A Sampling of Awesome GIFs

Below you can find a few impressive GIFs made by the high school Visual Art and Technology class. Some of these GIFs were simply experiments -- an effort to get students familiar with the process. Others were for their midterm.

Their midterm project was two-fold: they had to create a work of art in a medium of their choice. While they were making their art, they were to document its creation with photographs. These photographs turned into a GIF (in essence, a digital flipbook). Thus, they had two works of art for their midterm: their actual art, and their GIF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art From Home

Below is a selection of art students made at home (and brought in to show me) during this semester. Enjoy!

6th grade robots made from electronics parts.

7th grade wire flute.

8th grade ice sculptures.

7th grade silhouettes (cut paper and watercolor).

7th grade silhouettes close-up (cut paper and watercolor).



Collaboration GIFs: I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean

The high school Visual Art and Technology class recently teamed up with a second grade art class to create the below masterpieces. The second graders read I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean, by Kevin Sherry, and painted the below squids as a visual response. My class animated them!

Tomorrow we are Skyping with the little ones so we can talk about our respective experiences!

 

By Jordan and Glenn

 

 

 

By Lillian and Eva

 

By John and Noah

 

By Miles and Max

 

By Mrs. T and Sarah

 

By Neal and Cassandra

 

By Rachel and Mackenzie

 

 

By Tyler and Jillian

 

By Violet and Alysia

 

 

 By John and Erick

 

 

By Adrianna and Nate

 

 

By Tom and Sara

 



Wire Art

The seventh grade unit on continuous contour drawing (drawing using only one line), was wrapped up this week with a wire project. Students easily grasped the similarities: "Wire's like line, only 3D," they said.

For this project, students were able to create anything they wanted out of wire. They had to figure out how to plan (usually with a drawn outline), manipulate, and structure their project on their own, or with a partner.

I asked the two girls who created the below wire guitar to write about what they learned from this project. They wrote: "Having an outline [for our wire project] really helped. We made a guitar because we both wanted to incorporate music into our wire project. Using wire made contour drawing easier and make more sense, because wire makes you think about how your lines really connect."

Wire guitar!

Wire flute!

 

Wire snake!

 

 

 Wire snake close up!

Backwards Day

Today, an 8th grader brought in an iPad, on which she had a new "reverse video maker" app. Whatever we recorded, it would play backwards. Using the app, we experimented with drawing on the board and erasing it, pouring out a bottle of water, eating a cookie (gross, but cool), pulling my scarf out from under a pile of egg cartons, as well as knocking over said egg cartons with a yard stick.

After class, the student added music and emailed me the video. It's pretty cool! At some point, I would love to do a real project using this app.

Here are two of the videos. They kids got a real kick out of it (as did I):