Provide digital tools for artistic expression and art exploration

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.


Surreal Symmetry

After learning about surrealism, students use symmetry to develop their own surrealist work exploring good and bad.


Pop Art Montage

After learning about pop art and the images created by Andy Warhol, students choose an iconic image and create their own pop art montage.

image of student-created pop art montage

Arcimboldo-style Self-portraits

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.


Paint with Pointillism

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.


Make a Mondrian

Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, is best known for his work that used primary colors, white and black in simplified lines and shapes on canvas.

image of student-created Mondrian cat

Create a Klimt-style Tree of Life

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.

student-created scratch art image of Klimt's Tree of Life

Georgia O'Keeffe – Take time to look

After exploring samples of Georgia O’Keeffe’s magnified flowers, student take close up images with a digital camera and use them as inspiration for close-up flower images created using paint brush and smudge tools.

student-created flower in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe

Create Spooky Scenes

After learning about silhouettes, students combine silhouettes they have created with Halloween backgrounds to create spooky scenes.


Tessellations

Engage students in learning about different geometric transformations by having them use Wixie to create their own rotation and reflection tessellations.


Visual Art Portfolios

Have students create art portfolios that include both images of their work and reflections on their process and progress.


Symmetry

Have students use symmetry to explore balance in their artwork.


Create Silhouette Scenes

Students can use the paint tools to draw silhouettes of objects as well as create silhouette scenes using stickers from the Image library.

student-created scratch art image of Klimt's Tree of Life
Visual Arts Ideas Guide for Wixie

Visual Arts Ideas Guide

Ways to use Wixie's tools and template use Wixie's tools and templates to help students explore the elements of art, great artists, and a range of artistic styles.

Explore the guide!

Iron Man

Real life poses

Self Expression

Media Arts

Design Projects

Abstract Art

Elements of Art: Movement

Elements of Art: Color

Nick Cave-Inspired Sound Suits

Arcimboldo-Inspired Portraits

Pop Art

STEAM

George Rodrigue-Inspired Dogs

Pop Art

Exploring the Color Wheel

Collage Art in the Style of Eric Carle

Collage Art in the Style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Scratch Art

Art Porfolios

Portraiture

Abstract Art

Silhouette Art

Illustrating Comics

Pop Art

Balance and Symmetry

Students are using Wixie to bring their words, their voice, and their art to the curriculum.

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