Mrs.+Rudolph's+Classroom

=Welcome to Mrs. Rudolph's Art Integration Project=

Welcome to Mrs. Rudolph's Classroom Art Page. We are starting in January a project about the Solar System. Each artist will create a relief sculpture on an old barn board using air drying clay to create the solar system in order and in sizes that are relative to the other planets around them. These will be painted and once completed will be beautiful artworks that can be hung on the wall. What a great way to learn about the solar system. So, stay tuned for more photographs as we complete our solar journey.

This process took the following steps: first the artists took an old barn board, they were all different sizes and shapes and they covered them with several strips of plaster of paris gauze, this helped to give the background an atmosphere and gave the clay something to hold on to, in theory. The teaching artist, me, ended up using grout to attach each planet onto the board once they all dried and popped off. That is 50 boards times 7 planets and which is over 350 planets all told, surprisingly it didn't take that long and they should never come off now.

Then the artists painted the background using blacks, blues and reds to give some good depth and lastly the artists painted the planets. They popped out with color once completed and were really beautiful and will make a nice addition to any wall once hung.

Great job Solar System Artists!