random book excerpt #37

There are many ways to make sculpture. One way is to put things together.

Matchboxes, a paper cup, a cardboard roll and an egg box are all being glued together.

Another way to make sculpture is to build up a form, using materials you can shape yourself. Here an elephant is made with bed springs, a watering-can, an old metal table and chicken wire. the are put together to make the elephant. Newpapers are stuffed under the chicken wire to keep the cement from falling through the wire. The shape is then build up.

You can make many objects like this elephant from old pieces of junk.

from Children Make Sculpture by Elizabeth Leyh (published by Van Nostrand Rienhold Co. 1974) out of print.

Posted by kerismith at January 11, 2010 11:30 AM