Lesson #1: Exploring Drawing and Painting Tools on a Computer
Computers with AppleWorks and internet access, chart of instructions for using drawing and painting tools in AppleWorks, computer projector and laptop, printer
Equisite Corpse by Man Ray, Miro, Tanguy, and Morise; Night Garden by Janet Wong; www.google.com images;, www.metmuseum.org
Students will work with a partner to use the painting and drawing tools to create an image by importing, cropping, re-sizing and moving the images to create a composite. Each student in the pair should take turns drawing or importing a part of an image. The partners should print out their finished image.
Display finished digital images.
Ask students:
- What were some of the challenges you faced?
- How was this experience different from drawing directly on paper?
- What were some surprising discoveries?
The classroom teacher should have read aloud one poem from Janet Wong's Night Garden, shown the students the acccompanying illustration by Julie Paschkis, and discussed the relationship between text and image. Using Janet Wong's Night Garden as an inspiration, and with the assistance of the classroom teacher, student will write a narrative inspired by a dream or imagination.