Sand Art

Let's see if you love this video. You can practice it on the beach, but, if you cannot wait for that, use a table and flour, although I'm afraid it will not be the same.

If you want more information about this Israeli artist, Ilana Yahav, take a look to her work, you can visit her website here.

Did you enjoy? Let´s see another one:

Now, it´s your turn.

Be a sand artist

I know that it is not the same, but there is an online software to create your own sand picture. Its name is  thisissand. Use the mouse to start and the sand begins to fall. To change the colour use the letter "C" in your keyboard, to erase what you have done use the letter "E", and with the arrows you will use the different colours you have selected before. Try, its funny!

More about SAND ART:

• Colourful rock formations in China. Real!!!! 

• Land Art and sculptures by Jim Denevan.
• Crafts with sand. 
  
• Rangolis:

 

Lines in Art: Picasso

Lesson: Picassian Lines on Google Sites

Picasso was a Spanish painter (Málaga 1881-1973). He is widely known for co-founding CUBISM (CUBIST Movement).
More about Picasso.

Pablo picasso from nivaca2

You are going to learn how to create a portrait in Picasso´s double face style. Follow the instructions and... I'm not going to stop the video, so...

LET'S DO IT!



Part 2
More ideas: Clay Picasso faces

• Picasso Memory. Based on Picasso's masterpieces at "Museo Picasso de Barcelona".
• Picasso puzzle. "Las Meninas de Picasso". Jigsaw puzzle.
• Picassohead. Be a digital Picasso. After getting to know the tool, you will have to draw a portrait similar to that one you have handmade previously following the video instructions. You Placan do it in black line or in colours, it's your choice. When finished, sign it and save it on to the gallery using a name beginning with SARAMAGO, your course and group and your name and the first letter of your surname. For example: SARAMAGO1DRosaF. That will be the way I will find your tasks. Of course, you can also use my email.

Animation

PIVOT STICKFIGURE ANIMATOR. Here it comes!.

Pivot Stickfigure Animator (usually shortened to Pivot) is a freeware application, for Windows, that allows users to create stick-figure animations, and save them in the animated GIF (Graphics Interchangeable Format) format used on web pages and, which can also be converted into videos using other software, such as Windows Movie Maker (and include music, sounds...).

Link to download Pivot Stickfigure Animator. Clicking here you will be able to install the software at home. It is an .exe fiel and you only have to execute it and click by default in every option.

 

Some examples on youtbe:

What do you REALLY see? Optical illusions

1. Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds.

2. Turn to face a blank, light coloured surface (ceiling or wall).

3. Blink repeatedly and quickly.

4. Now... what do you see?

• A Kahoot! game: teacher - students

What do you REALLY see? Based on these tantalizing optical illusions, let's discover what type of optical perception you have! Take the quizzes below and find out what your perception says about you:
• Test 1
• Test 2
• Can your brain pass this optical illusion test?
• Only People With Perfect Color Vision Can Read These Words. Can you?

More:

• Interactive optical illusions.
• Practice optical illusions with educacionplastica.net. (Spanish)
• Color and contrasts with educacionplastica.net. (Spanish)
• Everything about optical illusions.
• 95 Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions.
• Visit "Museo de las Ilusiones Ópticas" en Barcelona.

Your digital Picassian portraits

Padlet to upload your Picassohead artworks

The DOT, by Peter H. Reynolds

The dot

Story by Peter H. Reynolds, motion Piece by Pat Malley

Story in Spanish

Now... it's your turn:

The Dot Quiz

Digital Typography

First of all... a game for all the group:

Alphabets - Typography on PhotoPeach

And now, some interactive activities:

Activities for the computer room

• Look, you will be able to build your name using letters from Flickr. Look at my name:

 

If you want to build yours, this is the link: http://metaatem.net/words/. You only have to write the name in the white box, click on "spell" and you will get your letters. If you want to change the type, just click on each letter and a new one will apperar.  Click right mouse button on each letter to save it as a jpg image. You can use them in your school homeworks, posters, in headlines, titles, headings... or just to write a letter or a greeting card to a friend. This is more original than using Word or PowerPoint WordArt. Isn´t it?.

• Periodic table writer. Try! 
  
• Try another one. Using the software CoolText, we transform a text into amazing icons. I have used it and this is what I got:

• The following one is in French, but I'm sure you will do with it: Coloriage Prenom.

• Scary fonts to download, for Halloween.

• Graffiti Creator. Create your own graffiti.

• Graffiti.

More:

Letters can be used to create whatever you like. Have a look:

• The Scarecrow

Do you want to try?

• Robotype composer

And more:

• Cool typography and words of wisdom in Pinterest.

Warm and cool colours

Warm and Cold colors from Rosa Fernández

• Warm and cool colors. The Artist's Toolkit.
• Make your abstract painting with Thisissand.com. You have to use ONLY WARM AND COOL colors.

Color online

• educacionplastica.net: Without getting dirty!...  
• Color in motion: Colour and emotions. How colour can provoke feelings or moods. 

• Color Shecheme Designer: working with warm and colod colors, opposite ones... and colorblind.

• Color of my sound. Enjoy! Music in color.
• Color Palette Generator. Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
• Color Hunter. A similar one.
• El color. All about color with a lot of interactive activities.
• Art games- Warm and cool colors. Level 1. Use the mouse to control the opening so that the warm and cool colors are in the proper sides.

• Art games- Warm and cool colors. Level 2. Use the mouse to control the opening so that warm and cool colors are in the proper sides.

2D shapes in Art: Roy Lichtenstein - POP ART

Roy Lichtentein is another POP ART artist. I'm sure you have seen his artworks in many places.

Roy Lichtenstein

View more PowerPoint from Rosa Fernández

Ben-Day dots printing process

The Ben-Day dots printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day, Jr., is a technique dating from 1879. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely spaced to create pink.

To apply the dots to a drawing the artist would purchase transparent overlay sheets. The sheets were available in a wide variety of dot size and distribution, which gave the artist a range of tones to use in the work. The overlay material was cut in the shapes of the tonal areas desired, shadow or background or surface treatment and rubbed onto the specific areas of the drawing with a burnisher.

And... some cheap ideas:

• Artisamcam Explore Pop Art. Explore the work of Roy Lichtenstein and create your own comic book style using Benday dots just like the famous Pop Artist.

• Pop Art 1950-present game. Quizz with score.

• Phrase it. Upload a photo and make it be comic style with bubbles and drama!

2D shapes in Art: Andy Warhol - POP ART

Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as POP ART.

And... what about black and white? See Painting with water.

• Andy Warhol´s Marilyn.  Create your own Marilyn.
  
• Pop Art Poster. Create your Warhol poster using this online tool. You can upload your picture.
  
• Befunky. Upload your picture, go to Effect and use Pop Art different effects. 

• Andy Warhol Quiz. Choose Andy Warhol and... PLAY. You will learn about Andy's life.
• Obama me. Upload a photo and create a poster only with shapes.
  

Lines quiz

Elements of Art: LINES

Visual Elements: LINE from Rosa Fernández

Lines in Art: IMPLIED LINES, simplicity to complexity.

TASKS

A.- Lines create forms:

Use an A4 sheet of paper and draw a shape with a pencil.You will have to work as the following example with a felt pen. When finished, erase the pencil. Do not use a ruler!.

Here you will find another example: La línea y la almeja.
Last course assignements: Lines creating hands and Lines creating 3D shapes.

B.- Lines create shapes:

 

Take a sheet of paper and create drawings using a continuous line (outline), similar to those you have seen in the video.

Have a look at last year's assignments.

• HOMEWORK. At home: PRINT THIS BOOK, pages 6, 7 and 8. Bring them and stick them in your notebook.
• The ARTIST's Toolkit: LINE. Work in Line and Edge and Outline. 

• Line design. Learn about lines and afterwards, draw lines with feelings. Draw these kind of lines:

• Artist: Pablo Picasso. Have a look to this slideshow: Dibujos de un solo trazo: PICASSO.

• Create your own drawing only with ONE LINE with this online tool: trazotool.
• Another tool to use: Dibujator.
• ArtPad. You will use a special mouse depending on the line size. And replay!
• Brushster: Have a look to this presentation. Now, you can create your own non-representational (abstract) piece of art with Brushster.

• Artist: Keith Haring. Look at these videos: 

 

Let's play with the semaphor disks:

keith Haring for kids from nivaca2

Now you can play with Haring.

• Artist: George Seurat (pointillism). Click here to go to a new game. You will learn about line types and composition.

• Artist: Robert Delaunay. Click here to play.