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PleaseFor now Send student art as an attachment (jpg)max size 500pixels any side to

Marvin Grossman D.Ed. and I will post them on our website.

Created with Photoshop, children ages 6-10

As we move into the 21st century, no one doubts that the computer and its ability to transfer data is playing a pivotal roll in the course of human history. Art has the potential to put a human face on the computer;the information highway without art is a stream of data. Just as Artists perceived the camera as a great challenge in the 19th century, the computer challenges the Arts in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

However, technology can only challenge the direction of art, not the existence of the artist. Technology needs the artists to give life to data, and art educators need to help fill the need for digital artists.Digital art experiences can start with the first school exposure to the computer.

Marvin Grossman D.Ed.

About these Pictures

I included these examples to demonstrate that no matter how complicated the software is our children are up for the challenge.
This Lesson is an introduction to Adobe Photoshop . In these examples students learned various paint tools, selections, masks, filters, etc., while they were creating an Outer Space picture. These pictures are the work of elementary students grades 1-3. The lessons that follow are more practical for beginning computer art programs since they utlize digital drawing programs that most school may already own.