One of the ways I love to integrate technology is by extending physical art creation with a digital element. This idea relies heavily on both physical art and digital manipulation since it begins with drawing and ends with animation. Here are the results below:
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First graders are learning about the parts of an insect (head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, wings, and six legs) as they design super cute critters.
Transition from physical to digitalView the Gallery of Critter Sketches here
I photographed the drawing sheet after students traced their design with black marker and erased their pencil lines. Then I cropped the text from the sheet and adjusted the brightness and contrast until each little critter became a clean black and white design.
Coloring in Colorscape App
Students learned to download their drawings from the dropbox and import them into the Colorscape app. They explored the tools and digitally colored their art. View the finished insects in our Artsonia Gallery here.
Making these critters fly in Do Ink App
1-1 Flying Critters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. 1-2 Flying Critters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. 1-3 Flying Critters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. 1-4 Flying Critters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. 1MA Flying Critters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. View a similar project:
Third graders, a few years back, made anti-litterbugs that cleaned up our community as they flew around Arlington Heights. See my post for details.
Drawing a nesting doll design
Animating the nesting dollIn order to animate the nesting doll I needed to have the image saved on my camera roll of the iPad as a PNG with a transparent background. The Do Ink animation app gives you the option to save the image this way. I used the Superimpose app to make a top and bottom image of the nesting doll so I could animate it. I used the mask tab and square tool to select and delete the bottom half then save it with "mask as png". Then I hit the "undo" button to restore the image and select and delete the top half and save it the same way.
Observational Drawing, Literacy, & Tech
Third graders are working on an observational drawing of themselves wearing a Cat-in-a-Hat Hat and bow holding their favorite Dr. Seuss book. These photos were taken using the Green Screen App by Do Ink to magically add the hat. I printed the photos to the copier so students could use it for a 1:1 size drawing. Since their drawing was the same size as the photo, they cut them out and traced the edges. I taught them some measuring and looking tricks to help them translate what they saw into a contour line drawing.
Students spent 3 class sessions working on making these observational drawings, tracing them in sharpie marker, then erasing all hints of the pencil line sketch. They were then photographed and enhanced with high contrast filters. View their gallery on Artsonia.
View Student Sketches on ArtsoniaColoring these Sketches Digitally
Students are using the Colorscape app on the iPads to color these drawings. This app allows you to color over a black and white drawing without losing your black lines.
Finished Colored Cat-in-a-hat-ified ArtBookmarksResources: two useful Fugleflicks
These drawings are considered contour line drawings since they do not include value or shading. View Drawing from Experience to hear how Grandpa Pencil explains contour line drawing to Baby Pencil (fresh from the box).
Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Observational drawing is a skill that will make any student more observant. It activates the mathematical side of your brain as you translate the what you see into what you draw. It requires a lot of concentration but the results can be very exciting to young artist as they start to create likeness. View Observational Drawing for a quick lesson.
Observational Drawing from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Similar Project: Photo Booth Version
Before we had iPads and the Green Screen App we did a similar project using photo booth on the classroom desktop mac. I made a custom effect that put a hat and bow on each student when they came up for a still picture to the machine. We printed this and then free hand drew from our imagination what the rest of our body would look like holding a Dr. Seuss book. As you could imagine, we struggled with likenesses even more since we had less information to look at for accurate drawings. See the gallery of work.
Cat in the Hat Promo 1 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Digital Extension: Bookmarks
These designs would look awesome as bookmarks. See what we've done in the past.
Five young animators met with me on Monday after school for one hour to learn to fly. Second grader, Sophie, won the iPad animation party prize offered through the Dryden Fundraising Raffle before spring break. She and 4 friends learned how to turn themselves into fairies that fly across the flower garden using 3 different apps on our art room iPads. Sophie's iPad Party from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Don't have to go to Paris to see it!
I just learned by watching a news story on our local PBS station that Whistler's Mother will be on display at the Art Institute of Chicago at the same time that I will be taking my 4th graders there for a field trip. This painting is iconic. I have put this in the category of "famous and important" ever since I was introduced to it as an art student in school. Since I've never been to Paris I had never had the opportunity to view it in person until now. I'm so excited about having the chance to see this piece in person finally! The only draw back is that the Art Institute loaned out the American Gothic in its place. Luckily, it will return by the start of summer but that is when Whistler's Mother will head back to France.
Fun fact: Buried beneath a layer of paint and behind our lego mural wall in Dryden's hallways is a very old replica of Whistler's Mother made by young artists long ago. Perhaps one day it will be uncovered. Parodies of Whistler's Mother
This artwork is so iconic that it has shown up in many pop culture parodies or spoofs:
Interacting with the painting
As a fun way to introduce and familiarize my 4th grade students with the painting, I thought I would mask out the mother and allow them to become the primary subject. I used the Procreate App on the iPad to paint over her while trying to match the colors and textures of the original painting. Using this masked image, students will be able to enter the artwork with the Green Screen App by Do Ink to make a still image or video. It would be interesting to reflect on how they change the mood and story as they compare it to the original.
I spent my first day of Spring Break in West Bloomfield, Michigan working with a lovely group of teachers on iPad creation and STEAM ideas for fine arts and technology. All my lesson ideas are on this growing smore flyer. There are over 185 so far so I use a numbering system to refer to them as in my handout for the workshop below:
I was fortunate enough to attend and present at the National Art Education Conference in NYC this pas week. I went to fascinating sessions, networked with some amazing art educators from around the country, and had the chance to share our iPad animation lessons with others through my presentation.
I got through slide 90 of 150 during my presentation of Elementary iPad Animation. I have way too much to share on this topic right now (which I think is pretty exciting). I have been updating
<<<this online flyer>>> with my lesson ideas here. This handout is pointing back to the numbered lessons from the flyer where you can find "how tos" and resources.
Or download the handout as a PDF here.
I first saw this idea from this Tweet from Mrs. Dweck. The "blinkie" concept is to use pre-made animations that play from youtube (like this one) underneath drawings to bring them to life. I immediately began to think about making this concept more creation-based for both the physical art and digital animation. I began playing with the DoInk Animation and Drawing App to make simple white animations over a black background customized for the art I wanted to create.
Animated Glow below a physical drawing on paper----Animation drawn in DoInk app The solution I developed is very simple. I dreamt up an idea that blends a physical drawing with a glowing animation. I thought of things that glow like a lightning bug, sparkler, a phone, buttons on a machine, stars in the sky, etc... Then I drew a picture with a blank area for the glowing thing(s). Afterwards, I took out the iPad and used DoInk Animation app's drawing mode to make a white animation over a black background. To make it move I used the flipbook technique where you draw movement one slide at a time. Then in the composition mode I resized the animation and placed it in the portion of the screen that best corresponded with the physical drawing that will overlay the animation. What is really interesting about this animated glow idea is that it not only combines physical and digital art, it requires an interaction of the two to enjoy it or a documentation of that interaction via video or gif. Animated Glow set to musicI put the video clips into iMovie, used the white balance filter to remove the yellow tint, and set the small video to a piece of royalty free music from incompetech to tell a story. The following ideas are so image specific that I photographed the drawing, added it to a bottom layer in DoInk drawing app, and drew over it to make the animation. The photo doesn't export with the animation, so this technique is a easy way to place the glowing animation in the correct locations. Lesson idea:Students will learn to draw their profile and out stretched hand (physically) and make a flipbook style animation of a glowing alien (digitally). Then then will create a video of the alien glowing from the iPad as if it is standing on the person's hand in the drawing.
Drawing the Profile and Hand:There are a few ways to approach the profile and hand drawing. One is to have students pose for a photo. They would then load the photo to the bottom layer of an iPad drawing app and do a contour line drawing of their portrait. These would then be printed out to use with the animated glow effect. The other idea is to use the handout I made below to help students draw a profile and hand from shapes and observation. This drawing would then be traced in black marker and used for the animated glow.
Tutorial: Animated Glow AlienAnimated Glow: Tutorial from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Here is a preview of our Animated Glow Lesson using the above animation and finished student profile drawings. Student Results: 4-1 Class Animations below or here4-2 Class Animations below or here4-3 Class Animations below or here4-4 Class Animations below or hereResources: book and song
Resources: Drawing aliens
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