Chihuly Bottle Sculptures
Published on Dec 22, 2015
Using painted plastic bottles to emulate Dale Chihuly sculptures
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Dale Chihuly is an American Sculptor. He uses a technique called 'GLASS BLOWING' to create his sculptures.
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GLASS BLOWING is a process where an artist blows AIR through a long tube to create a BUBBLE in hot glass.
The artist can shape the glass with tools and by rolling the glass on a table.
Examples by Chihuly
A great time-lapse video of a Chihuly sculpture being put together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW18CBPGFT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW18CBPGFT0
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We will use plastic bottles
for our sculptures
First
we need to collect bottles around our school
Water bottles are usually made of thinner plastic, and are easier to cut.
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Next
we will peel the labels, and paint the bottles with acrylic paints
Then, we use
scissors to cut the bottles
Start at the top
It will create a spiral
as you cut
using a hot glue gun,
we will attach the spirals to a piece of wire
...and we can hang our sculptures around school
for all to see...
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the bottom of the bottles
can be used too!
