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Op Art Painting and Falling Animation

10/7/2018

My third graders are going to explore the primary & secondary colors, complementary colors, patterns, rotational symmetry, while learning the geometry of a circle in these color wheel paintings. Then they will be compared to op art as students rotate and digitally fall into them using Do Ink drawing and animation app on the iPad.

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FALL animations

5/10/2016

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Image by Keith Haring

I have been playing with ideas for making animations that teach multiple art concepts to students. This idea covers:
Figure drawing in the style of Keith Haring
Complementary Colors
Line & Shape pattern
Relative size to show Depth
Animation in layers
Rotation for optical illusion

The animation begins by drawing to objects in the DoInk Animation App.
Both objects need to be a complementary color pairs (red/green), (purple/yellow), (orange/blue)
1. The first object is a circle with lines that converge at the center. I used a spiral, but the lines could also radiate out/in with straight, jagged, curving, bumpy, (whatever) lines.
2. The second object is a figure drawing in the style of Keith Haring. This figure is a solid color with a shape pattern in the complement. I used circles but you can use squares, diamonds, hearts, ovals, flowers, leaves, (whatever) shapes.

The two objects are then layered in the composition mode of the DoInk app. I stretched them both out to 6 seconds and set opposite direction rotations on each.
Then I altered the size of the figure so that it began full size and ended almost so tiny that it disappeared.
The lesson is designed to help students see that complementary colors are extra vibrant in your eyes. The rotation of the lines as they converge into the center create an optical illusion that adds depth to the image. The shrinking of the figure creates the illusion of depth as if he/she is falling. Below is video:

Variation of the idea:

This was my first attempt at this animation idea. In this animation I used the Kaleido Free app to draw lines converging to the center. The app allows you to save your drawing as a movie. To layer the figure and the movie I used the Green Screen App by DoInk.

Here is another Keith Haring iPad art idea I had using the Wooden Doll app on the iPad. Check it out here.
Also, you're going to want to show this Fugleflick to your students to introduce Complementary Colors:

Complementary in Every Way from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Hypno Bot (another variation)

Pretty much anything can fall, rotate, and shrink away. Here is a 5th grader's robot falling over two layers of images. One layer is a semi-transparent rotating spiral and the other is a geometric patterned design.

The Quick Version:

Since you can animate photos using the DoInk Animation App, I think this variation on the idea may be the fastest one. Students will pose as if they are falling (in front of green screen). Then they will draw an optical illusion circle (like a spiral design). This will be photographed also.