Introducing a new style shoe - Thanks to UnderArmour!

As part of the 6th Grade Photoshop class, one of the most popular projects is designing their own tennis shoe. The students are given a template to practice using various tools and understandng the concepts of layers, effects, and overlays. This quarter, we are pleased to roll out two new designs offered to us by UnderArmour. Students were offered a choice this quarter using the Nike or UnderArmour shoes. Keep an eye out next quarter for a few more new UA templates. The footwear graphics folks are developing a few more for us! We're very excited to change-up the designs. They even set us samples to handle and analyze color combinations before designing a unique shoe! Check out the new looks the students have created!

Cartooning Faculty

As the last project of 6th grade fine art, Photoshop, students were required to take a portrait of a person they would like to turn into a cartoon. They chose the theme this quarter as "faculty at Calvert." Students were required to take their own original creative image of the faculty memeber. Then, they then imported that picture into Adobe Photoshop. It is not an easy process; one that includes many of the skills they had learned over the quarter. They used filters, adjustments, blurs, and various different tools to create the look you see exhibited here. They completed over 100 steps to turn their photograph into a cartoon. Each picture has about 20-30 layers that create the image you see. The process was arduous but the results are very satisfying!

Juxtaposition and Surrealism

We have finished the last batch of juxtaposition projects in Photoshop class. The students get very creative as they put themselves in unusual settings. They are working on their cartoon images, so stay tuned for those next week!

Fine Arts Night -January 2012

Our second Fine Arts Night took place in the Black Box Theater last night, Wednesday, January 11th. If you missed this semester, stay tuned for the spring version! You won't want to miss it. Our very talented students in grades 5 through 8 read short stories & essays, performed skits from the plays, played in bands, sang, danced, all while a slideshow of the visual arts played in the background. Once again, our students shine! They were amazing and made all their fine art teacher proud! It's such an honor to inspire them and then stand back and watch what they can do!