Category: App

Keynote for iPad: Drawing Feature

6/30/2018

Drawing of Alodie Gossh using Keynote Drawing feature on iPad

I just started playing with the apps that I learned about during ISTE18 in Chicago. One that I'm really drawn to is an updated version of an old Apple app, Keynote. As of spring I learned from @karlyb that keynote had added a drawing feature to their iPad app. As I was searching this topic on twitter I found Mrs. Kellenberger's twitter feed showing student drawings like this one made using Keynote. She shared her tutorial that she made for her students (below) demonstrating a contour line drawing over a photo.

1. Bring in a photo in a new presentation in the Keynote iPad app. I like to go to the image editor and change the opacity to 50% so I can see my black lines better.

2. After I create a contour line drawing (see our funny Fugleflick about this kind of drawing) scoot the photo off to the side as a reference. Change it back to full opacity so you can use the eye dropper tool to select the actual colors for your portrait.

3. I used the fill tool for adding colors. I set the colors to semi-transparent so I could layer in base colors, highlights, and shadows. I like how the tool requires you to make a shape then it fills. Once you get the hang of it it's very quick and creates a loose painterly look. If I make a mistake I could hit undo or use the select tool to find the stroke and delete it.

4. You can export your project in a bunch of ways. What I like is the high quality png format for a still image. It looks like a vector drawing with clean edges that enlarges nicely. You can also export as a movie. To make the app replay your drawing you have to first click on the drawing, choose animate, and choose line draw then export.

Variation: Keep it simple

I really like the clean and loose look of the fill tool. I like the little edges of white that occur naturally when you try to make a shape to fill. I also like that when you keep the color semi-transparent, you can simply make shadows by layering the same color again over the shapes you had already made. It becomes darker the more the color is layered. It's fast, easy, and very effective.

You can make your art layered and detailed in this app or you can keep it simple and cartoonish. I like both. I think I'll be aiming towards portraits like these below with my students, at least at first.

Resource: Learn about Contour Line Drawing from Grandpa Pencil (Fugleflick)

Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

UPDATE: #KeynoteDrawingChallenge

Mrs. Kellenberger and I challenged Twitter folks to surprise people with a portrait using the drawing function in the Keynote app and challenge others to give it a try as well. I've been collecting their drawings in this Twitter Moment. Check it out!
Join in anytime and tag your art with #KeynoteDrawingChallenge & @fuglefun

Keynote Drawing Challenge

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Wild Things with Visual Texture

9/14/2016

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Click to see the gallery of finished art

First grade Wild Things inspired by the book "Where the Wild Things Are"

First graders are making a Wild Thing painting inspired by the book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. We've done this project in the past and it has been very popular. Below are two first graders I caught wearing their wild things in the art room. Their families purchased it from Artsonia's giftshop. How fun is that?!

Resources:

Wild Things by Tricia Fuglestad from Teaching Palette

Click here to see a gallery of student Wild Things on Artsonia.
Watch the Wild Things March across your screen in the movie below.

Wild Thing March from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Step-by-Step Wild Thing ppt
I have a 30 slide step by step powerpoint with instructions, media, links, and animations that you can use to guide your students through each step of creating a wild thing with visual texture in the style of the creatures featured in the book. Use this link to download.

Build a Wild Thing Game
I made a game for the interactive whiteboard that allows students to drag and drop eyes, nose, mouth, and hands into a Wild Thing body to help them visualize solutions for their artwork. You can download the game from this link and use it when you install MimioStudio (free).

 Visual Texture Worksheet
This worksheet is for students to invent and practice drawing the features of their wild thing's face and the visual texture that will cover it's body. Download the worksheet from this link

Visual Texture Fugleflick
To learn about visual texture (drawing something the way it would feel if you could touch it) is explained in this musical Fugleflick video created by first graders below.

Visual Texture from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Digital Warm Up:

Students used the Create A Monster App to invent their own digital monsters. See this gallery on Artsonia.

Digital Extensions:

To extend this lesson digital have student take a digital image of their finished work and speak through it using an app like iFunFace. They could describe their visual texture, say what makes them wild, or share a little known fact.

Or, students can pose as if they are with their wild thing using the Green Screen app by DoInk. The movie below was from many years ago using photoshop. This is soooo much easier to do with the app (whew!).

Wild Thing Bookmark

Now that students made a book inspired piece of art, it would make sence they put that art back into a book with a bookmark. Students can use this template I made below to layer on their wildthing using the superimpose app. I purchased 2" by 8" bookmark sleeves that these can be printed and placed into for safe keeping. Here are the steps:

Download bookmark template to camera roll
Download digital image of wild thing to roll.
Open superimpose app
Using the double squares button (top left) bring in the template from photos.
Click choose (no need to crop)
Using the same double squares button, bring in a foreground image (top layer of buttons) from the photos of your wild thing.
If it has a background to erasem use the mask tab tools (for example the magic wand erases fields of color, the paint brush erases, the eraser brings back the image).
Use the transform table to resize and place the wild thing at the bottom of the bookmark. Try not to cut off the arms and legs. Have it "stand" on the green ground.
Choose the house icon, share button, and add a drop shadow before you save to the camera roll.
Then upload to the dropbox and rename the image with your name.

Click HERE to view students' bookmarks

First graders made bookmarks with their artwork layered onto a template in Superimpose app

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Ideas for the One iPad Art Room

8/29/2015

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Graphic Organizers
Compare-a-Twist allows the teacher to set up a compare and/or contrast review game on any topic. Students drag the text or image to the correct side of the screen. Animations give immediate feedback to learners. Teachers can save their games and share them via google docs. Ideas: Sort primary/secondary colors Sort warm/cool colors. Sort images by genre.

Collaborative Art
Make a Monster App
Create a Monster App
Faces iMake
Art Doodles
Ideas: as students are individually sketching ideas for an upcoming art design, pass the ipad around the room and have each contribute to a class design. Watch it build on the screen through the projector.

Art Puzzles
Art Puzzles: Sliding Slices
Find an art puzzle that relates to the art subject or artist that your art project is based on. Let each student make one move until it's solved. Keep track of how many moves it takes to solve and see if they can beat other classes' scores.

Quizzes
You can make your own quizzes in Educreations or use a pre-made interactive quiz from the art section of BrainPop App.

Idea: pass the ipad from one group to the next giving them the first chance at getting the correct answer.

Interactive eBooks
Find an ebook that ties in nicely with what you're learning in art class. We made monsters from shapes . When finished I had student's take turns turning the page in There is a Monster at the End of this Book
starring Groover. We used a Finding Nemo interactive puzzle book to accompany our monochromatic fish lesson too.

Digital Portfolio

Don't forget that an ipad is a video camera and still camera too.
Photograph and upload art with the
Artsonia app
Use Evernote to collect images
Use Dropbox app to collect images

Let your ipad roam!
Mirror your ipad through your projector wirelessly with
Apple TV
AirServer
Reflector 2 App
Or use Quicktime (see this post)
Then pass the ipad around the room.
No wifi? You can create a closed network and still mirror your ipad with a laptop hooked up to a projector.

All class stop motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

All class movie

With one iPad, a tripod, and the iMotion HD app you can do an all class stop-motion animation that reinforces listening, collaboration, while introducing the stop-motion animation technique. See this post for more information.

Ready to Write Your Grant?

You are welcome to download my grant (below) based on many of the ideas from this post to help you get started on your grant for the art room. This was a district funded grant, but Donor's Choose also granted me an iPad. View that grant here.

grant_creating_on_ipads.pdf
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App Smashing Animation Party

4/22/2014

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Maggie won the iPad animation party in the Dryden raffle to raise money for ABC/25 Grant Foundation. She and her guests had an app smashing session while we transformed ourselves into flying fairies. See the lesson here. We used the iPad camera, Superimpose App , SketchbookX, DoInk Animation app, and the Google Drive to share our files. View the fairies on Artsonia here.

Maggie's Fairy Fun iPad Animation Party from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Making Memes

1/2/2014

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What better way to get a message out than to embed it into a visually interesting image? Social networks and media sources online are full of memes from others. Why not create your own? There are some easy iPad apps loaded with tools to help you.

Animated meme made in DOINK converted in Bloggif

Made in Retromatic App

Superimpose app & Rhonna Designs

Created with Path On app

Superimpose app & Keynote

Retromatic app

Superimpose App & Comic Life app

Superimpose & Sketchbook X

Procreate App & Rhonna Designs

Brushes App & Rhonna Designs

Retromatic App

Deco Sketch, SuperImpose, Rhonna Designs

Sketchbook Express and Retromatic

Superimpose app and Phonto

Adobe Draw and Phonto apps

Now, go change the world with your messages of bacon and other compelling things (but what can beat bacon?)

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More testing: Green Screen DOINK app

9/28/2013

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I'm very privileged to be on the BETA testing team for the Green Screen app from DOINK. Today I tried forcing an interaction between my pre-recorded green screen footage and the drawn animation layered before a solid color field. Here are the pieces:

This app will allow you to combine live footage and drawn animations.
I film before green screen
and draw an animation in DOINK
Below is a look at the interface of the new GREEN SCREEN app by DOINK.

The app right now works by pulling in any combination of video, images, or live feed on the three layers available. They are made transparent with the chroma filter.
The drawn animation video is created in the DOINK animation app. To time it to the pre-recorded green screen video, I had to plan the way they interacted ahead of time. I used a screenshot of the video (left) imported into DOINK while composing the fairy animation. then I deleted the photo and replaced it with a solid color field that I would "erase" with the chroma filter in the new app. This took a bit of thinking, but it's certainly is worth it!

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iPads + Web App=By George that's fun

2/20/2013

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Now that my 2nd grade students finished their amazing George Washington Portraits (view them here), we checked out the iPads for the day and put the images on a dollar bill using the Festisite money effect. Now that you can upload images on iPads to most websites and add images into emails we went ahead and tried all these steps on iPads... and it worked!
I had the class images in my dropbox with a link to the folder. Students just followed the steps below and clicked on my links to go where they needed. What was really easy was the link for my email address which you can find as a choice for a link in Weebly. That link auto-filled my email address so all the students had to do was add the photo and their names in the subject line.

Put your portrait on the dollar bill
1. Find your picture here.
2. Save it to your camera roll
3. Click on this link to put it on the dollar bill.
4. Save it to the camera roll.
5. Send me your dollar bill image here.

See the whole gallery here.

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Digital Custom Collages on iPads

2/7/2013

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I'm looking for a way to create a class photo collage project where we can add our custom pieces, share them, rotate, resize, overlay, change opacity, and erase parts.
I think MIXEL app used to do this until they changed their format. Muse app is close to what I want except for the customization.
I played with these ideas from my own sources of images in Sketchbook X (and Brushes app). It works, but there may already be an app that makes this easier. Any ideas?

Here is how I started. I imported Edward Hopper's Nighthawks into the Brushes app and color matched and texture matched until I could rub away two of the characters.
Here is my finished file.
Then I pulled in pngs from my collection on layers that I could transform.

Tried Justaposer app for this collage. It does limit you to two images but that's all I wanted for this odd juxtaposition.

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The disaster that didn't happen

9/27/2012

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Do you see that shelf of binders? (I know, I love binders but that's a different story). It FELL yesterday. It completely collapsed and spilled out binders all over the counter.
This happened yesterday and not today with all our clay mask projects lined up to dry.(WHEW!!!)

We are a lucky bunch of artists here at Dryden. Thank you Mr. Bob for putting our shelf back up this morning so everything could find a place again.

We poured so much artistry into our clay masks. They are irreplaceable. Take a look at some of the 5th graders at work below.

When we were all cleaned up we tried making a collaborative clay mask on the ipad.
I quickly popped it under our iPevo camera and started up the free app, 123D Sculpt.
I just learned about it over the weekend and had made a demo video to show students some of the things it can do.

View my tutorial video here or below.

To the left is a student sculpting digitally as the class watches on the big screen. After she makes her mark, she will call up another student to make theirs.
I caught some of this on camera. Watch it below.

123D Sculpt from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

UPDATE! All of the 5th grade finished clay sculptures are now on our Online Art Gallery on Artsonia. View them in this exhibit.

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Creating on iPads ~ handouts

8/14/2012

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I created a page on my website dedicated to helping teachers get started with creating on iPads. It has links to resources, files, videos, tutorials, and art galleries to help you through the process. I added some handouts today with a bit more detail to help things along. Download the pdf here.

I recommend starting with this icebreaker activity to help you explore the painting tools, get a feel for the stylus, and trouble shoot Brushes app until it is doing what you want it to do.

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This activity uses the Brushes app. This is a nice project to help create a collaborative piece of art while learning digital tools and refreshing your figure drawing skills. You will need my template to get started.
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You will need a couple of my files and the Brushes app again for this technique. I also have a video that will help you see what this looks like in the classroom.
This technique can be used for any sketching activity when students need to look closely.
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This graphic design technique is so easy that you'll start to wonder if anyone would pull out the laptops and try to layer in photoshop with elementary students ever again.View the video of students working. Grab hat. Grab a sample of healthy choices.
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This project was a grand slam with my fifth graders. This technique is spelled out in this post. I put together a sample set of images to practice with taken from a 4 second video with at 12 fps rate. So give it a try.

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My third graders LOVED learning to create an animation using a flip book technique with onion skinning which sounds complicated, but trust me, you'll catch on really quick. View my tutorial. See my students at work

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Have fun creating on iPads. Don't forget all these resources and more are on the Creating on iPads page.

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