Cast Plaster Hand Planters

GIVE THEM A HAND

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Pristine Plaster Planters

A breathtaking piece of sculpture +

an advanced drawing lesson =

a multimedia exploration of hands

Our advanced 9 and 10 year old smallSHOP artists

were ready for a serious challenge:

Time to tackle drawing those tricky hands!

We studied our hands sculpturally by creating a plaster cast.

The kids cupped their hand to form a planter

and each piece because a home for it's very own air plant!

While the plaster dried, we investigated hands through drawing.

Through tips, tricks, experimentation and practice

each student created a playful portfolio documenting their process.

BLIND CONTOUR

BASIC SHAPES

CROSS CONTOUR LINES

We are SO proud of our 

smallSHOP artists

and their artistic journey.

These beautiful planters 

are timeless treasure

preserving their brilliant

 little hands for years to come.

Keep Exploring!

always,

smallSHOP

smallSHOP gets Room-y - 3D spaces

A 3D room lesson is always a "go-to" project. 

You get serious bang for your buck!

The children are always in awe of what they can create. 

We breakdown 3D design into simple steps.

When you explain to any beginner that it is simply straight and diagonal lines, 

it makes it much less intimidating. And from then on it is practice. 

I like to talk about the way we "see" a place and then how to really "look" at it. What I mean by this is, we often times look and process by memory, "yes it is a room, I see that." But when drawing you must really LOOK at it and translate it into the simplest shapes and lines. 

Once you have created the "room" you can fill it with objects of your liking. 

Above are a few examples of a pencil sketch, chalk pastel renditions and an acrylic painting. 

I encourage you all to draw a rectangle. 

Connect each corner to the corner of your paper. Voila - a room. 

Now fill it. 

As Always, 

Have a creative day

Sage