Our first day of forced perspective was spent reviewing one and two point perspective and introducing the concept of forced perspective. Then it was time to unleash the kiddos to brainstorm, plan and get inspired. There were so many cool images to view that even though their galleries only require 6 final, edited images, the photo shoot lists were into the 20s! The next few days were spent indoors and out shooting images. There were some weird looks from passersby and fellow students as we pretended to "fall" from a wall and cracks in the sidewalk and pretended to be thrown and squished by large rocks, objects and feet...the things you do for great art :) The following day was spent choosing final images to turn in. editing and putting effects like Color Splurge into the images. Check back next week to see all images in our ART 8 Gallery
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After playing with perspective on paper and becoming almost experts at cityscapes, country roads and school hallways, ART 8 students are going to showcase their knowledge of perspective in an unusual medium-duct tape. Our school hallways will soon be filled with giant duct tape 1-point and 2-point small group perspective pieces. Students are still responsible for creating correct perspective and for making sure all perspective rules are followed but they get to go big, go bright and liven up the school with a super fun medium. Check out our progress below! day one: group planningDAY TWO: claiming our spaces and starting our piecesART 8 staked our claims in the hallways this morning to start our giant duck tape perspectives. Groups each chose a color they wanted and got started. Each group is given a couple yardsticks, one roll of duck tape and some scissors. This is the summative assessment of our perspective unit so I offer no help and get to enjoy watching the pieces add a bit of depth to our 2-dimensional hallways. days three, four, five: constructing our piecesART 8 students are moving onto perspective for the next couple weeks. This is either a hit or a big miss with students :) Some love the order, precision and neatness, other despise the exact nature of this technique. Either way, it is an important concept to learn about and requires careful thinking and higher thinking skills. Most students don't realize they interact with perspective daily. This series of exercises, mini projects and final group project will take the next couple weeks and will introduce students to one-point and two-point perspective. To introduce the concept, students jumped right in and after looking at real-life examples, started a cityscape. They did this for two days- one for each perspective. We viewed simple YouTube videos (that you can view below) to get us started.
After practicing our one and two point perspective for a couple days, ART 8 students are experimenting with forced perspective. Forced Perspective is an optical illusion technique mostly used with photography. To create an optical illusion, photographers and subjects vary the distances from the camera of objects and people. ART 8 students are using our IPads from the JCF for this first digital project. Today was an outdoor shooting day and the groups of 3-4 got to play around with many ideas and props. The kids had a ton of fun and were really excited to utilize our new technology! The final group galleries of 6 images will be posted in our ART 8 Gallery next week upon completion of the project. Check out the Resources page of our website for online examples of forced perspective photos. art 8 at workBelow you will see ART 8 students at work on the IPads editing their forced perspective photos and outside doing their photo shoots.
Our next project in ART 8 has us dabbling with perspective. On Thursday of this week, students were introduced to 1-point, 2-point and forced perspective. We then had some practice with 1-point perspective with the help of Mr. Ben Saber and his super simple, yet informative YouTube video. You can see his video by clicking the button below. Next week we will try a 2-point perspective drawing, courtesy of Mr. Saber again. Choose a perspective we like, create our own drawings, then use our new IPads from the JCF to photograph forced perspective compositions. |
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