1. Sculptures

2. What is Sculpture?
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in 3-dimensions and one of the plastic arts.
Any Material can be used to create a sculpture.
There are different techniques to build or create a sculpture.

3. Cast Mold Sculpture
A sculptural technique in which liquid materials are shaped by pouring into a mold. To copy a solid object by pouring a liquid, such as melted metal, clay, wax, or plaster, into a mold and letting it harden. The mold is then removed and a copy, or cast, is left in the shape of the mold.

4. Subtractive Sculpture
a sculptural technique which material is carved or cut away from a base. Carving is a way of making sculpture by cutting away unwanted parts.

5. Relief Sculpture
a form of sculpture in which the image projects from a background.

6. Found Object Sculpture
Or Assemblage: a 3D assembly of carious materials to make an image. A technique of combining together pieces of “this and that” to create a 3D work. A piece of art made by combining a collected of 3D objects into a whole. It is usually made from scraps, junk, or various man0-made or natural objects.

7. Landscape Sculpture

8. Mobile Sculptures
a sculpture with moving parts.

9. Famous Sculptures in History

10. Ceramic Sculpture

11. Hand building Ceramics
Pinch pots:
Coiling:
Slab:

12. Wheel throwing

13. Ceramic vocabulary
Clay- A compound of decomposed and altered feldspathic rock consisting of various hydrated silicates of aluminum along with non-plastics, such as quartz, and organic material
Wet Clay- Clay that still has moisture in the material
Leather hard clay- The condition of raw clay ware when most of the moisture has evaporated leaving it still soft enough to be carved or joined to other pieces.
Bone Dry- The condition of unfired clay that has no absorbed moisture other than natural humidity.
Greenware- Unfired clay objects
Kiln- A furnace for firing ceramic products
Firing- The heating of clay or glaze to a specific temperature
Bisque Fire- First firing of clay to drive out chemically combined water and carbonaceous materials prior to glazing
Bisque- Clay which has been fired once, unglazed

14. Coil- Rope-like roll of clay used in hand building
Glaze- A glass-like coating fusion bonded to a ceramic surface by heat
Overglaze- Glaze decoration applied on the surface of a fired glaze, which is then refired
Throw or Throwing- Using the potter’s wheel to make forms by hand from plastic clay
Underglaze- A colored decoration applied on raw or bisque fired clay
Shrinkage- Contraction of the clay or glaze in either drying or firing
Wedge or Wedging- Mixing and de-airing clay by cutting it diagonally and slamming the pieces together.
Slip- A suspension of clay or glaze materials in water. Used to attach pieces together

15. Ocean animal Sculptures