Jan. 30th

Focus:  This is an example of a specific color scheme.  Name that scheme...

Objectives:

• Select Portrait and get approved
• Use a US paper format.
• Create a typography portrait using text only.
• Use a variety of words and/or letters to complete your composition.
• Trace contour lines and fill in  values to complete image.

Closure:  Review: What part of this composition do you think the artist is trying to emphasize?  How did they achieve this emphasis?

Jan. 29th

Focus:  This is an example of a specific color scheme.  Name that scheme...

Objectives:

• Select Portrait and get approved
• Use a US paper format.
• Create a typography portrait using text only.
• Use a variety of words and/or letters to complete your composition.
• Trace contour lines and fill in  values to complete image.

Closure:  Review: Does this image use the rule of thirds?  Explain your answer.

Jan. 28th

Focus:  This is an example of a specific color scheme.  Name that scheme...

Objectives:

• Select Portrait and get approved
• Use a US paper format.
• Create a typography portrait using text only.
• Use a variety of words and/or letters to complete your composition.
• Trace contour lines and fill in  values to complete image.

Closure:  Review: Does this image use the rule of thirds?  Explain your answer.

Jan. 27th

Focus:  This is an example of a specific color scheme.  Name that scheme...

Objectives:

• Select Portrait and get approved
• Use a US paper format.
• Create a typography portrait using text only.
• Use a variety of words and/or letters to complete your composition.
• Trace contour lines and fill in  values to complete image.

Closure:  What can you do if you want to EMPHASIS a word of phrase in your typography portrait?

Jan. 24th

Focus:  This is an example of....???

Objectives:

• Select Portrait and get approved
• Use a US paper format.
• Create a typography portrait using text only.
• Use a variety of words and/or letters to complete your composition.
• Trace contour lines and fill in  values to complete image.

Closure:  When creating your typography portrait, it is important to have variety.  What does this mean?

Jan. 23rd

Focus:  Please review the instructions before setting up your file for the final exam.  If you've already started, please make sure your file is set up appropriately.

Final Exam File [Instructions]

1. Create a new US Paper file.

2. Copy your image from the internet at full size and paste it into your file.

3. Free transform your image (holding shift to avoid warping) and expand your image to fit your file. 

4. Be sure to match your file orientation to your image. (Ex. a horizontal image should be pasted on a "landscape" file.

5. You should now have a blank background, and a layer 1 (which should be your image).

6. Make your image black and white (Image>Adjust>Black & White)

7. Posterize your image. (Image>Adjust>Posterize)

8. Set your levels to and number between 3 & 5.

9. Duplicate your layer 4 times.  (CTRL-J)

10. Decide if you are going to have a white or black background.  If you choose white, you are already set up.  If you choose black, click on your background layer and dump black in using the paint bucket.  

11. Create folders.  You will create one less folder than you have levels.  (Ex. If you have 4 levels, you should have 3 folders.)  If your background is white, you will not have a white folder.  If your background if black, you will not have a black folder. 

12.  Create a layer in each folder to start.  You may wind up having several layers in each folder. 

13.  See example to compare to your set-up.  This example is is posterized to level 5 with a black background.

Objectives:

Demo for Final Exam

Select Portrait and get approved

Closure:  If you posterize a black & white image to level 4, how many gray tones will you have in your image?

Jan. 17th

Focus: Identify the color scheme of this image?  Is it a good choice for the subject matter?

Objectives:

Demo for Final Exam

Select Portrait and get approved

Closure:  If you posterize a black & white image to level 5, how many gray tones will you have in your image?

Jan 16th

Focus: Identify the color scheme of this image?  Is it a good choice for the subject matter?

Objectives:

Demo for Final Exam

Select Portrait and get approved

Closure:  What does it mean to "posterize" an image in Photoshop?

Jan. 14th

Practical Test

[Check your email.  Download the file I sent you today.  Open it in Photoshop and save it as (1st initial - last name- Post Test.psd)  Don't forget to type the file extension (.psd).]  

Jan. 13th

Focus: This image is an example of....

Objectives:

Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)

Import 3 .jpg images  and create 1 text file for mandala  template.

Using redial design, balance and unity create a mandala with personal meaning on an 10"x 10" - 300 res. file

Review and apply skills taught in previous lessons (shape, line, texture, typography) to create three images that are related to your   word literally or conceptually.

Create 4 mandalas and upload best design[s].  Show me all four before uploading.

Closure:  Identify what type of balance is used in these compositions.

Image A

Image B

Image C

Jan. 10

Focus:  In your won words, explain "Composition" and it's relationship to visual arts.

Objectives:

Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)

Import 3 .jpg images  and create 1 text file for mandala  template.

Using redial design, balance and unity create a mandala with personal meaning on an 10"x 10" - 300 res. file

Review and apply skills taught in previous lessons (shape, line, texture, typography) to create three images that are related to your   word literally or conceptually.

Create 4 mandalas and upload best design[s].  Show me all four before uploading.

Closure:  How do you change the saturation and hue of a layer in Photoshop?

Jan. 9th

Focus: Shape is an element of art.  Identify these sets of shapes and explain the difference between the two.

Objectives:

Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)

Import 3 .jpg images  and create 1 text file for mandala  template.

Using redial design, balance and unity create a mandala with personal meaning on an 10"x 10" - 300 res. file

Review and apply skills taught in previous lessons (shape, line, texture, typography) to create three images that are related to your   word literally or conceptually.

Create 4 mandalas and upload best design[s].  Show me all four before uploading.

Closure:

Jan. 8th

Focus:  Radial balance:  ...occurs when all the elements radiate out from a central point and the visual weight is distributed equally. Radial balance creates a strong focal point in the center of the design. Clock faces and daisies are examples of radial balance.

Objectives:

Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)

Import 3 .jpg images  and create 1 text file for mandala  template.

Using redial design, balance and unity create a mandala with personal meaning on an 10"x 10" - 300 res. file

Review and apply skills taught in previous lessons (shape, line, texture, typography) to create three images that are related to your   word literally or conceptually.

Create 4 mandalas and upload best design[s].  Show me all four before uploading.

Closure:

 Space is an element of art.  Give 2 examples of how to accomplish space in art.

Jan. 7th

Focus:
Copy into Evernote:

Mandala - The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean "circle," a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself--a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.

Objectives:

Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)

Import 3 .jpg images  and create 1 text file for mandala  template.

Using redial design, balance and unity create a mandala with personal meaning on an 10"x 10" - 300 res. file

Review and apply skills taught in previous lessons (shape, line, texture, typography) to create three images that are related to your   word literally or conceptually.

Create 4 mandalas and upload best design[s].  Show me all four before uploading.

Closure:    Form is an element of art.  Explain how shape is different from form. 

 

Jan. 6th

Focus:  Complete the following.

Warm Colors:
Cool Colors:
Neutral Colors:
Primary:
Secondary:
Complimentary:
Tints:
Shades:


Objectives:

Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)

Import 3 .jpg images  and create 1 text file for mandala  template.

Using redial design, balance and unity create a mandala with personal meaning on an 10"x 10" - 300 res. file

Review and apply skills taught in previous lessons (shape, line, texture, typography) to create three images that are related to your   word literally or conceptually.

Closure:  What is a monochromatic color scheme?  

Mandala

Mandala

January 2, 2014

Focus:   Repetition/Rhythm/Pattern are principles of design.  How do they relate to each other and what are the similarities and differences?

Objectives:

• View Demo for Mandala
• Identify your 3 graphics and 1 word (get approval)
• Complete 7 letter sculpture

Closure:  How is framing used in art composition?