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I’ve been working with students in Years 3-6 to produce images using apps for digital drawing, and I thought I’d share our adventures. Although I usually use student creations, as the works are derived from selfies depicting young learners, instead of describing the...

  It was visual literacy in action this week at The Kellett School in Hong Kong as a variety of elementary classes explored logo design for packaging. These young learners needed to craft a distinctive design, using a considered colour palette and a combination of shapes, in...

  This week I’ve been collaborating with Year 4 students, and their inspiring classroom teacher and fellow ADE Dan Aivaliotis-Martinez (@martinezgeek). We developed some ideas for teaching and learning that connected Sphero devices with art-making practices – in...

Creativity, collaboration, movement and a little madness – ingredients for an exciting visual art lesson! While a 1:1 learning environment certainly can have some advantages for learning, shared devices and considered lesson design can provide valuable opportunities for...

Here’s a project idea as the end of the year approaches. I’ll let the students explain… “This term, a group of students signed up for Mrs Hunt’s mysterious digital art project. We didn’t know what it was about to begin with, but we knew we...

Lately I’ve been watching my students, fascinated by memes, remixes and mash-ups, repurpose all kinds of imagery in their work.   I’m keen to harness this creativity and leverage these starting points to explore changes in visual impact, aesthetics and meaning of...

I love the concept of kids making art on the iPad, but limiting their creative tools to drawing and colouring on mobile devices is also limiting the creativity. And, using just one app can mean that students are missing out on half the fun and a lot of the learning. A powerful...

WordFoto   This simple app allows students to create exciting imagery from photographs and text.  Simply enter the words or sentence you would like to use, adjust the fonts, colours and a host of other design elements…the app does the rest.   It’s a great visual...

A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again.  The collection of figures on the plane have no gaps and no overlaps.  Patterns created this way have an incredible mathematical rhythm.  Not only are tessellations fun to create, they can teach students...

Creating mandalas can be an engaging way for students to explore radial designs, symmetry and patterns in visual art.  The effect of colour on design and the influence of line are made explicit.  Connections can be made to the process of abstraction – this is an easy way to...