OA# 3: Digital Drawing/Painting Lesson Plan

When introducing collage, image making, composition, and meaning making, digital drawing/painting could be a good idea to incorporate with. 

Following are the reasons why:

1) It is more fun when students don't need to look at the traditional paintings/ artwork when talking about composition and collage.

2) it is faster when one needs to test out how one image might look with another one (collage, composition). One just needs to pull images and add layers on top instead of cutting it out with a pair of scissors.

3) It's exciting, when students could use a digital device to come up/design their own art work. Many students nowadays have already had experience with Photoshop. 

4) It's practical. Once a student learned how to manipulate an image, he/she could do that with designing posters for other purposes. He/she could also apply these skills on their social media and blogs. 

Leying Zhang

2/12/16

Students: 9th grade

Title: Digital Communication

Material

            Sketchbook, Photoshop

Learning Objective

            Through making a typographic drawing/painting using Photoshop, students will learn that they can manipulate the arrangement of font size, line- length, line-spacing, letter-spacing and style through Photoshop.

Spark

Teacher:

    1)   “Where do you mostly get your information from nowadays? Do you read from newspaper and books or do you read online?”

    2)   “When you read news, or read your textbooks online. What do you notice about the words appeared on the Internet?”

    3)   “When you type your essays, what format do you normally or like to use?”

Demonstration/Material Dialogue

Teacher: 

1  1)   “We talked about the possible fonts and sizes when typing on Word. Now if I want to make a typographic drawing that only emphasis one word, how would you do it?” 

    2)   “What if I want to have a message in my artwork, which associate with a product, what are possible ways you can relate to that product?” 

    3)   “Think about how you want your words and images to be communicated through a flat surface. What are the possible tools you can use in Photoshop that will help you archiving your goals?”

Closure

Teacher: “We discussed the ways one can use fonts, sizes, line-space and the artistic representations of words, which could incorporate images. Now please take a moment and think about what do you want to communicate through words. How would you like to represent it on the Internet so people could notice?  You can start sketching out your ideas on your sketchbooks first, when you are ready, you may start. “