Category: Falling

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.

Step One: Learning the Color Wheel

Students practiced creating a color wheel with a rotationally symmetrical design inside. They needed practice with rulers, rotational symmetry, how to fill in the color wheel with secondary colors between each of the primary colors that mix to make it.

We used the Dot Day Quiver sheets to add an extra "dimension" to our practice since we were able to see the color wheels lift off the paper to rotate (and other effects) through the magic of augmented reality (using the Quiver app).

These Ss said the had never seen #augmentedReality before @quivervision #Arvrinedu #artsed #DotDay pic.twitter.com/6YniMcZgfF
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) September 7, 2018

Step Two: Geometry and Symmetry

I made 60º angled wedges for students to use to prep their color wheel circles. We did the math: a circle is 360º. We can divide it by 6 (3 primaries & 3 secondaries) by making six 60º sections.

I learned that the 3rd graders really needed a concrete way to understand rotational symmetry so I pulled out manipulatives (aka foam shapes) that they could arrange and trace 6 times.

Then we labeled each of the six spaces with our secondaries in between the two primaries that mix to make it and double checked that our design was rotationally symmetrical.

Step Three: Primaries and Complements

Painting neatly in this project is very important since the color wheel should always have bold clean colors in a specific order. We watched our STAY NEAT video and sang along to prep for our painting steps.

We filled the primary colors first. Then, reached across the color wheel to paint the negative space of the complementary color (opposite color).

We painted as neatly and completely as possible trying not to mix wet paint together to keep our color bold and clean. Warning: complementary colors mix to make brown.

Step Four: Painting Patterns

Painting neat patterns with thin brushes over dry paint takes practice.

I created this guide to help students think about how to PULL their paint brush to produce clean thin patterns instead of pushing, dabbing, or scrubbing.

Get inspired about patterns with the REPEAT Fugleflick (warning, the song is very addictive-but luckily there is a karaoke version on my website if you can't get enough).

ONLY THREE PATTERNS were needed to complete this design.

Step Five: Presentation of Physical Art

Our national standards for art education include presentation. Students need to think about how to prepare their art to present it as complete. We will use our BLACK MARKER to help redefine the six wedges of the color wheel while hiding our sloppy paint edges after getting inspired by our art room superhero, Black Marker!

Student examples: View the gallery

Step Six: Digital Extension

Students are going to learn about rotation and the illusion of depth using size to create a falling animation using two apps: Superimpose and Do Ink Animation App. The first step is prepping the still image of a student falling using the superimpose app.

Pose as if falling with green screen

Erase green and save as transparent PNG

Photo (PNG) of finished color wheel with transparent background using Superimpose app

Set the figure to be large at 0 seconds

Set the figure small at 2 seconds

Set one object to rotate clockwise and the other counter clockwise

Student Animations

3-1 Falling Animation from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

3-2 Falling Animation from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

3-3 Falling Animation from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

3-4 Falling Animation from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Resources:

This Fugleflick helps students remember some strategies for staying neat while painting.

How to Stay Neat from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

This flag animation is the complementary colors of the American Flag. Stare at the numbers as the count up to 20. This will saturate your eye's rods and cones with orange, green, and black. When the time is up it will flip to a blank white slide where you will see an after image of red, white and blue (complementary colors).

Complementary in Every Way is a lovely Fugleflick video that introduces color theory including primaries, secondaries, and complementary colors through a sweet love story.

Complementary in Every Way from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Repeat from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Black Marker from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, falls down a rabbit hole. Look at how she appears to change in size to create the illusion of depth. Our falling animation is similar. We will be large in the foreground and smaller in the background. We will spin one way while our color wheel op art spins the other way (clockwise or counter clockwise).

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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.