Art 3D Form: figure sculpture Henri Moore, A Gormley, Jean Arp and Barbara Hepworth with patterns.

A Key stage 3 project which starts with Figure drawing of class mates - lots of student examples to support and instructions for drawing.

Students then look at modern sculptures and uses them to simplify their figures into abstract shapes. There are once more student examples and clear instructions showing how to simplify. It is important to get students to show the simplification of their figure drawing into an abstract shape.

Students study 4 different sculptural artists - Further task involves doing an artist study on one of the Sculptors: Henri Moore, Anthony Gormley, Barbara Hepworth and Jean Arp and then students make a moodboard of their work. There are sheets for each sculptor showing some info and pictures of each sculptor.

Then there is the making of the sclpture with video clip to explain how to build armature and how to make 3D form using paper mache - there are a lot of good examples of student figures

Students then need to build the figure out of cardboard, papier-mâché, wire, straws and recycled objects and to decorate this with coloured paper, tissue paper and any other embellishments like buttons, beads and string.

Furthermore there is the embellishment of the sculptures…development of design and pattern by looking at Aboriginal Art, Gustav Klimt, African Art, Beatris Milhaze and students have to choose one of these designs to inspire their figure and begin to decorate their figure.

The students then draw out the simplified figure shape with the abstract colourful patterns and present this on a page in their sketchbook.

Finally there is the development of this figure into a hanging mobile looking at the work of Alexander Calder and an evaluation.