Disciplines: Art/Technology/Computers
NYS Learning Standards:
Standard 1: Creating, performing, and participating in the arts
Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials resources
Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of arts
Standard 4: Understanding the cultural dimensions and contributions of the arts
Performance indicators evident in this exercise:
1-a-Produce comprehensive and well organized commencement portfolios
of their work.
1-b-Reveal through their work a broad investigation of a variety of individual ideas and at least one theme explored imaginatively and in depth.
1-c-Give evidence that they have developed an emerging personal style.
1-d-Use selected mediums and techniques and select the most appropriate mediums and techniques to communicate their ideas.
2-a-Develop Commencement Portfolios that show proficiency in one or more mediums and skill in using and manipulating the computer and electronic media.
2-b-Prepare a Portfolio that meets the admission requirements of selected institutions.
2-c-Understand the preparation required for particular art professions and acquire some skills of those professions through internships with local galleries, museums, advertising agencies, architectural firms, and other institutions.
3-a-Using the language of art criticism, describe the visual and functional characteristics of works of art and interpret the relationships of works of art one to another, to describe the impact of the work on the viewer.
4-a-Present a body of work within their portfolios that reflects the influence of a variety of cultural styles.
Exercise Description
Brief Summary:
Students will create a self-portrait from a scanned image using Clarisworks 5.0 software and Photoshop 3.0. The resulting self-portrait will be one of a series of three portraits in different media.
Materials:
Software: Clarisworks Painting 5.0, Photoshop 3.0
self-portrait drawings
Context: prior learning, total curriculum, learning in other disciplines, age appropriate learning
Basic computer knowledge, understanding the basics of portraiture, sketching and prior practice in drawing a self-portrait, providing a finished self-portrait drawing in pencil to be scanned.
Student Activity:
1.) Students will transform, rearrange and alter their scanned self-portrait image using Clarisworks Painting 5.0 and Photoshop 3.0. Some examples of changes that could be made are:
A.) Students may add color, value and vary intensity of color within their scanned images.
B.) Students may choose to alter their image by abstraction of the original drawing.
C.) Students may change the background of their work and add images to the original work.
Knowledge Guiding Practice: (general knowledge, multiple pathways to learning, problem solving abilities, critical thinking, cultural investigations) which contribute to a deeper understanding of the arts.
1.) Show students examples of completed self-portraits.
2.) Self-evaluation and ongoing evaluation of image as it is being changed.
Assessment Tools and Evidence:
Tools: ongoing evaluations, Rubrics, self-evaluations
Evidence: actual artwork, self-evaluations
Teacher Reflections/Follow-up: Rubrics, final critique and evaluation of project.
NY State Education Department Arts Resource Guide
