Your email*




Multiple Level Lesson Plan

Taking Traditional Artwork to a New Level with iPad apps

Created on March 30, 2014 by TheresaGillespie



A couple simple iPad apps can transform artwork that students create using traditional media, like oil or chalk pastels, into brand new works of Art. Creating digital artwork from traditional works allow students to experiment with different design elements in their artworks.


17 Keeps, 4 Likes, 1 Comments

THE PLAN
1 session; 45 minutes per session

1. SWBAT define abstract.
2. SWBAT explore different elements of art in a work.
3. SWBAT compare and contrast digital and traditional art media.
4. SWBAT use iPad apps to manipulate an image.

1. Artworks done in a traditional art medium like pastels or paint.
2. iPad
3. iPad apps PhotoTropedelic and/or Percolator

Need these materials? Visit Blick!

1. Discuss abstract and realistic artwork with students.
-have students give examples of each
-have students compare and contrast abstract and realistic artwork

2. Demonstrate using the apps PhotoTropedelic and Percolator to transform a traditional artwork
-Show how to use the app to photograph the artwork
-Show how to use the different settings
-Discuss how the different settings can change how the color, balance, and other elements in the work look.
-Show how to save and share the image with you

3. Once students have finished the traditional artwork, allow them to pick one of the apps to manipulate digitally
-I suggest working in pairs so that they can help each other remember steps and can discuss the changes as they make them

4. When the digital work is finished students should save it to the camera roll and share using email, DropBox, Artsonia, or other ways of sharing with you

Students will fill out an artist statement answering the following questions:
Compare and Contrast the difference between Abstract and Realistic artwork. Does your digital work look Abstract or Realistic? What would you title your artwork? Compare and Contrast the methods you took to create the traditional artwork with the digital work. Which do you like better and why?


You could connect this lesson to Cubism using the Ray Ray setting on Percolator.

THE STANDARDS

Visual Arts Standard 1:
Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes


[K-4] Students know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes
[K-4] Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses
[K-4] Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories
[5-8] Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

Visual Arts Standard 2:
Using knowledge of structures and functions


[K-4] Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses
[K-4] Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas
[5-8] Students generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work

Visual Arts Standard 5:
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others


[K-4] Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks
[5-8] Students describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures

Visual Arts Standard 6:
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines


[5-8] Students compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context

THE FEATURES
Abstract Art, Cubism

Color/Value, Rhythm/Pattern, Shape

Digital

Technology

  • jroberts 03/31/2014 at 07:55am
    really great ideas.. I think I could use this as a I'm Done activity. Have them pick one of their pieces off of artsonia and recreate it.