With our PEACH Drama performance later this week, I realized I hadn't included this on the blog so now was the perfect time.
Contemporary art encompasses many different art forms, from traditional media such as paintings and drawings to more recently developed approaches that use digital and time based media. This fall Abigail was fortunate enough to attend a Digital Art Class at the Dallas Museum of Art. It probably wasn't as in depth as the classes Digital Imaging and Design Technology that my brother took, but it was a great introductory classes for high school students.
Contemporary art encompasses many different art forms, from traditional media such as paintings and drawings to more recently developed approaches that use digital and time based media. This fall Abigail was fortunate enough to attend a Digital Art Class at the Dallas Museum of Art. It probably wasn't as in depth as the classes Digital Imaging and Design Technology that my brother took, but it was a great introductory classes for high school students.
Each of the students were instructed to bring in existing digital art pieces on a thumb drive and then guided by the instructor they would transform it into their own art. The instructor covered copyright laws and that if it was not a piece that the youth would profit from or intent for malice to the original artist it was lawful.
Abigail chose to bring in the logo for the Broadway production of Something Rotten! A Very New Musical and transform it into a logo for our PEACH groups upcoming performance of Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark.
The original piece she started with is on top and Abigail's final version is below. I'm amazed at the final result, I think it took her almost the entire two hour class to clean up the original image and add the changes. There are art 'snobs' who don't consider digital art an art form, but after watching the kids in this class manipulate their images; copy, clone and edit microscopic pieces to create their masterpieces, I'm thoroughly impressed.
Abigail entered her artwork in the PEACH art contest for the t-shirt design for the drama club shirts this year and although she didn't win I could not be more thrilled with her heart to learn a new skill and use it for the good of her PEACH group. The art work was included on the Courtyard Theaters website, marquee and the box office tickets! Clearly they approved of her skills!
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Philippians 2:3-4
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