What's on YOUR Mind?
Consider your thoughts… When you attempt to clear your mind, what thoughts enter into or consume your thinking? What messages, memories, obsessions, fears, or desires are lurking below your conscious mind? Do you ever try to put words, or better yet pictures to those thoughts? For this assignment you will make a sculptural, yet wearable “headdress” representing your thought life. A variety of materials will be available for this project including, cardboard armatures, Paper Mache, colored tapes, tissue papers, feathers, and paint. You may also use found objects or ready-made hats from which to build on.
A Metacognative "Headdress" to Capture your Consuming Thoughts
Project Criteria:
- Sketches and planning clearly communicate a concept related to the maker’s thought life (not simply illustrated with pictures).
- A written reflective statement made to describe and explain the intended meaning and artistic choices.
- Constructed for both wear ability and sculptural form (taking it beyond a hat with pictures on it)
Unique materials: you are encouraged to bring found objects and materials to transform into the “headpiece.”
- Materials & Techniques: Use Paper Mache, armatures, found objects and decorative finishing touches to make a visually pleasing and conceptually intriguing “headpiece.”
- Decorative embellishments give the headpiece a finished and refined look.
- A written reflective statement made to describe and explain the intended meaning and artistic choices.
- Constructed for both wear ability and sculptural form (taking it beyond a hat with pictures on it)
Unique materials: you are encouraged to bring found objects and materials to transform into the “headpiece.”
- Materials & Techniques: Use Paper Mache, armatures, found objects and decorative finishing touches to make a visually pleasing and conceptually intriguing “headpiece.”
- Decorative embellishments give the headpiece a finished and refined look.
STEPS & MATERIALS:
1. Idea Gathering & Sketches - (10 Process Points)
2. Watch a few video tutorials on making Paper Mache Hats
3. Gather your materials to create an armature, the basic structure or bracing of the form. Use cardboard, tape, wire, hot glue, newspaper to form the pieces of your headdress design. It is stronger to build it out the whole form then paper mache all
the assembled pieces at once, rather than build the pieces separately then attach
them together- (20 ProcessPoints)
4. Apply several layers of paper mache. Let it fully dry between applications, apply
the layers in different directions for added strength. Smooth our paper bubbles
and avoid gloppy/sloppy application of glue, tape, and paper mache paste.
5. Decorate & Embellish your final paper mache headdress. (Color paint washes,
feathers, colored tissue paper, colored tape, etc. You may bring materials to
decorate your final headdress.
6. Write an artist statement explaining the form and significance of your headdress &
fill out the self-evaluation.
7. Get a photo wearing your headdress.
2. Watch a few video tutorials on making Paper Mache Hats
3. Gather your materials to create an armature, the basic structure or bracing of the form. Use cardboard, tape, wire, hot glue, newspaper to form the pieces of your headdress design. It is stronger to build it out the whole form then paper mache all
the assembled pieces at once, rather than build the pieces separately then attach
them together- (20 ProcessPoints)
4. Apply several layers of paper mache. Let it fully dry between applications, apply
the layers in different directions for added strength. Smooth our paper bubbles
and avoid gloppy/sloppy application of glue, tape, and paper mache paste.
5. Decorate & Embellish your final paper mache headdress. (Color paint washes,
feathers, colored tissue paper, colored tape, etc. You may bring materials to
decorate your final headdress.
6. Write an artist statement explaining the form and significance of your headdress &
fill out the self-evaluation.
7. Get a photo wearing your headdress.
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