United Art and Education Original Art Project: Use various gauges of wire to create unique sculptures! To view and purchase project materials, follow this link: www.unitednow.com/wire-sculpt...
JazakAllah Khair so much for this!!! It was really insightful. I liked how you showed them step by step. Keep it up and thank you again for posting this!
I don't know what I liked more - the video or the audio! So I split the difference, "liked" and "subbed", just for the Halibut. I think it was a Halibut - hard to tell...
Hi Art Now - the metal of the wire doesn't matter as much as the gauge. You'll want the armature strong enough to start, then the details can be added with thinner wire. You can purchase them here: www.unitednow.com/parawire-annealed-wire
Hi Fatima, The last sculpture was made using tissue paper. Follow this link for instructions: www.unitednow.com/wire-basket-sculpture-project-180 You can also watch our video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bmagyZBRTA0.html
I teach a wire assignment for college students and am wondering where to buy the wire you demonstrated? The dark stuff is at hardware stores, but not sure about the copper and tinned copper wire. I am thinking of switching to tinned copper to make it easier on my students’ hands 😊
Twist the wire tightly around the wire piece you are connecting it to; use pliers if needed, for heavier gauge wire that you can't wrap easily with fingers; & to get it tight, wrap around slowly, carefully, tightly, working it so you wrap it tightly. Then, after wrapping, they use pliers to squeeze the wrap tight- you can squeeze all the wrap around spirals together toward each other, plus then squeeze the wrap in general, to tighten it up by squashing it ; that is what I see in these videos.
That will depend on a lot of variables. Our sculptures were approximately 7" tall; students may want to do smaller or larger. It also depends on how much detail they want to wrap into it. I'd suggest cutting 3 feet at a time, and creating your own sculpture to experiment to better get your expected measurements for the classroom. I'm not sure which wire you were considering, but the Dark Annealed is the most economical.
All of the wires we've shown here (and offer on our website www.unitednow.com/art/ceramics-sculpture/sculpture/sculpture-wire) are soft temper. For this project, it's just important to create the initial armature with the smaller gauge and use highest gauge (thinnest) for the detailed wrapping.
