This assignment is intended to help you to learn to see more fully.  It asks you to observe volumes and voids, contours, proportions, relationships thoroughly and in detail an along the way, to model an exact replica in plastilina clay.  You will also build on this foundations to create personal and unique visual expression. 

Requirements:

Closely observe the skull.  Use masking tape and newspaper to build a form that will be used as the core, add and subtract plastilina to model an accurate, 1:1 scale, clay skull of your own.  We will then make a plaster gauze shell, remove the clay, and seal the shell, to create a hollow plaster skull.  Seal the skull with your primer, and, guided by one or two primary design elements and principles,collage the entire surface.

Required materials:

*Grey* Van Aken Palstilina modeling clay (5lbs)

Plaster Gauze

Masking tape
Newspaper
Collage materials (Scissors, mod podge or acrylic matt medium)

This project due date will be discussed in class.