Digital Collages

7th grade graphic arts students recently finished digital collages in Photoshop. Students found images online that they thought represented their personalities and then edited them in Photoshop. Next we discussed how to arrange them in an interesting way that some of the images would overlap and have different proportions in order to create visual interest. I was really pleased with the work that these students did on this unit, they have come a really long way in their ability to edit images and to cut them out from a background. Check them out below: 

Op Art 2.0

8th grade op art drawings from quarter 2. 

Notan 2.0

Check out some Notan collages from quarter 2 7th grade students below:

This assignment explores contrast, proportion, balance, and space. Students learned about these things and then created a design that demonstrates that understanding.

Weekly Update 11/04/13 - 11/08/13

Sixth Grade

Sixth graders spent most of the week working with the element of shape. We talked about the difference between organic and geometric shapes and when we all knew what those were students created creatures using only organic or geometric shapes. These drawings were finished on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday we worked on beginning our newspaper sculptures which we will continue next week.

Seventh Grade

In seventh grade we discussed balance, proportion, and space and talked about the Japanese design concept of Notan. We made collages which represented our new found knowledge and mimicked Notan through our use of color and symmetry. 

 Eighth Grade

Eighth graders spent the week learning about coil building pottery. They made a coil built vessel this week, which are drying out as I type this. I'll fire them next week and hopefully we can glaze the week after that. Pictures should come soon.

Gifs part 2

7th Grade digital art students started the grading period out with a GIF project. First they drew a character that served as an alter ego for themselves. Some students chose to do animal versions of themselves, superheroes, athletes, or just them in a different outfit. Then we used the digital painting software ArtRage to create a background painting on the computers. We put all of the images into photoshop and edited everything and created frames of animation. Lastly we used gifpal.com to create our GIFs. I'm really proud of the work that these students did. Check out the great animations below.