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Egyptian Art — Sculpting

November 27, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 14 Comments

It seems we keep pulling out our (affiliate link) carving tools lately.

tut sculpture head and tools

First it was potato stamp cartouches, now it’s clay sculptures.

I had planned for Sprite to do some drawing in the Egyptian style, but she was more inclined to reproduce a three dimensional object.

I’m flexible. Why not?

She chose the famous Tutankhamen mask.

I didn’t intervene at all. I just gave her the tools. Through trial and error, she learned what was the best order for putting the pieces together. There were a few instances of taking things off and then putting them back on at a later stage in the process.

I love how she hollowed out eye sockets and then put in eye balls.

tut sculpture head on sticks

tut sculpture adding hieroglyphs

The book pictured here is Ancient Egyptian Art from the Art in History series. We have a few of these titles, and I really like the way they give a concise overview of art in various time periods. They are full of photographs (as an art book really must be) and vocabulary.

tut sculpture finished

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Filed Under: art, hands-on homeschool, history Tagged With: ancient egypt, art, hands-on, sculpting

Comments

  1. J's mom says

    November 28, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    I love it. She is talented.

    We currently have an “Egypt” exhibit at our city museum. http://www.art-museum.fks.ed.jp/exhibition/mummy.html

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  2. Debbie says

    November 29, 2010 at 8:10 am

    Wonderful that you remain “flexible” Jimmie and way to go Sprite! Beautiful job on your sculpture!

    It’s been a while since our children studied Egypt but it was one of our favorite unit studies. I still have the tomb our son made. We also purchased an Egyptian Dig Educational Kit that came with a chunk of hard clay with artifacts inside and some carving tools… The kids worked for days at the kitchen table to get them free! To top it off we visited the Ancient Egyptian Exhibit at the Museum of Science which just happened to be in our area at the time we were studying the Egyptians.
    Love seeing the hands on work here and the book looks wonderful!
    Keep at it!
    Deb

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  3. Dana says

    December 7, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    Very cool. We just studied ancient Egypt not too long ago and went to a King Tut exhibit up in S. Dakota last year. The children loved the mask.

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  4. PrairieJenn says

    September 18, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Awesome:) We have to try this! Thanks for the links on Ancient Egypt too.

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  5. lauren says

    September 20, 2013 at 5:31 am

    I love these little sculps thay are so very cute

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  6. Olivia says

    October 9, 2013 at 9:51 am

    Wow! That is a cute King Tut 🙂

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  7. Ann says

    September 2, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    Awesome!!! Though the clay dude kinda looks like he’s angry.

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  8. Brianna says

    October 17, 2014 at 9:30 am

    I like your sculpture I am going to put one out that is a sphinx.!

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  9. anonimus says

    November 6, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    I love how she hollowed out eye sockets and then put in eye balls.lol

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  10. Melaney Amidon says

    December 9, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Shes a true artist. She did a good job.

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  11. OmqQueen says

    February 2, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    Man that is so adorbs. Nice clay work.

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  12. amber says

    September 27, 2016 at 11:00 am

    wonderful its perfect

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  13. amber says

    October 3, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    i know i allready gave you a coemet its just so much like the real thing i like how you got all the detiales

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  14. jonice says

    May 25, 2018 at 2:37 am

    It’s a very good idea

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