Surreal Artwork with Perspective using GIMP

Surreal Artwork Intro

To get my students to make Surreal Artwork, they at first have to study some Surreal Artwork. On the day that I am not in class, I give them a handout with basics on perspective drawing that can get the students to independently draw the one point perspective of a room. Drawing in One Point Perspective has some great tutorials. I took a good chunk of them and turned it into this PDF of perspective_drawing directions for my students.

This is just full of Surrealism

Neat painting technique

Interesting choice in brushes

After taking a photo of their drawing, the students make a layer that is just an outline – but this time in TRUE perspective to the vanishing point

Nice Cat motif

Out of a dream? By combining images on top for a new layer YES

I like how this piece of art tells a story

I like how this student combined other images together to look even more Surreal

Nice painting and very surreal

Gigantic Pug strawberry

Interesting painting pattern

The artwork starts off as a “rough” drawing on paper to be digitally outlined in GIMP

Surreal Artwork Drawing to Digital Art

When I returned from my sub, my students had to take a picture of their drawing on their iPad and send it to their Kidblog account. We used these directions on how to send their perspective drawing to Kidblog.

Surreal Artwork outlined/painted in GIMP

By using my GIMP tutorials, students learned the basics of layers when working with their Surreal Artwork.  One layer was an outline of their lines in correct perspective. Another layer became their paint. Their final layer became pieces of Surreal artwork from artists like Salvador Dali, or they made their own by combining two unrelated photos together – such as out of a dream. Check out the lesson plan

Why GIMP for Surreal Artwork?

• GIMP is free version of Photoshop


• Gave students time to work on desktop instead of just mobile devices


• Great tool to make straight lines (perfect for perspective drawing)


• Utilize numerous layers while creating artwork


• Potential to save image to different file types

I only wish there was a GIMP like tool for the iPads. It is a little difficult to try to request the computer lab for a few days to get the students to do the project. I have also done this very similar project with my 6th graders with Surreal Perspective Drawing. But when not drawing/painting, GIMP is also a great tool to cut and edit photos to make a new and different piece of art. We have also used it to make some interesting Anti-Obesity Colleges or turned their Photos Into Celebrities.

Have you used GIMP as a Surreal Artwork tool? How so?

 

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Perspective Drawing of the Renaissance with GIMP

Perspective Drawing Intro

To get my students into Perspective Drawing, they at first have to study some art from the Renaissance. On the day that I am not in class, I give them a handout with basics on perspective drawing that can get the students to independently draw the one point perspective of a room. Drawing in One Point Perspective has some great tutorials. I took a good chunk of them and turned it into this PDF of perspective_drawing directions for my students.

Interesting paint design

If only this clip art didn’t block everything

Unfortunately, the pasted images are not in perspective here. But great samples of the time period

Nice and neat, good use of photos in perspective

The Mona Lisa is stretched really well with the perspective tool in GIMP

Probably one of the best

Very intricate perspective even in the window

Perspective Drawing to Digital Art

When I returned from my sub, my students had to take a picture of their drawing on their iPad and send it to their Kidblog account. We used these directions on how to send their perspective drawing to Kidblog.

Perspective Drawing outlined/painted in GIMP

By using my GIMP tutorials, students learned the basics of layers when working with their Perspective Drawing.  One layer was an outline of their lines in correct perspective. Another layer became their paint. Their final layer became pieces of artwork from the Renaissance that they pasted utilizing the Perspective tool. Check out my old Google Drive Slideshow lesson plan

Why GIMP for Perspective Drawing?

• GIMP is free version of Photoshop


• Gave students time to work on desktop instead of just mobile devices


• Great tool to make straight lines (perfect for perspective drawing)


• Utilize numerous layers while creating artwork


• Potential to save file to different file types

I only wish there was a GIMP like tool for the iPads. It is a little difficult to try to request the computer lab for a few days to get the students to do the project. I have also done this very similar project with my 7th graders with Surreal Perspective Drawing. But when not drawing/painting, GIMP is also a great tool to cut and edit photos to make a new and different piece of art.

Have you used GIMP as a Perspective Drawing tool? How so?

 

Check out my GIMP Tutorial YouTube Playlist

 

 

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Flipped class on Google Sketchup and HTML

Flipped Class – How to get one started

Flipped class you say? Luckily, I have had a little bit of experience with a Flipped Class before. I had my students show me how to use Minecraft in class. They have also helped me to create a flipped class showing off pieces of technology, which I have turned into future tutorials.

 

Flipped Class is all about….

I like to think that a Flipped Classroom is when the students become the teachers, and the teacher becomes the facilitator of the learning. I also like to be the student in the classroom as the kids show me a thing or two.

Flipped Class Intro

A lot of the media that you will see on this site was raw footage from the flipped class that I created. BUT the best way to see the learning is the combined video that I created at the top of this post.

Basically, it all started off with one of my students who won the 3D modeling category at our HCS Tech Fair. I wanted her to showcase her knowledge and skills of using Google Sketchup with her peers. I was also frustrated with previous Google Sketchup classes where I taught my students, so I thought she could do it a bit better.

LUCKILY, this flipped class was a 2 for 1 deal….

My Google Sketchup Pro had a friend that didn’t want to be in class by herself. LUCKILY, this girl was also quite knowledgeable with HTML. These students also had some previous Coding and Programming experience using the Hopscotch App. The girls worked together to divide the classes in half. They assisted each other for when it was their flipped class, and when it was their partners.

Sometimes they were the teacher, and sometimes they were the teacher’s assistant. Together, they both learned things about Google Sketchup and HTML coding. There was actual learning held by all, including all of the students and myself.

 

Ms Jada ran the other half of classes as she taught them HTML to design their own web site from scratch

 

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iTunes U Course : "Students As Content Creators" - my resources to make digital art

iTunes U Course: “Students As Content Creators”

iTunes U as a final project? What an honor to be one of twenty people in my school district that got invited to be part of this committee.

iTunes U direct link to : “Students as Content Creators”

If iTunes U has an opportunity to showcase the best of the best for my school district – what would go in there?  A selective group of people was asked this question as we brainstormed ideas on what the teachers in our county would need for technology infused staff developments.

I wanted my iTunes U course to focus on creativity, which is something the students and I have done for the past seven years. Luckily, I had blog posts going all the way back to 2010, so I was able to easily pull content from there for this project.

iTunes U course “Students As Content Creators” intro w/ a video

The rest of my course focuses on the main ideas on what to do with technology

“Students As Content Creators” categories:

• Digital Storytelling


• Film Production


• Animation


• Digitally Edit Photographs


• Gaming


• Sharing with Social Media


• Links to student work, such as with Hopscotch Programming 

iTunes U also features over courses from other district teachers

The other teachers in our group did an awesome job focusing on other needs for our district. Some of them designed courses around Smarboard Technologies, How to Incorporate Technology into the core classes. Tutorials on using Educreations within the Math Class. Technology use of High School Biology. Check out Horry County’s listing of Programs on the iTunes U store in iTunes.

iTunes U Horry County Schools lessons for Professional Development

All together, it was a great four days and we impressed each other as we designed these courses. Perhaps I will do some more in the future

How would you use iTunes U for your school or district?

 

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How to Program with Hopscotch - How do you get an App to Program Art

How to Program with Hopscotch? Read my article on Yahoo! Contributor Network

How to program animation in Hopscotch

A student programmed this in Hopscotch

How Do You Get an App to Code? How to Program with Hopscotch

Click the link above to read the full article on Yahoo! Contributor Network, OR scroll down for a sample…

This video showcases a collection of animations that my students programmed with the free Hopscotch app and how I collaborated with another school using Google Hangouts

How to program with Hopscotch was a simple choice

Over the years I have done a variety of projects that use animation and teach the students how to program. But, I’ll let my Hopscotch article about How to Program and make animation do a little explaining instead with this sample:

How to program on an iPad was something I Googled a few weeks ago. I came across this free application program called Hopscotch. But how do you get an app to code with students who have little or no experience? Luckily, the programming software was simple because:

• Students learn how to program by trial and error


• Dragging and dropping codes similar to Scratch programming software
  


• Students see how do you get an app to use Math terms with Art

How to Program on an iPad

In the past, I showed my students how to program with Scratch. The students could drag a command “to move” and snap it together for a grid destination. Watch their animations and see what they made. The problem is that Scratch is Flash based and previous students were frustrated with it. But now, that I am an iPad teacher; I need to find out how do you get an app to draw shapes and make geometric art?

Read the rest about How to Program on Yahoo

Want to learn more about Programming or Animation? My students have done a variety of projects. They have learned how to program using Gamestar Mechanic to design their own video games. They have also made simple animations using tools like Animation Creator and Toontastic.

I designed this custom thumbnail for my YouTube video, but clicking on it will take you right to my Yahoo! Contributor Network article

How to Program with Hopscotch - How do you get an App to Program Art

Technology in Education showcase of work in Sun News

Technology in Education : My interviews for using it in HCS

Joint technology events showcase work of students, professionals

Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/03/27/3406111/joint-technology-events-showcase.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

http://pinterest.com/pin/135882113729841086/

In the teacher category, Black Water’s Phillip Reeser and James Gorcesky demonstrated an app they created for the school, which they hope to eventually get on iTunes.

“It has a lot of information from a lot of different sources,” said Gorcesky, who teaches the school’s new media arts program, where students create art on iPads every day. “It’s all about constant updates, and it showcases what our students can do.”

This interview is based on the BWMS Mobile App that we created, you can download it and give us feedback on a previous post

The students and I were also photographed in the Sun News a month prior to when we were shown off for the BWMS Tech Fair

http://pinterest.com/pin/135882113729841158/

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/02/27/3353437/black-water-middle-tech-fair.html#http://media.myrtlebeachonline.com/smedia/2013/02/27/20/19/1sdJqV.St.78.jpeg

Speaking of the Tech Fair, check out this photo montage that I made up of the winners from the event. Our school was the most decorated middle school around:

 

Technology in Education showcase of work in Sun News

Test Post from The Art & Tech Teacher : lessons, classwork, creative writing & more

Test Post from The Art & Tech Teacher : lessons, classwork, creative writing & more http://arttechteacher.com/myblog