The Art Lady

   Showing my age here but I remember making ASCII artworks back in the 1980's and thinking how cool they were. They look very basic now compared to digital images I have seen. I think students will like making a drawing and then converting it into letters, numbers and symbols. Its a simple artmaking activity that introduces kids to digital artmaking techniques. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. First thing to do is to have students make a drawing using lines. I find that drawing with lines works best when converting the image into ASCII art later on. 2. Students need to select ONE of the following Resource Images and base their drawing on that. 3. Students will create their drawing using graph paper. The structured patterning of lines, large and small squares adds to the "technology" appearance of the finished drawing. ART APPRECIATION:

I did a day's casual work last week with a gorgeous Year 3/4 class. Such a great bunch of little people. They worked so hard all day and I think it shows in their artworks. Well done to the students of Year 3/4 at Windsor South Public School, N.S.W, Australia...…    I have included the INSTRUCTIONS for this artwork to save you times, scrolling back through all the posts. I posted this artwork ages ago but it never fails to be a success every time I presented to students. You could substitute the dog images for any other subject matter and I think the artwork would still turn out well. For example, portraiture and Cubism.

   This is the second artwork I created using binary code as my inspiration. Students will draw a koala using only a "0" and a "1" to create the texture of fur and tone. We will need to do some practise drawing but I think they will enjoy the challenge.    This could be the end of the artmaking process but my aim here is to introduce students to ways of making digital artworks, starting with a drawing (traditional artmaking technique).    I left the image as full colour. Using WORDFOTO, an Apple app on my iPad, I turned the drawing into a digital artwork using the binary code. WordFoto is so easy to use and allows you to import your own words and symbols. ***************************************************************** Here, I turned the image into black and white before importing it into WORDFOTO. Again, I used the binary code numerical system of 0 and 1 only. *******************************************************************************

   I hate being sick but I created two new artworks that I will introduce to my Stage 3 students in Term 4.     The first artwork uses Photoshop 7 which is a really old version. I always use this program with the kids as it is extremely user friendly and enables them to learn a few basics like layering without getting confused with the pretty interfacing.    I first learned how to use Photoshop using Photoshop 7 and my Year 12 Photography students taught me. You are never too old to learn things and a "teacher" can be anyone who has the patience to show you how to do it. Believe me, those poor students really needed to have patience with me!!!    Anyway, in my school, we are finishing up the year with Science: Digital Technologies and this is the artwork for my students...…    I still have to draw on some circuit designs in silver, gold or bronze fine tip Posca pens, do some shading with  black, gold and silver coloured pencils and add in some details with bla