High quality art education provides students with opportunities to create, perform, produce, present, respond, and connect as they learn to use art for the purposes of communication, creative self-expression, community engagement, and more.
Wixie is the perfect digital canvas for students "conceiving and developing artistic ideas and work." Students can use Wixie's tools for self-expression, to share their learning of art and artist exploration, as well as develop portfolios to demonstrate mastery and reflection on their own artistic journeys.
After learning about surrealism, students use symmetry to develop their own surrealist work exploring good and bad.
After learning about pop art and the images created by Andy Warhol, students choose an iconic image and create their own pop art montage.
Guiseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He is known best for his portraits of people that use objects like fruit and books. After learning about his, work students can use Wixie's Stickers to create self-portraits.
Pointillism is a style of painting developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, which uses individual dots of color to create the illusion of shapes and even additional colors. After learning about pointillism, students use Wixie's brush tool and click (no dragging!) to make many small dots that form an image.
Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, is best known for his work that used primary colors, white and black in simplified lines and shapes on canvas. Young learners can simply fill the Mondrian Coloring page to create their own version. Older students can use Wixie's paint tools to draw geometric designs in his style.
Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life is one of his most recognizable paintings. Search "Klimt" in Wixie and use the Eraser tool to create your own Klimt-style tree using a scratch art-style template.
Engage students in learning about different geometric transformations by having them use Wixie to create their own rotation and reflection tessellations.
Have students create art portfolios that include both images of their work and reflections on their process and progress.
Students can use the paint tools to draw silhouettes of objects as well as create silhouette scenes using stickers from the Image library.
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— Jesse R. Ellison (@jesserellison) March 11, 2019
Third grade Ss adding their latest art work to their digital portfolio using Wixie. @Tech4Learning @BrownWarrenES @WarrenES_BCPS pic.twitter.com/kDbFCNkNtu
— Kathleen O. Harmon (@KHarmon17) March 23, 2017
#DPES Art, 2nd graders creating Wixie pumpkins inspired by Yayoi Kusama pic.twitter.com/KIkDiQuAyV
— Marta Biddinger (@DavisMlee71) December 6, 2017
2nd grade Fall Pop Art using Wixie @HumbleISD_TE @HumbleISD_DL #teinspires @HumbleISD pic.twitter.com/lIdBP7nKSq
— Laura Frey (@TimbersTech) November 13, 2017
Wixie color wheels shared on our padlet! Way to go! #wixie #padlet pic.twitter.com/CQl6lfI5vE
— Bren Mar Park Art (@BMP_Artists) May 17, 2020
Kinders make a collage on Wixie like Eric Carle's illustrations #collage #wixie #art @BCPSODL #bcpslms pic.twitter.com/kIX42aFIXA
— WestTowsonESLibrary (@WTESLibrary) April 28, 2016
Students experimenting with Wixie layering shapes and visual forms to build imaginary cities ?? and creating Giuseppe Arcimboldo-inspired portraits from foods ???? @JoppaViewES pic.twitter.com/1iD8PHkDF3
— Mrs. Renner (@JVESart) March 25, 2018
“Old school” scratch art vs. Wixie scratch art. Both are winners here @CalvertESCCPS! #wixie @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/H91fKQKXnk
— Calvert Elementary (@CalvertESCCPS) May 4, 2018
3rd graders created Digital Art Portfolios & About the Artist pages in Wixie @visualartsbcps @PadoniaPride pic.twitter.com/wg1PsaufBq
— Julia Capallo (@PIESartBCPS) September 7, 2016
Grange ES Studio 10 gr 1 use wixie to create their art portfolios EMPOWERED @visualartsbcps @GrangeES pic.twitter.com/GMWv390WhP
— Linda Popp (@lpoppart) December 1, 2017
First grade students combine traditional art materials with technology as they learn about Georgia O’Keefe. Wixie used as presentation and creation software to share information. @visualartsbcps @Edgemere_BCPS @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/tYd3FFclGu
— Greg Flach (@Mountaineer94) January 5, 2018
Gr 2, digital portfolio & exploring portraiture using art tools in Wixie @PadoniaPride pic.twitter.com/d8ea5zFkGU
— Julia Capallo (@PIESartBCPS) February 8, 2017
Examples of some of my 2nd Grade students Wixie abstract design experiments this week. @mikejferris2 @GreeceCentral @AutumnLaneGCSD @GCSDsuper pic.twitter.com/uEDRqxgJSN
— Janice wiggins (@Janicewigg) May 12, 2020
we made it with #wixie pic.twitter.com/lFJVfgLWMZ
— Kimberly Stevens (@TechIgnites) January 20, 2016
Make silhoutte art in Pixie (or Wixie) https://t.co/dPbxJD7sR5 Thx @DanShinneman pic.twitter.com/XfeQ351NNc
— Tech4Learning (@Tech4Learning) April 24, 2017
Fifth Grade students @LakeShoreAACPS used digital art program, WIXIE, to write dialogue and create comic strips as an ELA assignment. Students engaged in peer re-vision and iteration to produce comic strips. #AACPSAwesome #AACPSArtsIntegration pic.twitter.com/L5wrs8Mvei
— AACPSArtsIntegration (@AACPSArtsEngage) December 1, 2017
Wixie pop art shared on our padlet! We watched the Tate Kids video about pop art and created our own! pic.twitter.com/TwsPEI0vNH
— Bren Mar Park Art (@BMP_Artists) May 27, 2020
5th graders used Wixie & Active Inspire in art class to create radial & symmetrical designs #BCPSLH @visualartsbcps pic.twitter.com/U9q5JrJdzH
— Chase Elementary (@chasebcps) October 22, 2015
Students are using Wixie to bring their words, their voice, and their art to the curriculum.
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