Digital art 'testing'

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Computational Thinking and Creativity Art Challenge

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Objectives

Computing

Select and use software on a tablet to design and create artistic content.
Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of ICT.
Evaluate and apply IT, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

Art

Develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.
Use sketch books to record observations and to review and revisit ideas.

Lesson Planning

Explore the art of Hockney and digital landscape artist, Andy Maitland for inspiration. Test out your winning painting app and begin to plan your own piece of digital art.

Teaching Outcomes:

To investigate the features of a painting app to fully understand its functions and features.
To explore, photograph and sketch ideas for a digital landscape painting.

Children will:

Have a look at digital landscape paintings by Hockney and Andy Maitland.
Investigate their chosen painting app to fully understand its functions and features.
Plan their piece of digital art through photography and sketches.

Planning

Provided Resources

'Layers' images

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Tablets & apps
Digital cameras or recording devices
Sketchbooks

Weblinks

Hockney’s Woldgate Woods canvases – YouTube clip
A short video showing Hockney viewing the installation of ‘The Four Seasons’ at the NGV, Melbourne from ngv.vic.gov.au
Hockney’s Arrival of Spring exhibition from annelyjudafineart.co.uk
About Hockney’s iPad™ art from bbc.co.uk
David Hockney unveils his iPad™ art from telegraph.co.uk
Video of Andy Maitland iPad™ drawings from vimeo.com
Andy Maitland iPad™ drawings from andymaitland.com
Landscape Painting on the iPad™ using Procreate - YouTube clip
iPad™ speed painting in Procreate - YouTube clip