Category: Student Work

Last spring I was approached by Mrs. Chase, our amazing theater teacher, to discuss a collaborative project between Ms. Moran’s Art students, Mrs. Massoni’s Art students, and my Digital Media 2 & 3 students. The premise was that once the characters were cast for the fall play “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”, the 6…

Digital 1 students recently learned how to use Photoshop’s basic shape tools. To practice using shape layers and layer stacking, students were assigned a project where they had to create various animals using only Photoshop’s basic and custom shapes. Here are the top 3 from each class period.

Face it, all teenagers like to “push the boundaries” from time to time. This time I actually encouraged it. This Digital Media 1 project challenged students to push the boundaries of reality by creating a composite image using multiple images in Photoshop. Here are the top submissions for this project.

Digital Media 3 students have been working in Illustrator for the past few months. I stumbled upon an article that ran in the New York Times about the Android logo. The students read the article, used Illustrator to recreate the original logo, and then they created their own Android characters. Here’s what they came up…