Op Art Squares

Objectives:

Students will create and manipulate digital shapes and lines in Google Drawings by using tools such as the shape, line, polyline, and curved line tools to construct original artwork.

Students will be able to apply color and backgrounds to digital artwork by changing shape fills, line colors, transparency, and backgrounds, including the use of color transitions/gradients to create visual interest.

Students will demonstrate they can copy, paste, resize, rotate, and flip objects to efficiently create repeated shapes and designs while demonstrating control of digital art tools.

Students will be able to group and arrange multiple shapes to create patterns and designs, using repetition, rotation, flipping, alignment, and spacing to create an organized and visually balanced composition.

Vocabulary:

Alignment – Arranging objects so that their edges, centers, or other points line up with one another.

Background – The area or color behind the main objects in an artwork.

Border – The visible outline around a shape or object.

Color – An element of art created by using different hues and their variations.

Copy – To make a duplicate of a selected object so it can be placed somewhere else.

Curved Line – A line that bends or changes direction rather than remaining straight.

Digital Art – Artwork created or manipulated using a computer or other digital technology.

Duplicate – To create an exact copy of an object.

Fill Color – The color placed inside a shape.

Flip – To reverse an object horizontally or vertically.

Font – A particular style or design of letters and numbers used in digital artwork.

Foreground – The main objects or elements that appear in front of the background.

Gradient – A gradual transition from one color to another or from lighter to darker shades of a color.

Group – To combine multiple objects so they can be moved, resized, or edited as one object.

Hue – The name of a color, such as red, blue, green, or yellow.

Layer – The position of an object in relation to other objects in an artwork.

Line – A mark made by a moving point that can be straight, curved, thick, thin, or varied in other ways.

Polyline – A line made by connecting several straight-line segments together.

Pattern – A design created by repeating an element or group of elements.

Paste – To place a copied or cut object into a new location.

Resize – To change the width, height, or overall size of an object.

Rotate – To turn an object around a central point.

Shape – A two-dimensional enclosed area, such as a circle, square, triangle, or other form.

Spacing – The amount of distance between objects or parts of a design.

Stroke – The line or outline around a shape or object.

Symmetry – A type of balance in which parts of an artwork are arranged as mirror images or in a similar way.

Transparency – The amount that an object or color allows the background behind it to show through.

Undo – A command that reverses the most recent action.

Zoom – A tool or setting that makes the artwork appear larger or smaller on the screen without changing its actual size.

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