Animal Portrait Project
OPTION A: Animal Portrait
Create a portrait of a person as an animal.
Choose a person: a well‐known person from history, politics, literature, or the public sphere. You may alternately choose to do a self‐portrait.
Choose an animal, any animal.
Create a three‐dimensional portrait of your chosen person in the guise of this animal.
Process:
• Collect images of both your chosen person and your chosen animal and create a real or virtual scrapbook of these images.
• Come up with ideas for at least three different versions of this sculpture.
• Create drawings that represent each of these ideas. Be sure to conceptualize each version from several angles, meaning create more than one drawing of each of the three ideas.
• Once you have discussed these ideas with Sara or Kstony, create a small, solid maquette of your chosen version. This will serve as a model for the final piece.This sculpture should be primarily coil‐built and at least 15 inches tall or long. It may be designed to sit on the floor, on a table or pedestal, to hang from the ceiling, or to hang on a wall. It can be a single object or a series of objects.
Surface: Ceramic surface should be used to further develop your narrative through color, texture, pattern or imagery.
Objectives:
to become proficient in coil-building
to learn to build at a larger scale
to continue to learn timing as it relates to the ceramic process
to continue to develop an understanding of low‐fire surface materials
to express narrative ideas in three dimensions using form and surface