Taking Creative Control: Photo Manipulation @Hudson

Inspiration:

How do you take a pre-existing image and make it your own?

What kind of flair can you bring to shift the mood/tone of the image you chose?

 Task:

1. Everyone will claim an image to manipulate from the front table, grab a sheet of cardstock and glue their image down

2. Using Acrylic markers, start to define what shapes you want to modify/simplify to create a new character or vibe - focus on the big shapes first, we will add detail later

3. Once you have your bigger shapes mapped out, start to explore what kinds of texture/pattern you want to fill each of those shapes with - feel free to grab your pattern play sheet to support you.

We will have 2 days to complete this mini project.

Pattern Play @HHSLT

 Day 1: Pattern Play

Step 1 - Fold your paper into 4 sections

You will have about 7 minutes per section to fill each

Section 1: Make a squiggle and build off of it

   

Section 2: Make simple/random shapes and build out around them

 

Section 3: Make Fire/Lightning/Star/Fire-Work shapes and build out around them

Section 4: Drips! Make sure you have multiple overlapping shapes

Day 2+3 - Putting it together

Step 1: Trace a bunch of overlapping shapes onto cardstock

Each tiny section will be filled with a different pattern - make sure that similar patterns are NOT touching each other! Vary the colors and styles from section to section to have a more visually arresting outcome.

 

Some other inspiration:

Day and Night Double-Sided Masks with PS288

 Day 1: The Sun

Tell me everything you know about the sun! 

What does it do? 

Where does it live? 

How does it behave? 

What does it look like?

How different Artists imagine the Sun:

Day 2: The Moon

Tell me everything you know about the Moon! 

What does it do? 

Where does it live? 

How does it behave? 

What does it look like?

How different Artists imagine the Moon:

Monster Jam @PS288 4th grade

 What is a Monster? 

How do we know? What are some clues?

Recognizing shape, form and texture through familiar imagery - Building skills around visual language + how to manipulate materials + motor skills to translate it into physical form/artistic expression. The subject for this project (monsters) allows the students to be experts about the WHAT, to help support their creative development and give them their own internal sense of direction as they explore HOW to make their vision real.

Materials: Pre-traced cardstock, scissors, glue sticks, different kinds of paper, string

Designing our own Monster Masks

What kinds of Monster details are we going to use?

Do you want your monster to be:

+ Friendly

+ Scary

+ Silly

+ Shy

+ Something else I didn't think of

Do you want you monster to have:

+ Scales

+ Feathers

+ Hair

+ Spikes

+ Something I forgot

Here are some Monster Mask Examples to get us inspired: