Teaching students grade 6 to 8 to do a clay bust

Introducing the Ancient Roman Art

Steps we took:

1. Learning the rules for drawing a portrait front view.

2. Drawing a portrait front view ( for about 1hour )

3. Reading about, watching and discussing Roman Ancient busts.

4. Learning how to work with clay. First, for practicing, they did a small animal.

5. Watching the teacher (me) doing quickly a bust.

6. Working on their own. 

* We have used Natural Modeling Clay.

Time for teaching all of these: about 5 hours.