The boys have been learning the basic skills in transforming their portrait colour photograph to black and white and using some of the filters breaking it down so there are only a few tones. We are using this as the basis of the following lead pencil drawing task. 

The boys have been taught how to get a variety of tones out of lead pencils with some skills exercises done in class. These are very useful and important stepping stones into the program that runs in year 8 through to year 12. 

Photoshop is used now as a compositional tool by all art students regularly.

Finlay Kroon