Digitizing Portraits in Sketchpad
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Students will consider how technologies have changed the way artwork is experienced. They will photograph an inspiring human or animal and digitally manipulate the photo to create a portrait of overlapping shapes using the editing application, Sketchpad.
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Students will consider how technologies have changed the way artwork is preserved, presented, and experienced.
Students will consider the ethical responsibility to oneself and others when taking, altering, and sharing images.
Students will demonstrate a willingness to experiment with digital software as a medium.
Teaching Strategies
- Discuss how technologies have changed the way artwork is preserved, presented, and experienced.
- Lead a discussion on the ethical responsibility to oneself and others when taking, altering, and sharing images.
- Demonstrate how photographs can be altered through experimentation with the Sketchpad application.
- Guide students in comparing and contrasting the original photographs with those altered using digital software.
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Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing.
VA:Cr2.1.8aDemonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the Internet, social media, and other communication formats.
VA:Cr2.2.7aReflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.
7.VA:Cr3Time Requirements
Teacher Prep Time
20 minutes
Demonstration Time
30 minutes
Student Studio Time
3 hours and 30 minutes
Supplies and Materials
- Picture-taking device
- Device with Sketchpad app
- Example images of digital portraits
National Standards
Create
Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing.
VA:Cr2.1.8aDemonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the Internet, social media, and other communication formats.
VA:Cr2.2.7aReflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.
7.VA:Cr3
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Analyze Digital Portraits
Analyze digital portraits and how technology has influenced art.
Brainstorm an influential person or animal to use as the subject.
Discuss the ethical responsibility to oneself and others when taking, altering, and sharing images.
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