Lesson Goals and Objectives:
1. Students learn to make storytelling plates or tiles based on David Stabley’s technique.
2. The lesson incorporates art history, aesthetics, and criticism with a hands-on activity.
3. The lesson focuses on various ceramic techniques and important composition and design elements essential to creating a uniquely designed plate or tiles; fundamental technical skills for using specialty finishing products to create non-traditional surfaces; and self-expression.
1. Students learn to make storytelling plates or tiles based on David Stabley’s technique.
2. The lesson incorporates art history, aesthetics, and criticism with a hands-on activity.
3. The lesson focuses on various ceramic techniques and important composition and design elements essential to creating a uniquely designed plate or tiles; fundamental technical skills for using specialty finishing products to create non-traditional surfaces; and self-expression.
Narrative Art
Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures. However, without some knowledge of the story being told it is very hard to read ancient pictures because they are not organized systematically like words on a page, but rather can unfold in many different directions at once.
In narrative art, the artist chooses how to portray the story, represent the space, and how to shape time within the artwork.
In narrative art, the artist chooses how to portray the story, represent the space, and how to shape time within the artwork.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
David Stabley
Lives in Bloomsburg, PA. Stabley's work is based on storytelling through tiles.
Below is David Stably talking about one of his tiles. "I feel that this tile in a comical way expresses "blinded by love". The front person's color may represent his mood, maybe he looks at her sadly because they cannot truly love each other. The grass may just add to the dream state of the piece" We will be using Stabley's technique to create a story of our own. |
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Technique
You will be using a combination of subtractive and additive methods of carving. To give your story interesting depth and dimension, you will need to decipher between the foreground, middle ground, and background of your design.
Foreground: the part of a composition that appears closest to the viewer.
Middle ground: the part of a composition between the foreground and background.
Background: the part of a composition that appears to be farthest from the viewer.
Foreground: the part of a composition that appears closest to the viewer.
Middle ground: the part of a composition between the foreground and background.
Background: the part of a composition that appears to be farthest from the viewer.
Student's Work
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Topic: Real world and fantasy/dream worlds
You can choose to do either three tiles side by side or four tiles that are put together in a square Read storybooks, think about dreams you've had, look at work by other artists, brainstorm with your table mates. Look at things and take notes on stuff you like. You will need four different sketches. You will need to select the appropriate tile layout for your design (three or four-tile layout). After getting your idea signed off by Ms. C, you will break up and enlarge your design to use as a template for your tile. |