Winslow School 2nd Visit

This visit enabled us to develop the ongoing experimental image making project with Piscasso's Ipod group. We looked at other low tech constructions that could be made and then photographed. In this part of the project, we had been looking at origami. Between my visits I had recorded a demonstration of print and origami process to build a box shape using Adobe Breeze software to record my own 'meeting'.

Origami demonstration

This resource was then viewed by the students at the school and used to build their own printed box shapes, which were very successful. Students had made several attempts with different sized paper and printed textures.

On this second visit, I was able to see their origami work and find out how easy the demo was to follow. Feedback seems to be, the format of videoed origami instructions are easier to follow as a group, being able to pause and catch up was helpful.

Building on these origami skills, we made paper angels in this session, linking the artwork with possible seasonal outcomes. Every student made their own angel, helping each other with each stage of the process. Using the same methods as in my last visit, students then experimented with ways to photograph these angels and also their origami original boxes.

What became apparent was the ease in which students combined both these shapes and developed their own narrative for the image making, helping creative decisions of colour and composition. I think the choice of a familiar, non-abstract origami shape influenced this response. Students happily invented the angel as a character, placing him in the origami box (now boat), on the water (white fabric), near a waterfall (bubble wrap), suggesting water current (printed textures on box/boat) and back lighting all these layers.

Student Photography from session

A possible next stage to the work will be to develop these origami images in Adobe Photoshop. Discussions with teacher Mrs Epps has brought up the usefulness of the previous recorded demonstrations. As a lead into my third and final visit of the term, I will produce a Photoshop demo, dedicated towards Picasso's Ipod, which can be viewed in the school's own time, but in preparation for further practical and digital work in the next visit.