Category: Digital

Posters to Profiles

11/1/2013

Students worked on their profiles again, but in a new way. Inspired by my friend (and former Countryside Art teacher), Danielle (Sanregret) Hanna, I taught my students a drawing/Photoshop project where they used line and shape to create a pattern within their hair and clothing.

We first read an article from Scholastic Art Magazine about posters created from Toulouse-Lautrec and Glaser. Then we examined a variety of posters from the 1960s before creating and editing our works in Photoshop. Check out the full gallery here.

All kinds of Collages

10/10/2013

Students are working on collages this week as we create both digitally and traditionally. 7th grade students are creating a Profile Collage where they embed images in their profile silhouette that express their interests. Here is a tutorial of the project that I made with Camtasia Relay (the lesson is adapted from this).

8th grade students are working on expressive Photoshop images, where they are making the unseen seen. This is always a fun project because the outcomes are so different.

Below are some more traditional collages created by Mrs. Allan's class. It was a really fun project and students did a great job working on weaving a pattern before applying their silhouette of a tree on top.

Finishing out Photo

5/11/2013

Students finished out their Dual Enrollment class this week with a presentation of the assignments given as they relate to the Artists we studied. Students were challenged to create a presentation with a tool of their choice (iMovie, PowerPoint, Google Presentation, Prezi, etc.) and then present their work to the class. When presenting, students explained how each image was made and the process of selecting a companion Artist's image to correlate with it. It was fun to see how the student created images related to the works we studied in class and how students presented on subject, composition, and overall mood of their works.

depth of field

3/17/2013

This past week, students in my Photo class turned in assignments that explored depth of field through the use of the aperture in the camera lens. Here is a great video that explains how this works. The following are images students produced that shows both shallow and wide depth of field.

Mason, Jordan S.

Skull, Emily M.

Feeder, Shelby L.

Sign of Power, Nicole H.

Intermission, Tyler P.

Chains, Olivia B.

Time, Tyler C.

Ancestry Digital Images

2/28/2013

Typically when I teach with Photoshop, I give students a bunch of resources and tutorials and have them choose what kind of images they want to make. There is usually the parameter that it has to be some kind of self portrait and I typically get a wide array of fun and interesting things...

This time around, I decided to use a project they had just finished in History class as a way to add some more meaning to our work. In their Photoshop portraits, students were challenged to use the information they found from their Ancestry project to create their images. It was really fun to see how students overlapped various images to show their diverse backgrounds and share information learned from their History class in a visual way.

Profile Collages

2/27/2013

7th grade students finished up their profile collages today to show what interests them. Most students were able to finish up, but some will need a little extra time tonight and tomorrow to get it done. I am excited to put them all up on Artsonia once they are finished.

Photoshop

2/26/2013

7th and 8th grade students are working with Photoshop to make the invisible, visible. 7th grade is doing that with their profile collages and 8th grade is using their Ancestry project in History to show their heritage. Photoshop is a great tool for compositing images and making something new. I look forward to tomorrow when everyone will turn in their finished products.

New Art on Artsonia

2/18/2013

I just spent the last few minutes finalizing the new pieces of digital art students created last week. In 7th grade, students made digital knots to accompany their colored pencil ones and in 8th grade, students expressed who they are using both images and words.

Check out the results on our online gallery and make sure to leave your favorites a comment!

Tests and Names

1/24/2013

One thing I have learned over the course of my teaching career is that sometimes you have to adjust as you encounter different situations.

This week set us up with a snow day, two hour delay, and a day where the internet was not quite working... despite any snags in original plans, my students were able to accomplish ALL of the tasks set before them and they did so with great attitudes and winning results!

Today students took their pre-test and followed up by creating their name on Graffiti Creator - all on Moodle. This is our second day with the computers and I am already in awe of the speed and proficiency students are accomplishing tasks. I am excited to see how much more we are able to produce as a result of this infusion of technology and can't wait until students start filling their Artsonia online portfolios with the results!

Profile Collages

9/17/2012

7th grade studens finished their Photoshop collage portraits to help me get to know them better. I love how colorful the images are now that students filled them with their favorite items. I also really enjoyed the artist statements students wrote to accompany their work. The recurring theme from the statements was how much students liked being able to choose what they wanted to put in their faces and how they also enjoyed using computers.

Photoshop is always a fun tool to use in my room and I am excited when I see the results. You can check out the full class of work on www.artsonia.com/schools/byron1.