Co-designed a digital batik art unit called “DigiTik”, combining cultural heritage with digital creation. Students applied Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter skills to design virtual batik patterns.
Learning Highlights:
Observe and discuss patterns and motifs from Southeast Asian Batik traditions.
Experiment with digital brushes, color fills, and textures to simulate wax-resist effects.
Evaluate and refine their designs using art vocabulary and peer critique.
🌏 21st-Century Learning: Encourages appreciation of local culture while strengthening digital fluency and creative problem-solving.
Primary 4 : DigiTik - Shapes & letters, 2009
Name : Mavis Low and Kai Le
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 787x 787px, 100 dpi
Students draw the basic shapes using the brush tool & apply the colours using the gradient function. They also learnt to fill the image with the patterns they have drawn,
Primary 4 : DigiTik - Shapes & letters, 2009
Name : Nuramira
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 787x 787px, 100 dpi
Primary 4 : DigiTik - YOG sports, 2010
Name : Valerie and Yong Ting
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 2362x2362px, 300 dpi
As part of the YOG curriculum in 2010, students drew their favourite sport using the brush tool & apply the colours using the gradient function. They also learnt to fill the image with different sports motifs they have drawn.
Primary 4 : DigiTik - YOG sports, 2010
Name : Shannon Gan
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 2362x2362px, 300 dpi
Primary 4 : DigiTik - School values, 2012
Name : Lisana Ann Manoj
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 2953x1181px, 300 dpi
Students drew the school values that they would strongly uphold using the brush tool & apply the colours using the gradient function. They also learnt to fill the image with patterns that represent the values.
Primary 4 : DigiTik - School values, 2012
Name : Leong Xinmin
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 2953x1181px, 300 dpi
Primary 5 : DigiTik - Mehandi, 2008
Name : Siti Suhailah
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 2362x2362px, 300 dpi
Students trace their own palm using the brush tool & apply the colours using the gradient function. They then design the Malay motifs after learning about the Malay Mehandi culture.
Primary 5 : DigiTik - Mehandi, 2008
Name : Thaqifah Iman
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 2362x2362px, 300 dpi
Students drew the school values that they would strongly uphold and added Malay motifs.
Primary 6 : DigiTik - YOG Friendship, 2010
Name : Au Jun Wei & Lew Sun Chun
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 3508x2480px, 300 dpi
Students created a DigiTik art piece based on Kazakhstan's and Singapore’s national flowers. The background consists of Kazakhstan motifs. This art piece was to depict the friendship between the 2 countries as Kazakhstan was the partnering country during YOG.
Primary 6 : DigiTik - YOG Friendship, 2010
Name : Cynthia & Fiona
Software : Adobe Photoshop
Size : 3508x2480px, 300 dpi
Primary 6 : Digital Impressionism, 2015
Name : Choo Shee Seen Valerine
Software : Corel Painter Essential
Size : 1920x1080px, 72 dpi
Students searched and selected a high resolution landscape scenery photo as part of their research work. They created a digital impressionism art piece with the impressionist brush in Corel Painter.
Primary 6 : Digital Impressionism, 2015
Name : Jia Rui
Software : Corel Painter Essential
Size : 1920x1200px, 400 dpi