This term in kāhu we have been extending our knowledge by learning and making our own digital art.

In the kāhu hapori we love expressing ourselves, our identity, hobbies, skills and many many more! The purpose of digital art is to teach not only students but also teachers different digital skills on multiple platforms and apps. With this digital art, it helped us get creative and show off some of our very creative skills when it comes to technology. Here are some forms of digital art we have made in kāhu this term.

In the Kāhu space, the first digital art project we worked on was flox art. Before creating the flox art we looked at examples of flox art from a popular flox artist Hayley King and even some examples from our younger year 3 students. Flox art was a way to express different and bright colours through patterns of birds and plants. After we had some inspiration we went on to Canva to start our digital flox art. During this fun digital art project we learnt how to use Canva and how to use cool tools on Canva like transparency.

Pearl

The second digital art project we worked on in the Kāhu space was titled ‘All about me’. This project was based on the keynote app. The final masterpiece was a silhouette of the side of the person’s face filled with shapes of things that were a big part of their life, or something that they valued. To complete the art we were given many shapes to experiment with. We even learnt how to edit shapes and our silhouette to match our personal selves. We learnt many more tools on the keynote to help express our values through the keynote.

Pearl

The third digital art was called pop art. The first step to our pop art was learning about what it was. We first got to see some amazing pop art that people around the world had created. After that we learned a bit  and started creating pop art. We used the camera to take a photo of ourselves posing. Next we edited our photo to filter our photo into black and white. Then we could finally go into markup and pour all our creativity into creating a funky background and colour our clothes. While creating our Pop art we learnt how to take photos on camera, how to edit and add filters to our photos and how to draw using Markup on photos.

 

Tayler

 

The digital art journey has helped us by helping us develop our technology skills and by teaching more digital tools we can use later on when doing other digital art projects. The digital art projects were also fun opportunities for us students to express our creativity in a way we are engaged, entertained and excited

Pearl, Georgia & Eric