Computer Art Project 1 (Digital Painting)

Objective:  Students will learn how to select colors and use layers and brushes to create a painting of a photo of their choice in Corel PainterX.

State Goals:

26-Through creating and performing, understand how works of art are produced
26.A.4e Visual Arts:
Analyze and evaluate how tools/technologies and processes combine to convey meaning. 

Skills:

-Use of brushes

-Selection of colors

-Use of layers

-Determining highlights and shadows

-Stepping backwards

Procedure:

Step one- Create document that is 8 by 8 in Illustrator titled by your first and last name followed by 1.

Step two- Find an image of an animal that is no smaller than 400 by 400.

Step three- View full sized image and drag into Photoshop crop to 8 by 8.

Step four- Open image on your canvas in Illustrator and create a new layer Layer-New Layer (call it paint).

Step five- by selecting colors from the original image paint on the new layer creating the image below.  Different brushes may be used to add design and textures.  Make sure you DON'T PAINT ON THE CANVAS!

(canvas layer is deleted to print paintings)

Here are some examples of how they turned out!