Another batch of fantastic portraits from my 5th grade students! These ones are in Ms. Gallagher’s homeroom class.
A few people have asked me how these paintings are made. Each student snapped a photo of themselves using the computer’s built-in camera and an application called Photo Booth. Art Rage is a computer painting program, like KidPix or Paint, except it gives a much more realistic painting experience. Oil paint can be blobbed onto the digital canvas and then pushed around and blended together with a palette knife. Students can choose from an art box chock full of colored pencils, pastels, paint, markers etc. I encouraged them throughout this project to experiment with all of the different tools, try everything, be creative and see what emerges!
Students used Art Rage’s “tracing” feature to import the photos of themselves into the program, then set their paint palette to “choose colors from tracing image.” From there, anywhere they touched their paint brush to the canvas, the brush put down paint in the exact same color as the photo underneath. Once the students filled the entire canvas with paint, they removed the tracing image and admired their stunning, impressionistic portraits.
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
Filed under: ArtRage, 5thGrade, student work
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