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Creative Scanners 2: Secondary  

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Project Ideas

These are some ideas to start you off. Think of photocopy art, rubbings, textures, darkroom photograms and digital images. 

There are other ideas and examples on the Primary scanners page. 

NOTE

  1. Protect the glass on your scanner if using sharp or messy objects by placing a sheet of clear acetate over it first

  2. Keep it clean as you would a camera lens

  3. You can cover the objects with coloured paper or material for different effects and with black velvet to cut out any light from the room when scanning 3-D objects

  4. There is a very shallow depth of field, so the parts of 3D objects that are further away will be out of focus
  • Self-portraits using scans of hands plus a meaningful object. 
  • Collages of small objects made on the scanner from which paintings and work in traditional media can be developed after manipulation or selecting a detail to enlarge.
  • Flower labels and cards: scan flower heads or leaves directly onto the glass, print onto thin card and cut out the shapes. Make a hole at one corner with a hole punch and tie on some ribbon or thread.   
  • Collages made from scans which are reassembled by hand (conventional cut and paste techniques) and rescanned.  
  • Archive storage: sketchbook pages can be scanned either to be developed by adding digital effects or to keep a digital record of the work (for formative assessment,  or to use as examples in future project introductions, or to exhibit on the school website or intranet).  
  • Cubism/joiner art projects: larger objects can be scanned piece by piece and reassembled  
  • Textures: scan small objects or interesting textures for backgrounds to web pages; scan details of outcomes from practical work with textiles as design motifs for cards, CD covers, flyers etc.
  • Textiles: use the scanner to generate designs for repeat patterns. 

 

Download two help-sheets by art teachers at Waldegrave Girls' High School, Twickenham: 

Using a Scanner  Word document [59KB] PDF [65KB]

Making Repeat Patterns Word document [59KB] PDF [65KB]


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