Dewey Mac Lab - DL Extra Credit F2020

Rubric

Distance Learning

Extra Credit Assignment Menu (Updated 1/4/22)

Choose From Options Below!

Have your own idea? Run it by Ms. Hooker for approval

Remembering MLK (Updated 1/4/22)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Activity Ideas

Photopea collage about him (see below)
Written response to a speech/quote
Slide show about his life/contributions

Photopea Collage

gihsphoto1.weebly.com

File Set Up: 11" x 8.5" -- or -- 8.5" x 11" @ 300 DPI

2. Choose a theme / topic

3. Find Non Art images from the Internet and add them to your file

4. Practice all the Photopea skills we learned

• Image quality

• 8 selection tools

• Feathered edges

• Constrained proportions

THEME / TOPIC IDEAS

Personal interests
Favorite school subject / book / music / etc.
Fan art
Emotion(s)
Etc.

Art for Student Art Page

LINK

DIGITAL ART

Submit it to the extra credit posting
Include a name for your artwork in the private comments (optional)

NON DIGITAL ART

Choose a work of art that you completed for this class during the 2021-22 school year
Find good lighting (outdoors or in a room with plenty of lighting
Hang artwork on the wall in a place where lighting is even and there are no shadows.
Position your camera so that the frame is mostly filled with your artwork with a bit of the background showing to be cropped out later. Take the picture.
Edit your photo for perfection (or Ms. Hooker will do it)
Submit it to the extra credit posting
Include a name for your artwork in the private comments (optional)

Synthetic Cubism Painting/Mixed Media

1. Review Video starting at 8:54

Cubism Painting Video

Women in Art History

Frida Kahlo, 1907 - 1954

Elizabeth Catlett, 1915 -2012

Activity Ideas

Choose a female artist to honor. If you need to, Google "Women Artists" and find one that you admire
Create a tribute to the artist by either drawing, painting, collaging, etc. a

---portrait of her

--- composition inspired by her

Include 1 - 3 sentences about your work in the private comments when you submit. Explain why you chose to honor the artist

Recreate a Masterpiece

1. Use stuff you have around your apartment to recreate a masterpiece.

2. Send the two separate images, the masterpiece and a photo of your recreation of it

See samples linked below

Link

Poem or Song Presentation in Power Point, Google Slides, iMovie, or other

1. Use Powerpoint/Google Slides/iMovie/Other

• Write your own or use existing poem

• Song lyrics

• Flat colors, photos or art images

(Audio is probably too complicated to consider unless you already have experience with it)

Samples linked below have audio which is not an expectation

"Believe in Yourself"

"Love is"

Exquisite Corpse

1. Find 2 - 3 other students who want to join you to make a group of 3-4

2. Assign parts of the body to each person

• Neck and Head• Shoulders to belly button with arms included• Hips• Legs

3. Choose one person who can combine all the images together and hand it in.

Exactly how can you make this all happen without physically being together as a group? That's part of the fun! Figure it out?

PS: You can use your own photos / photos from the Internet too

Magazine Collage

Or you can make a collage out of colored paper, fabric, found objects, etc!

Origami Demonstration

Photo slide show or video

Tin Foil Sculpture

1. Add other materials too if you would like!

Abstract Photography

Create a slide show of 8 or more distinctly different abstract photographs that you took yourself

Abstract Photography Defined

Abstraction takes place when a photographer zooms in one part of a natural scene, isolating it from its surroundings.

The focus of the photograph ends up being about color, texture, line, shape, space, balance, contrast, pattern, etc. and not about the real world and familiar objects.

Examples