Metal Tooling
Project Description:
Students will emboss a 9" x 12" sheet of aluminum. The embossing process will create a relief sculpture of student's chosen subject.
EMBOSS: carve, mold, or stamp a design on (a surface) so that it stands out in relief.
RELIEF SCULPTURE: In plastic art, relief sculpture is any work which projects from but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it is carved. Reliefs are traditionally classified according to how high the figures project from the background.
Summary of the History of metal working:
In its widest sense, the term metalwork includes any object made from metal. During the era of ancient art, such objects were mostly functional and commonly included weapons, armour, items of equestrian equipment, eating vessels and utensils. Gradually, however, new processes were discovered that led to the creation of new and exciting metallic forms of decorative art, which found a ready market among religious orders, secular leaders and the affluent classes. In this article we focus our attention on decorative objects - including ritualistic and ceremonial items, personal ornaments and sculptures - made out of various metals (or combinations of metals), such as iron, copper, bronze, silver, gold and brass.
Metalwork has its own crafts, such as hammering, embossing, chasing, gilding and inlaying, and intersects with several different types of art, including goldsmithery, champlevé and cloisonné enamelling, silversmithing, jewellery art and ironsmithing. It has made a major contribution to the development of Bronze Age art (3000-1000 BCE); Iron Age Art (1100-200 BCE) - notably Celtic metalwork (Gundestrup Cauldron, Battersea Shield), Persian Achaemenid goldsmithery, and Greek bronze sculpture - as well as early Christian art (300-800 CE) (ecclesiastical vessels, liturgical crosses, bindings and ornamentation of illuminated manuscripts); medieval Christian art (600-1200) (reliquaries, shrines, various types of altarpiece art, ornamentation of gospel manuscripts), and later periods. Great metalwork can be monumental (Sanxingdui Bronzes), portable (Ram in a Thicket), or tiny (Gold Chariot from the Oxus Treasure).
First: IDEA WARM-UP (10 points): Create a Google Doc or Powerpoint that has at least 3 examples of ancient metal embossing or metal sculpture and 3 examples of modern metal embossing. Share with me when complete.
Next: You will create a sketch on a 9"x12" of your design (5 points). Think about the examples you found and what parts that would make sense or you want to be embossed and textured.
Students will emboss a 9" x 12" sheet of aluminum. The embossing process will create a relief sculpture of student's chosen subject.
EMBOSS: carve, mold, or stamp a design on (a surface) so that it stands out in relief.
RELIEF SCULPTURE: In plastic art, relief sculpture is any work which projects from but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it is carved. Reliefs are traditionally classified according to how high the figures project from the background.
Summary of the History of metal working:
In its widest sense, the term metalwork includes any object made from metal. During the era of ancient art, such objects were mostly functional and commonly included weapons, armour, items of equestrian equipment, eating vessels and utensils. Gradually, however, new processes were discovered that led to the creation of new and exciting metallic forms of decorative art, which found a ready market among religious orders, secular leaders and the affluent classes. In this article we focus our attention on decorative objects - including ritualistic and ceremonial items, personal ornaments and sculptures - made out of various metals (or combinations of metals), such as iron, copper, bronze, silver, gold and brass.
Metalwork has its own crafts, such as hammering, embossing, chasing, gilding and inlaying, and intersects with several different types of art, including goldsmithery, champlevé and cloisonné enamelling, silversmithing, jewellery art and ironsmithing. It has made a major contribution to the development of Bronze Age art (3000-1000 BCE); Iron Age Art (1100-200 BCE) - notably Celtic metalwork (Gundestrup Cauldron, Battersea Shield), Persian Achaemenid goldsmithery, and Greek bronze sculpture - as well as early Christian art (300-800 CE) (ecclesiastical vessels, liturgical crosses, bindings and ornamentation of illuminated manuscripts); medieval Christian art (600-1200) (reliquaries, shrines, various types of altarpiece art, ornamentation of gospel manuscripts), and later periods. Great metalwork can be monumental (Sanxingdui Bronzes), portable (Ram in a Thicket), or tiny (Gold Chariot from the Oxus Treasure).
First: IDEA WARM-UP (10 points): Create a Google Doc or Powerpoint that has at least 3 examples of ancient metal embossing or metal sculpture and 3 examples of modern metal embossing. Share with me when complete.
Next: You will create a sketch on a 9"x12" of your design (5 points). Think about the examples you found and what parts that would make sense or you want to be embossed and textured.
Metal Tooling (Embossing) basics and tools intro:
Metal Embossing Project from start to finish.
*** Before you start you will create a practice piece to test out designs and tools. (sketch 5 points)
GOALS:
-At least three different textures shown on the metal tooling (embossing)
-Embossing done well. (raised surfaces that create a relief sculpture. Tools used properly)
-Texture emphasized with shoe polish.
-Overall interesting design. Use your metal space completely. Still think about image balance.
-At least three different textures shown on the metal tooling (embossing)
-Embossing done well. (raised surfaces that create a relief sculpture. Tools used properly)
-Texture emphasized with shoe polish.
-Overall interesting design. Use your metal space completely. Still think about image balance.