Art  Technology
Objectives:
  • We will establish a rationale for technology in art
  • We will review the scope and sequence of art and technology
  • We will explore and devise planned instructional activities that support the art curriculum K-12.
  • We will become familiar with the basic tools and features of Photoshop Elements and PowerPoint as art production media.
THIS IS THE PROPOSED SCOPE AND SEQUENCE FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY AT NORTH ALLEGHENY SCHOOLS
 

Scratchboard

  • Create a new picture
  • Paint and color
  • Layer
  • Eraser tool
  • Saving and saving for the web

Tutorial

 

 

A4

 

Charcoal
  • Using a background layer
  • Creating toned "paper" with texture filters
  • Shadow and highlight layers
  • Smudge tool, Eraser tool

Tutorial

texture

 

 

Collage

  • Source material (virtual magazine bin)
  • Dragging images from the web
  • Select, cut and paste
  • Moving and transforming
  • Image enhancement
  • Filters
  • Dodge, burn, blur, sharpen
  • Blending layers

More info, examples and resources

 

PowerPoint

 Love it or hate it, PowerPoint is ubiquitous.  Let's see how we can use, abuse and subvert it to our purposes.

PowerPoint Animation Example

PowerPoint for Art Teachers this takes a little while to load

Resource Pictures

Picture Editing in Photoshop

This is what we have done

Publishing to the web