Mr. Boulanger, Computer Teacher

Based on Still-life with Peaches painting (2004) by Russian artist Gribennikov, the 8th grade students created their own nature morte with Photoshop.The most still lives are from Annelies, Yasmine, Puneet and Tyler

Nature Morte by Gribennikov (2004) – the original

Natures Mortes by Annelies, Yasmine, Puneet and Tyler (2009)

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Nature morte or still-life: Type of work in which an arrangement of diverse inanimate objects, including items of food (especially fruit and game), plants and artefacts is depicted. This arrangement is often apparently random and is usually within a domestic setting. The form is normally associated with oil painting, but other media have been used, including mosaics, watercolour, collage and photography. Despite the existence of still-life subjects in pre-Classical, Classical and Renaissance art, the form was recognized as a distinct genre only in the 17th century, when it reached the height of its popularity in western Europe, especially the Netherlands (where many of the conventions of Renaissance and Baroque still-life painting originated), France, Spain and Italy. (from the art encyclopedia at answers.com)

These fabulous trees representing the structure of the US Library of Congress website have been drawn with Paint (would you believe it?) by Rachel, Yasmine, Bernice, and Kevin. Great workfrom these four 8th graders.

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Today you can admire the artistic works of Soraya, Morgan, and Camille from grade 7 and Annick, Claire, and Isabel from Grade 8. This name tag assignment completed using PowerPoint 2007 also includes psychological results from the Big 5 personality test.

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In this assignment, 8th graders had to translate one point of the syllabus into a one-slide image based explanation. The creativity of Namrata and Chiara both landed them on this online portfolio.

A car won’t make you cooler, but being able to design a logo in Photoshop is a great skill to have. 8th graders test their mouse pad with this logo reproduced with multiple layers and layer styles. Sandhya and Stephanie’s work are showcased here:

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Some extra-credit works which were submitted to me recently:

hatem                          dimitri                            haiel

A short assignment similar to the Easter eggs assignment. Students discover layers, brushes and colors in Photoshop by coloring a black & white model.

This is a collage of all the works which were submitted:

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This is a collage of the Easter eggs which 8th graders completed as an introduction to Adobe Photoshop.

This is a non-graded assignment in which 8th grade students discovered how to use brushes, colors and gradients in Photoshop.
[Project length: one class period]