Source Image Gathering and Image Manipulation
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Student photograph to be made into photographic silkscreen
Students take digital photographs and manipulate images using Adobe Photoshop.
Suggested Time Frame:
2-3 class periods
Objectives:
- Students will take photographs using digital cameras
- Students will download digital images into Adobe Photoshop and adjust the contrast
- Students will bitmap and print their high contrasted digital images onto transparencies
Procedure
Materials:
| Digital cameras | Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Handout |
| Computers and Adobe Photoshop | Transparency paper for Film Positives (select transparency paper suited for your type of printer) |
- Review previous lesson. Present the Image Gallery for this lesson as a review. Discuss Warhol’s use of cropping, color and shape.
- Students take photographs using digital cameras, either inside or outside the school building. Possible Warhol-related subject matter: still-life arrangements of popular objects, abstract patterns found in nature, portraits or architectural elements.
- Download the images and open them in Adobe Photoshop. Distribute tutorial handouts.
- Students complete the tutorials and save their work.
Assessment
Warhol Education Rubrics
Click the Warhol Rubric headers below to reveal associated rubrics to which this lesson applies.
Critical Thinking
| CT.1 | Integrative: Able to identify, and integrate personal experience into one's thinking process | Sees little or no influence that their feelings and values have on their artmaking or critique of artwork. | Is increasingly more aware of how their own bias affects their artmaking or critique of artwork. | Possesses a concrete awareness of how their own preferences influence their art making or critique of artwork. | Adapts their personal perferences of artmaking and artwork based on an analysis of opposing viewpoints. | Integrates personal experience and formal critiques to examine the creative process or critique of artwork. |
| CT.2 | Contextual Thinking: Conducts analysis of contextual information to determine relevant and logical reasoning that supports their decision process and opinions. | Has a hard time identifying relevant contextual data. | Understands data and make decisions in varying contexts with greater accuracy. | Utilizes contextual data skillfully to form logical arguments and relevant explanations. | Understands data and make decisions in varying contexts with greater accuracy. | Utilizes contextual data skillfully to form logical arguments and relevant explanations. |
Communication
| CO.4 | Media Literacy: Use technology to express ideas. | Uses the technological and multimedia tools in a limited way to express conclusions or viewpoints. | Technological and multimedia tools are relevant and functions in a basic way to express intent. | Media choices convey message of work and are applied by student in conscious way. | Media is used skillfully to enhance the impact of the work. The media illustrates important ideas, details and relationships. | The media reinforces the main ideas in original and creative ways. The student's use of media is highly perceptive and intelligent. |
Creative Process
| CP.3 | Experimentation and Play: Flexiblity and adaptability in problem-solving. | Uses materials and ideas in straightforward manner without testing various possibilities. | Tries multiple ways of using materials before deciding upon one idea. Is able to make predictions about a project based upon experimentation. | Develops an artwork in a way that is innovative by analyzing successes and failures and adapting their working process | Analyzes the results from their new way of working to create new “rules” for work that is personally gratifying (fun). | Combines experiences of play and experimentation to pose unique parameters for new artwork. |
| CP.5 | Skill and Craftsmanship | Handles materials in a limited way and lacks an understanding of the techniques, methods and conventions used to create work. | Uses materials in a basic way to create work. | Demonstrates dexterity and skill in creating a work of art. | Able to adapt materials to create their own distinctive mark, style or identifiable characteristic. | Craftsmanship and construction of work (form) is fully integrated with the ideas (content) and is aesthetically excellent. |