Dazzle 03

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KS2 (Years 3 - 6)

Art & Design, ICT & Design & Technology

This product is published by Indigo Learning Ltd (Tel: 01480 354335)

Dazzle 03 is an excellent, flexible paint package which lives up to it's publisher's claim 'to inspire creativity'. Children were enthusiastic about experimenting with colour, size, stamp images, symmetry, rotation, auto shapes and text in order to create their own designs using a computer.

I used the program in a series of Art lessons linked to the QCA Unit 6A (People in Action). In this unit, the children are asked to represent figures and forms in movement and in particular we looked at Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. The children were introduced to Dazzle 03 at the beginning of the unit and were allowed to investigate the features by creating pictures of static people. We then moved on to looking at using other tools to create a feel of movement, including the stamp tool and the copy brush. These elements provided the children with the challenge they needed in order to extend both their art and ICT skills.