The Q2, grade 6 class have finished their gorgeous galaxy movies. To create these, they began by using acrylic paint, sponges and chalks to make a painting of a galaxy based on a photo of their choice. Then they added their galaxy to the Megaphoto app and chose a movie effect they thought would enhance... Continue Reading →
Grade 6 had a one lesson challenge to turn the pre-drawn scribble into either: birds, faces, insects or fish, and then they painted the whole canvas. We timelapsed the whole process, which the students loved to watch at the end. Their challenge was to work together, and complete the whole task in 1 hour. The... Continue Reading →
ARC (Animal Rescue Center) is an amazing charity that helps the many cats and dogs abandoned and abused on the streets in Ho Chi Minh City. They are run by volunteers and provide services such as medical, food, fostering, walking and adopting. Their main purpose is to try and find good homes for these innocent... Continue Reading →
I have a new class of grade 6 students who have now been with me for a couple of weeks. This course is very exploratory, where the students complete a variety of tasks in different media in a short space of time. The first task was to draw a 1/2 and 1/2- face/ character/ animal... Continue Reading →
Since our club time was short (40mins 9 sessions) we chose three Art With Heart tasks to focus on. Joining Hands For Peace through the Global Art Project "When you participate, your hand is joined with others, creating a tangible representation of the people around the world who join their energy together to create a... Continue Reading →
I wrote earlier about the steps leading up to this final task. Please click HERE to read about the process. Now, we are celebrating their end results. Once the students had finished their art, and wrote letters to the artist Terrance Osborne, they were then challenged to animate their art using DoInk Animation. ANIMATION PROCESS... Continue Reading →
One Point Perspective The students began this unit by learning how to draw one point perspective, which they then animated with DoInk animation and GreenScreen. You can read more about this part of the unit HERE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8SgsGaHoBc Two Point Perspective Now the students were ready to learn about two point perspective. They drew boxes, houses... Continue Reading →
I was so incredibly happy with this small unit because it gave the students a chance to play with traditional painting, digital painting, animation, stop motion and GreenScreen skills. In the end, there was even total student choice, which kept everyone happy. GALAXY PAINTING The students began by looking at galaxy photos and exploring sponge,... Continue Reading →
An Extension of a Landscape unit. I wrote previously about the steps leading up to the final paintings, which you can read about HERE. However, this is a sample of student documentation using Google Slides: LENA GIULIANO A Brief Summary Learning about Distance and the Planes of a Landscape The students learnt about foreground, background... Continue Reading →
