Creating a High Contrast Stencil

Step 1: Take a high contrast photo. There should be shapes that are really light highlights and shapes that are really dark shadows.

Step 2: Trace the shapes that you want to cut out

Step 3: Prepare your background (if you need to.)

Step 4: Cut out your shapes.

Step 5: Spray or paint in the stencil shapes.

India Ink and Charcoal

So far the goal I have of working with my students this year is going well. We have done some expressive little india ink drawings, and charcoal still-life drawings in black and white.

Stencil Self-Portrait

Highlights: Find the lightest areas of an image and cut them out.

Spray or brush the light color in the highlight shapes.

Shadows: Find the darkest values in an image. It helped me to draw over them with a black marker.

Cut dark shadows out.

Line up your image with the first stencil color. Spray or brush through the stencil. 

Now you have an image with highlights, mid-tones, and shadows. I think my mid-tones are a bit dark here, so it's not as successful as it could be.

This is from a session I went to at the NAEA Convention in March called "Tag It" A Unit on Graffiti and Stencil Street Art by Deborah Huff. Nasco has published this lesson plan as well.

Painting 3 of Student Series

I Finally finished it!

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas paper

Title: Justin

Date: March 2017

Collage

More Decontextualization Images

Quotation:

Cliché:

 Word:

Growth is Stronger Than Stone

My first animated GIF.

Stop Motion Animation: Falling Paper Man Video

My previous post was based off these photos. We did stop motion animation last spring. This was my quick example.

Falling Man

More fun with Photoshop.

Meeting a Lego Baseball Player

Playing With Photoshop

Digital Story: I Hate Birds!?

Made by Adobe Spark Page #AdobeGenPro

Adobe Spark Example Video

This is an autobiography about my hands and feet...eeewww! Enjoy :)

Decontextualization

I'm planning on bringing back some old assignments. It has been about 8 years since I have done this one in class. You take a picture out of context, and a word, phrase, or cliché out of context and remix them with each other to create new meaning.

I would just like to say that Adobe Spark Post is a great tool to do this! We can do some graphic design in class without all the software (even though I would like all the software.)

Phrase--Lyrics

Phrase--Literature Quotation

Word

Cliché