Curated OER
Lesson Plan: Patience & Skill: The Craft of Carving
Highly ornate or complex art can only be mastered with patience and skill. Learners explore the skills required to carve complex geometric designs seen on the image of a palace facade. They examine the image, discuss carving techniques,...
Curated OER
Plaster and Vermiculite Carving
Provide your class with the opportunity to experience the design process and subtractive sculpture. You mix vermiculite and plaster to create a soft variable material. Learners use this material to carve any abstract art form they...
Curated OER
Stone Figurines
Learners analyze visual arts by examining images on the Internet. In this figurine lesson, students research Keith Haring's artwork on the web and identify his body movement artistic style. Learners utilize soft stones, carving tools and...
Curated OER
"Soapstone" Relief Sculpture
Students discuss what a relief sculpture is and the history of relief sculptures. Following the brief discussion and a demonstration, students have the opportunity to practice the relief carving technique.
Other
How to Carve Marble, Limestone, Soapstone, Alabaster
This is a very informative site, created by stone sculptor, Shane Smith. Great photo examples, information on how to carve, and where to get supplies.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Sculpture
Take a one-minute tour through the history of sculpture. View a variety of sculpture techniques and be a sculpture critic. Visit the sculpture studio and learn about carving, casting and modeling. Meet artists, and see them at work....
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture
Be an art critic, and compare and contrast sculptures in this virtual art gallery. Watch short video clips about this art medium, see student sculptures, send an e-art card, or virtually sculpt your own creation.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 5: 3 D Art
This fifth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of three-dimensional art. Students learn about sculpture and its history, government-funded art works, and controversy in art. They look at other types of 3-D...
Tech4Learning
Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Carving
Dozens of useful photos of various carvings from around the world! A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
Museum Network (UK)
Wallace Collection: Material World: Wood
Learn where wood comes from and about the properties of wood that make it useful to artists.
Museum Network (UK)
Wallace Collection: Material World: Stone
Explore how stone has been used to create art for over the years. See examples of objects and sculpture created with stone and learn where stone comes from, about different types of stone. such as marble and alabaster, and how it is carved.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Carve a Free Form Sculpture
Instructions on how to carve a small sculpture using plaster of Paris, a table knife and spoon. Also included is background information on the emergence of modern sculpture.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Listing of Wood Carvers
ArtCyclopedia's list of woodcarvers from the 19th and 20th centuries includes Isaac Fowle (1806-1843), Richard Hunt (b. 1951), and Calvin Hunt (b. 1956).
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Studio: Carving a Figure Out of Wood
Resource teaching how sculptors carve figures out of wood.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Halloween
This one-stanza poem gives a haunting message about the carving of a pumpkin during the season of Halloween.
Archaeological Institute of America
Shang City Uncovered
This article describes the early excavation successes of the American-Chinese archaeological partnership, the Anyang Project.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gems of Antiquity Quiz
Test your knowledge of ancient gems in this seven-question quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gems of Antiquity
The beauty of carved gemstones has captivated craftsmen, collectors, and connoisseurs since antiquity. Precious markers of culture and status, gems were sought by Greek and Roman elites, and are still valued by modern monarchs and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gem Carving Quiz
Test your knowledge of gem carving with this seven-question quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chinese Jade: An Introduction
What is jade? The English term "jade" is used to translate the Chinese word yu, refers to a number of minerals including nephrite, jadeite, serpentine and bowenite, while jade refers only to nephrite and jadeite. Chemically nephrite is a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Jade Ornament for the Top of an Axe Shaft (Neolithic China)
Graves of the Hongshan culture (about 3800-2700 B.C.E.) might have held as many as 20 jade artifacts while those of the Liangzhu culture (about 3000--2000 B.C.E.) had as many as 300. These included bead necklaces and other decorative...
Other
The Pumpkin Gutter
Wow, these are not your average carved pumpkins. These are true pieces of art.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Leo Amino
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Leo Amino. Amino worked as a sculpture artist and experimented with various forms, most notably carving techniques.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jim Colclough
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Jim Colclough is described here along with information on his contributions to art through wood carvings.