Radial Designs (Rashi School Online Lesson)

Hello everyone! This is a lesson for my students at The Rashi School. I hope you'll join along.

Today you'll be exploring the online drawing app Myoats. First, watch the tutorial below. Then, go the webpage and experiment with the techniques I've demonstrated in the tutorial to create a design with radial symmetry. Finally, try out some of the techniques by completing several design challenges.

MyOats Tutorial Video

Prompts:
Plan to spend approximately 10 minutes on each project.

1. Create a radial design using just black and white.
2. Create a radial design that expresses how you're feeling about what's going on in the world right now
3. Create a radial design that makes you feel calm. 
4. Create a radial design by writing your name in cursive with your finger or mouse, at least four times.
5. Create a radial design that makes you feel dizzy.

Skills reviewed in the tutorial:

• Mirror 
• Changing brush colors
• Choosing number of axes
• Darkening/lightening colors
• Changing brushes
• Varying brush size
• Varying opacity
• Creating dots
• Undoing work
• Downloading finished work
• There is a guide to all of the functions on Myoats here

Vocabulary:

• Opacity
• Radial Symmetry