This digital art project has been a work in progress that we commenced last term and it’s so exciting that we are finally finished. It’s a design process that has taken many weeks to complete and the finished products are just sensational.
We first spent some time looking at the style of impressionist paintings. Many students were already familiar with the work of Vincent van Gogh, so his well-known painting Starry Night was used as inspiration for our own artworks.
The students also watched this amazing interactive animation.
The first step in the design process was to create our backgrounds. These were created using only blue, white and black paint. Students used small brushstrokes, blending the colour carefully, similar to the impressionist style.
These were scanned into the colour photocopier and a PDF digital file made for each student
The next step was to hand draw and colour separate images that they wanted to feature in their artworks.
These were then scanned as jpeg digital files.
Then we took to the ICT room, to start the next process.
By using Microsoft Publisher students created their own digital artwork file, importing their background PDF files and then their jpeg files containing their individual hand-drawn images. The next step involved students learning how to copy, paste and individually crop and re-colour the backgrounds of each hand-drawn image. This sure was tricky and took quite a great deal of time and patience.
Finally the class learnt how to copy, paste, re-size and re-position their individual images on their backgrounds. This really made their artworks come to life!
I am sure you’ll agree that they are just beautiful. The students have achieved such a wonderful result and it was well-worth the many hours of work involved!
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