Another Anamorphosis 3D Street Art

You might find this hard to believe but I don't always completely  know how to do the projects I assign. Case in point, Anamorphosis 3D Street Art. However, working together on a project, through trial and error, Apex Art has learned how to create some very cool art. 

Today, we started working on several sidewalk chalk drawings that incorporate the concept of  anamorphosis. The idea is that if viewed from a certain perspective, the object being drawn looks 3Dish.

  

First step was to create a distorted image using PhotoShop. Those images were placed on a grid and printed so we would have a road map to work from. Next, we created the grid using 20" square boards as guides.

 

The grid helps with transferring such a large image. This way the artist only needs to concentrate on one small area at a time. 

 From this view you can see how distorted the dolphin is.

As the viewer moves back, the image comes into perspective.

Art History 2012 Beginning to End

A stop motion look at Apex HS Art History 2012 Beginning to End

Singing Animation

Travis created this singing Red Hot Chili Pepper

Sing along if you know the words!

for the blog

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Pastels

Ceramics

Monsters Final

Along with the photos, please write about your experience working on each project. The following questions can be used as a guide. You don't need to answer all the questions...



1. Describe your overall thoughts on the final piece.

2. if this was a group project, what was your contribution?

3. How successful do you feel this piece is and why?

4. What worked about this project? What didn’t work?

5. If you were to do this project over again, what changes would you consider making?

6. What was the most difficult part about completing this piece and why?

7. What did you learn from this piece?

Apex High Reunion Art Show

The Apex High School Reunion Art Show is right around the corner and it's not too late to get involved!

Former Apex High art students who are still making art can enter commercial work and personal work digitally or physically.

Here are three documents to help get you started!

Halle Show Exhibit Guidelines

Label Template

Gallery Exhibit Contract

Contact Leatha Koefler, lkoefler@wcpss.net and she can send you all the details.

Keith Haring's Birthday

Today is Keith Haring’s birthday. Keith and I both went to the School of Visual Arts in NYC. I use to go to his shows when I lived in NY and even shopped at the Pop Shop.

The best part is, I lined up my Art History lesson plans so that this week we studied Pop Art and today, we studied Keith Haring. How exciting, yes I know.

What is even better is that we had two birthday cakes. One during Art History and one during Ar One!

Candles!

Bark! Bark!

Happy Face!

Cutting the cake

Poor puppy

And it was gone in seconds!

Yum!

Cinemagraphs

Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occurs. Our Computer Art class created these cinemagraphs in PhotoShop to give the illusion that the viewer is watching a video.

Not sure how to create an animated gif in PhotoShop CS4?  Watch this short tutorial on Vimeo.

the Apex Influence : Make Art!

One of the goals of this site is to not simply showcase student's work but to help others understand how we did each project so they can try it too. This week I received three emails from three different schools talking about projects they completed at their school after seeing Apex's work.

The first email came from Ms. Boykin of Corinth Holders High School right here in North Carolina. She found our site after having a similar idea to turn bricks into pixels. She had emailed me earlier in the year asking how much chalk we went through to create our bricks to pixel project.

The next project I received as a tweet that simply read > "Look - it's Mr. Dennett - thanks @iansands for the idea #artsed http://t.co/BC6oZ6CF"

If you're interested in creating a post it note mural, you can find instructions right here on our blog.

The last email came from John Romang, art teacher in Metropolis, IL. His Art Club students decided to try their hand at making some Skittle art! You can see more examples of their work on their blog http://www.artatmassac.blogspot.com/

Art History Putt Putt Classic

Now in exciting video form!