Hear Some Art
The art is virtual, the thinking is concrete.
Middle school students in Creative Art Works’ Digital Design class at PS/MS 278 took a deep dive into manipulating images and text. Students worked in Pixlr, a free software similar to Adobe Photoshop. Each project focused on a specific aspect of digital design, including collage, masking, and manipulating type. The results were beautiful, surreal, funny, and often thought-provoking. Presented below is a selection of artwork along with some recorded statements by the artists themselves.
Windows and Doors
For this culminating project, students learned more complex ways of layering images. By using the masking tool to weave images over and under each other, and knowledge of one-point perspective, the artists created the illusion of objects entering and exiting frames, windows or doors.
The Underwater House
Is it a bad idea to chase after giant forks?
Selected artworks from this project
Digital Collage
In this open-ended assignment, students combined copyright-free images to create something new.
Whoosh
The Devil in Water
Typographical Wildlife
Text can be transformed by manipulating size, color, font, warping, and layering. For this project, students combined letter forms and images in playful ways to create an animal or person.
Lotter
Rick Astly Made of Letters
Greetings from Beautiful PS/MS 278!
Inspired by old-fashioned postcards that have a different image in each letter, students learned a 'cookie-cutter" technique to fill the shape of a letter with an image. Each artist chose to illustrate either their name or a favorite place or thing.
Call Me by My Name
Black and White and Color
Selected artworks from this project
Attention PS/MS 278 Students in grades 3-5!
It’s not too late to join the after-school program: New York City Field Trip: The Art of Mapping the Hidden City!
This Creative Art Works program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural After-School Adventures (CASA) Initiative in partnership with the City Council and Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez.