This Art and design video guides learners to plan abstract sculptures by drawing shapes in and around real objects to explore positive and negative space and arranging shapes to inspire designs. The activity develops creative thinking, spatial awareness and confidence in 3D art.
Subject: Art and design
Teacher video: Drawing for sculpture
This Art and design video supports teachers in introducing the concepts of positive and negative space to help learners explore abstraction in sculpture. These drawings inform their sculpture plans for the next lesson.
Vocabulary display – Art and design S4: Sculpture and 3D: Mega materials
This unit vocabulary includes keywords from the Stage 4 unit Sculpture and 3D: Mega materials and additional unit-specific words that may be helpful in a display.
Learner video: Joining shapes
This Art and design video introduces learners to cardboard joining techniques for building abstract 3D structures. It encourages experimentation, problem-solving and collaboration to create strong, stable forms.
Teacher video: Techniques for joining shapes
Learner video: 3D structures
This Art and design video guides learners in transforming flat 2D shapes into 3D sculptures using folding, rolling and slotting techniques. It encourages hands-on experimentation with balance and connections to create imaginative forms.
Teacher video: Art in 3D
This Art and design video supports teachers in introducing learners to sculpture by guiding them through the process of transforming 2D shapes into 3D structures. Learners manipulate card by folding, rolling and slotting shapes together to build freestanding forms without glue or tape.
Learner video: Hands on a cave wall
This Art and Design video teaches learners to create a collaborative prehistoric-style artwork using handprints. They make a textured background with earthy colours before working in pairs to explore positive and negative handprint techniques inspired by ancient art.
Teacher video: Hands on a cave wall
This Art and design video supports teachers in helping learners create a collaborative cave wall artwork using positive and negative handprints. It explains how to prepare a textured background, demonstrates printing techniques and encourages full-class participation inspired by prehistoric examples.