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Learn At Home Resources - Middle School Visual Arts
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Visual Art Lessons
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Movie Scene Drawing NEW Sketch listed items to create a movie scene. |
Two Point Perspective Drawing NEW
Draw a box using two-point perspective. |
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Create a ZINE Zines are tiny books that can be made from a single sheet of paper. |
Mountains in Contour
Create a landscape of mountains using contour lines to define its visual texture. Directions for Activity |
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Op Art Checkerboard Bubble Create an optical illusion drawing with a checkerboard and bubble. |
Paper Tube Sculpture – Create a sculpture or multiple sculptures with thin paper tubes. Directions for Activity |
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Found Object Color Wheel Create a color wheel of objects at home. |
One Point Linear Perspective Draw a one-point linear perspective room with one vanishing point. |
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Op Art Bubble - Optical effects Create a drawing that attempts to create an optical illusion where the checkerboard pattern has a bubble on it. High contrast colors like back and white when paired together cause the greatest confusion for the eye and the best visual results. |
Stippled Still-Life – Break down an image by shape and value Still-lifes are a very traditional method for learning how to draw. You will break down a composition of your choice (keep it simplistic) by shape and then value. A specific shading technique, stippling, will be utilized to shade in shadows and some details. |
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ZENTANGLE – The Art of Pattern Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. |
Fractured Drawing – Focus on Value A simple linear picture will be divided up into many value scales going from light to dark in order to create an image that looks like it was “fractured.” |
Photography Lessons
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Spot Heal and Clone Tools NEW Learn to use these two tools to heal imperfections and duplicate specific areas for advanced editing. Lesson Practice Google Slide |
Challenge! NEW If you’ve completed most of these lessons, you’re ready for a challenge. Choose from five video tutorials to put your skills to the test. Do one or do them all! Lesson Practice Google Slide |
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Remove Redeye Learn techniques used to remove red eyes from people in images. Lesson Practice |
Magic Wand Tool
Learn to make selections using the Magic Wand tool and to utilize the different settings that control what exactly is selected when using it. Lesson Practice |
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Desaturate Part of an Image Learn how to make a full color image partially black and white, while keeping color in just one object. Lesson Practice |
Retouching Got acne? Learn to get rid of acne the easy way! Lesson Practice |
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Changing Eye Color Use the selection tool in Pixlr Editor to learn to change the color of the iris of an eye. Think about other uses for that skill. Lesson Practice |
Changing the Color of an Object Use the selection tool in Pixlr Editor to learn to change the color of an object. Think about other uses for that skill. Lesson Practice |
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The Basics of Pixlr and the Crop Tool In this lesson, you will learn how to upload an image into Pixlr for editing, how to use the crop tool, and how to save your edited image back into your Google Drive. Lesson Practice |
Resizing Images In this lesson, you will learn how to resize our pictures for printing. Lesson Practice |
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Organizing Images Using Google Photos In this lesson, you will learn how to create an album in Google Photos, upload your pictures, and how to use the simple editing features in Google Photos.
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Understanding Photography Technical Terms In this lesson, you will learn about megapixels, file size, and saving pictures for the best quality. Lesson Practice |