formal Art activity:

Active and Static Shapes

 
  • Create a black and white outline image
  • Crop the picture
  • Save it as original
  • Now, resize the image using Image, Stretch/Skew.
  • Click Edit, select all; Edit, Copy.
  • Create a new image, but do NOT save the changes to original
  • Resize the new image to fill the screen
  • Paste and move the image
  • Repeat several times
  • Save as final
  • Now go back to original, resize (to a different size), and follow the procedure again until you have final filled up with images of different sizes
  • Arrange the shapes, overlapping occasionally, to create a sense of motion and depth. Fill the page, having some of the shapes going off the edges of the page (you'll have to move each shape when you paste it - you can't 'go back' after you've started working with another image).
  • Choose a monochromatic color scheme, using the bucket-fill tool to fill in the shapes, assigning one color per size. Be sure to change the color where overlaps occur.

Check out the examples below: