2nd grade portraits on Sketchbook app

2^nd Grade Exploration with 

Digital Portraits

Using Sketchbook App.

Second-grade students have been developing a range of digital art skills using their iPads. The primary applications they utilize include Stop Motion, iMovie, and Sketchbook. Throughout the unit, students often integrate multiple apps to enhance and expand their creative work.

Instruction began with foundational techniques in Sketchbook, allowing students to build confidence with digital drawing tools. Students then progressed to creating short animated projects using the Stop Motion app. Following this, they learned to use iMovie to enhance their animations by incorporating sound elements such as music, voiceovers, and sound effects.

For this particular activity, students either photographed themselves or selected an image of someone they admire. Using Sketchbook, they applied newly acquired skills to draw and develop a likeness of their chosen subject.

As this is a choice-based art class, students were provided with an open-ended prompt, encouraging them to create personally meaningful work while fostering engagement, creativity, and individual expression.

 

 

Initial 4th grade portraits on Sketchbook app

4th Grade Exploration with 

Digital Portraits

Using Sketchbook App.

4th Grade students have been developing a range of digital art skills using their iPads. The primary applications they utilize include Stop Motion, iMovie, and Sketchbook. Throughout the unit, students often integrate multiple apps to enhance and expand their creative work.

Instruction began with foundational techniques in Sketchbook, allowing students to build confidence with digital drawing tools. Students then progressed to creating short animated projects using the Stop Motion app. Following this, they learned to use iMovie to enhance their animations by incorporating sound elements such as music, voiceovers, and sound effects.

For this particular activity, students either photographed themselves or selected an image of someone they admire. Using Sketchbook, they applied newly acquired skills to draw and develop a likeness of their chosen subject.

As this is a choice-based art class, students were provided with an open-ended prompt, encouraging them to create personally meaningful work while fostering engagement, creativity, and individual expression.

 

 

family portraits -k

4th graders create Picasso- inspired portraits

I am super proud of these creations. I had to be out of school Tuesday and left some lessons plans for the substitute. The lesson plan for the 4th graders, who normally come to art for an hour and 10 minutes needed to be involved and complex to fill the whole time. I had the teacher read a biography about Picasso to the students first. After, they used a worksheet to help them plan their faces. Last, they used oil pastels to color in the faces and the background. I think I may use this again soon. The results were very pleasing. 

Great characters....a gallery walk of all mixed-media 4th Grade portraits

I am so very proud to present the 4th grade portraits for this year. They are mixed media works done using watercolor, crayons, cray pas, and pencils. The began by drawing proportionate faces, then practicing specific features using mirrors. They then brainstormed specific personal characteristics they would like to portrait in their portraits. They then studied color theories and specifically looked at Van Gogh's use of compliments. This is the culmination of weeks of skill building and it shows!

To see in-process images and posts of this project, just click on 4th grade on the search list on your left and you will see a whole gallery of the entire unit.

If your child's portrait is not here they have not yet finished them and need to set up time with me aside from class time to finish it.

Children used mirrors to see where their skin appeared darker and lighter.

Using Cray pas on our hair allowed them to appear textured.



We discovered that our upper lips appear darker than our bottom lips. Why is that you think?










Inspired by Va Gogh's work using strong complements we too used equal amount of complements as a way to draw in the viewer.