These lessons are taught to Advanced Placement art classes, as well as, general art students of all ability levels. Appropriate lesson for grades 7-12. The study of three dimensional form allows students to understand space, form, light, weight, surface texture, and balance more than any other process. Students create fluid representational forms depicting natural sea forms by modeling wire mesh. Students create fluid representational natural sea forms by bending, folding, stretching, manipulating and transforming wire mesh.
Students create representational natural forms for the viewer to move into and around the form.
Students apply combinations of visual elements and principles as they explore and create various solutions. Have the students view works of several wire sculpture artist, including Henry Moore, Calder, and Georgia Okeefe s art work. Demonstrate various methods to texture wire using common tools found in the classroom. Roll the mesh into the palm of your hands to stretch the wire. Fold and pleat wire, then pull apart to elongate.