Photo Stamping: the artsy side of technology

Big Idea: Take a picture, using a digital camera of each teen then transfer and transform their portrait into a watercolors painting.

Associated Concepts: An more artistic activity in digital photography to help the Design IT kids become better familiarized in using the digital cameras. This knowledge will help them with future activities within the Spring 2007 Photography Cycle.

Participants: Coaches present were Rockey and Eric, Joey is the intern for Northside. We had about 12 participants with about 5 new faces.

Activity: Each teen had a picture of themselves taken and printed out on normal printer paper. From then we tape the picture face on a piece of mat board . With a wet sponge we dabbed the paper until the colors transferred to the mat board surface giving the illusion of a watercolors painting.

Best Part: The kids really enjoyed this project. We started out with three participating ended with twelve, good news travels fast.

Worst Part: It is always better be over prepared than under prepared. We would have had a few more kids participate if we had a few more mat boards.

Improvements: Get internet access and bring more supplies.