Students will use the works of the artist Wassily Kandinsy and the expressionist artists as inspiration to create their own expressionist artwork in photoshop. The work should use the design elements: shape, line, and color in conjunction with the design principles: variety, proportion, contrast, movement, rhythm and balance.

This unit is and introduction to Cubism as an influential art movement. The unit begins with an exploration of the artwork of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and other Cubist artists. Once familiar with the style of Cubism students will create a design in that style. Creating “Digital Cubism” using Adobe Photoshop requires students to download […]

This unit introduces students to the Art of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a 14th century painter who combined fruits, vegetables and other natural items to create surrealistic faces. The students will start by watching a series of teacher produced video tutorials. The tutorials will introduce them to a variety of introductory selecting, layering and blending and photo […]