The Eggshell Sculptor

The Eggshell Sculptor

Read about the Eggshell Sculptor. Fill in each blank with words from the box. (You will not use all the words.) 

control              expensive            material             put… together           specific

cut                     inside                    outside            sculpture              throw away

draws               last (verb)            parts of              space                         unusual

The Eggshell Sculptor

Some artists today make art with very____unusual_____ things, like old clothes, vegetables, old books, butterflies, and stones. Gary LeMaster makes beautiful art with a things, like old clothes, different kinds of unusual _________. He uses eggshells! An eggshell is the hard ________ part of an egg.

How does he do it? First, he _________ a picture on the eggshell with a pencil. Then he uses a dentist’s drill to _______ out some small _______ the shell. Cutting the shell is very difficult. LeMaster needs to _________ the drill very well. If he doesn’t, the eggshell can break into many little pieces. Then he has to _________ the eggshell and start again with a new one.

When the ________ is finished, LeMaster puts a special material on it. Now the eggshell sculpture will not break. Then he puts each sculpture in a special _______ so people can look at it, but not break it. Sometimes he puts his sculptures under glass. This way, the sculptures _______ a long time.

LeMaster makes many different kinds of eggshell sculptures. Sometimes, people pay him to make a _________ sculpture that they want. For example, one man asked LeMaster to make a sculpture of a football with his football team’s name on it. Some of LeMaster’s sculptures are very ___________. People pay $2,000 or more for some of his very unusual eggshell sculptures.

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a dentist’s drill: a small machine that dentists use to make holes in teeth

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