In this project, sixth graders first learned about the history of tessellations and looked at the work of artist MC Escher. Then they created their own tessellations- a special kind of design made from different patterns of repeating shapes called polygons (closed shapes that have three or more sides). In tessellation designs, congruent polygons fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces that repeat again and again- they could go on forever! Students learned about paint mixing (creating new colors, tints and shades) and painted their tessellation designs using either a warm or cool color scheme in acrylic.
To create the portrait, students traced the light and dark areas of their faces using a projected digital photograph on a separate sheet of paper. Using the opposite warm or cool color scheme from their background, they painted their portrait, making sure their light and dark areas were highly contrasting. The faces were then cut out and glued to the tessellation background...
Did you use a certain edit program to get the digital photo to have a greater contrast?
ReplyDeleteyes, I'm confused how you got all their photos in positive negative. can you explain?
ReplyDeleteI take a photograph of each student with a lamp/spotlight pointed toward one side of their face. I upload those to MyPictures, then use a projector to project the image onto my white board. I tape a piece of white paper to the board and the kids trace themselves, with a focus on deciding what is "dark" and what is "light". They trace SHAPES that they can fill in with paint and label them "L" for light and "D" for dark so they know what's what when they start to paint
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