clay relief faces, pre-raphaelites

Clay Relief Face Sculptures

Pre-Raphaelites

Assignment

• Pre-Raphaelites encouraged studying nature in order to improve the artist’s ability to represent it expressively.

• Think of how different facial expressions communicate different emotions.

• Decide on an emotion you’d like to portray, and sketch out how you plan to communicate this emotion via sculpture.

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• These will be relief sculptures, so some parts of the face you will add on/build up with clay.– What parts of the face typically stick out further than

others?– These will be the parts you should build up on the

face.• Other parts you will have to carve.– What parts of the face seem more hollow, or recede

further back into the skull?– These will be the parts you should carve

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• Also use texture to show the way different parts of the face feel:– For example, the eyebrows should look like they

feel differently than the lips.

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