Lottie's winning design used on the Art Blast T-shirt and invitations.

Most of the year Senior Classes enjoyed the opportunity to develop their contour line drawing skills, while some found it very challenging. They were amongst the quietest art lessons I have had all year, the concentration of capturing a line on paper was so intense. Below are those images selected by the students themselves as being the best to go into the competition. We were all thrilled when we found pout that Lottie's design had won.

Caolan	Jasmin	Who
Ben	Vincent	Jayme

Laura	Millie	Danny

As part of the whole school project on Thinking Skills in 2002, in the Art Classes I had been investigating the use of SCAMPER as a Creative Thinking Tool.

The tools from within SCAMPER, which we used for the T-shirt design ideas, were

 A - Add - including the concepts of multiples and repeats

 S - Substitute

 R - Rearrange

The following are some of the suggestions made by students from the Year 6/7 class.

1. Text
Use Contour line type drawing/lettering for the title Art Blast

2. Image

· Add

Colour-
Pick out features such as eyes and hair
Just as a plain square around it for background.
Pick out shapes like half a face “space” that is created by overlapping lines
Work with a negative line image on a colour background
A mixture of colours applied to the background – could be regular or non-regular
A face in the centre surrounded by flower petals – different colours

Multiple images
Overlapping of images – just like a “shake” (slide) use different colours for each face lines
Mirror, so that the face is looking at itself – or away from itself
Flip, to get combinations of head against head

Substitute, subtract, fragment, reduce
Cut the image up and reposition randomly
Fracture the image by “Blasting” it apart in like slivers of mirror
Work with a smaller image – photo reduce.
Place 4 times (like an Andy Warhol - Marilyn Munro print) with different background colours behind each one
Use more than one image – it was really hard for us to just pick the best ones from our own classes
Use one large image and surround it with smaller other or the same images.
Join enough heads together at around about the necks or shoulders to create a new circular image.
Cut the face in half and just use half a face once (or twice)
Overlap mirrored faces

Rearrange
Position of design on the T-shirt
Instead of in the middle where it usually is, the design could go up on the side.
Face could even be somehow “looking up at the wearer”

If you wish to know more about the SCAMPER tool then a search using the key words scamper creative thinking will give you a number of sites to visit.

Below are some of the collaborative art works created as a result of applying the SCAMPER Thinking Tool. The students chose the image they wished to develop further and I photocopied them onto cartridge paper to take the oil pastels and edicol dye.

Jayme	Duo

Lottie3	Triad

Quad	Nadja