Art and Photo classes together

Yesterday, I, Glória, photography teacher, and Thamy, art teacher, taught together about texture.

Taken by Thami.

During the outdoor photo class, Thami took the picture above to teach texture painting to his students.

I took the opportunity to talk to the teens that texture, an element of visual language used by photographers, is a technique comes from painting. On the other hand, to show the art students that the technique is been learnt can also be used in photography.

Thami explained what is texture, such as the undulations of the surface on the photo above.

It was a good opportunity to show them that photography and painting can be used together as a language of artistic expression. 

I showed them more photos in the book "The new manual of photography", by John Hedgecoe. The kids were surprised how the texture photos look like paintings.

We talked that texture can be used, for example, to show details of something. As the photo of roots of tree on the page 218 in the John Hedgecoe's book. 

"You can take photo of all tree or just its roots. Everybody will know that is a tree. You can play with texture! Shoot from differents points of view. Try differents angles. Play with cameras!", I said.

I, Glória and teens.

Thami and teens.