Relief Sculpture

Relief sculptures are the projection of figures or forms from a flat background, as in sculpture, or the apparent projection of such shapes in a painting or drawing.

There are different types of relief sculptures in the world.

 

• Bas-relief or low relief
• High relief
• Sunken relief
• Counter-relief

Bas reliefs or low relief

       This type of of relief is a projecting image with a shallow overall depth, for example used on coins, on which all images are in low relief. 

       Bas relief is created either by carving away material or adding material to the top of an otherwise smooth surface.

 

 

 

 

For example, I made a Pucca & Garu bas relief for my class art project. The stuff that I used for this project are acrylic paint, cardboard, ribbons and paper flowers.

 

 

 

High relief

High relief is the same thing as low relief but the things depicted are closer to being fully 3D than in low relief.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunken relief

The image is made by cutting the relief sculpture itself into a flat surface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counter-relief

Where an image is fully modeled in a "negative" manner. The image goes into the surface, so that when impressed on wax it gives an impression in normal relief.