Have a great spring break!
Bring your portfolio on Tuesday in any form:
1. A CD or drive of digital images
2. slides to scan
3. Pieces to photograph
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
composition vocabulary
symmetry/ asymmetry (mirroring)
balance/ instability
continuity/ discontinuity (is there a visual path?)
rhythm (repetitions of shapes)
arhythmic (non repeating)
quadrants (divide the painting into four equal sections)
planes (flat shapes parallel to the picture plane)
movement (flow of motion along a path of continuity)
stagnant (are the objects locked together and immobile?)
dynamism (powerful, dramatic movement)
chairoscuro (extreme separation between light and dark)
horizontal axis
vertical axis
curves (create movement within a painting)
curve sequences (visual paths based on curves)
visual array (a group of forms which seem related, although not in a visual path)
balance/ instability
continuity/ discontinuity (is there a visual path?)
rhythm (repetitions of shapes)
arhythmic (non repeating)
quadrants (divide the painting into four equal sections)
planes (flat shapes parallel to the picture plane)
movement (flow of motion along a path of continuity)
stagnant (are the objects locked together and immobile?)
dynamism (powerful, dramatic movement)
chairoscuro (extreme separation between light and dark)
horizontal axis
vertical axis
curves (create movement within a painting)
curve sequences (visual paths based on curves)
visual array (a group of forms which seem related, although not in a visual path)
For Tuesday, immediately following spring break
Bring a digital portfolio on CD or external drive or
Bring work to photograph
Bring work to photograph
Saturday, March 17, 2007
assignment inventory pre spring break
Due Thursday before spring break:
Printed Assignments:
1. Photo tools assignment, composed in PS and laid out in Illustrator. You should have close to 20 experimental tiles, with labeling. 5 or 6 images arranged on the page will not be rated highly. See earlier posts in this blog for examples
2. Simple geometric composition in illustrator. (Robot Drawing) To rate highly in this project demonstrate varied stroke width, different color stroke and fill, object transparency, object rotation, object transform, and cloning an object using the black arrow and the option key.
3. Irregular geometric composition in illustrator. (animal drawing?) it should have all of the qualities of the simple geometric composition and also demonstrate your mastery of the difference between the black arrow and the white arrow. Use irregular geometry to demonstrate your ability to manipulate individual points of objects.
4. a compositional analysis with transparent irregular shapes and a locked background (we are working on this in class)
5. A second compositional analysis
6. Notes for a presentation of your analysis
7. You will present one visual analysis for the class on Thursday, so one must be uploaded to this blog, or we will use homeroom if it is really too difficult. Uploading will be dealt with at the end of tuesday's class.
ALL PRINTS ARE DUE THURSDAY. I WILL NOT ACCEPT LATE ASSIGNMENTS IN THIS INSTANCE. I WILL NOT CHECK MY MAILBOX OVER SPRING BREAK. PLEASE PLAN AHEAD AND RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MEET THE DUE DATE. IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON MISSING CLASS FOR ANY REASON YOU MUST MAKE UP THE WORK BEFORE YOU LEAVE, NOT AFTERWARD.
Thanks, have a great weekend, and enjoy your spring break barbeques
Isaac
Printed Assignments:
1. Photo tools assignment, composed in PS and laid out in Illustrator. You should have close to 20 experimental tiles, with labeling. 5 or 6 images arranged on the page will not be rated highly. See earlier posts in this blog for examples
2. Simple geometric composition in illustrator. (Robot Drawing) To rate highly in this project demonstrate varied stroke width, different color stroke and fill, object transparency, object rotation, object transform, and cloning an object using the black arrow and the option key.
3. Irregular geometric composition in illustrator. (animal drawing?) it should have all of the qualities of the simple geometric composition and also demonstrate your mastery of the difference between the black arrow and the white arrow. Use irregular geometry to demonstrate your ability to manipulate individual points of objects.
4. a compositional analysis with transparent irregular shapes and a locked background (we are working on this in class)
5. A second compositional analysis
6. Notes for a presentation of your analysis
7. You will present one visual analysis for the class on Thursday, so one must be uploaded to this blog, or we will use homeroom if it is really too difficult. Uploading will be dealt with at the end of tuesday's class.
ALL PRINTS ARE DUE THURSDAY. I WILL NOT ACCEPT LATE ASSIGNMENTS IN THIS INSTANCE. I WILL NOT CHECK MY MAILBOX OVER SPRING BREAK. PLEASE PLAN AHEAD AND RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MEET THE DUE DATE. IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON MISSING CLASS FOR ANY REASON YOU MUST MAKE UP THE WORK BEFORE YOU LEAVE, NOT AFTERWARD.
Thanks, have a great weekend, and enjoy your spring break barbeques
Isaac
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Does it articulately tell the story?
Is it successful as a painting?
Does it have depth (multiple layers of imagery: background, middle, foreground)?
Do foreground characters function autonomously from other layers, or are they cemented to the background?
Does it function as theatre?
Is it interesting?
Is it tiled properly, mounted on foam core or board, for a complete physical product?
Is it uploaded to this blog?
Is it successful as a painting?
Does it have depth (multiple layers of imagery: background, middle, foreground)?
Do foreground characters function autonomously from other layers, or are they cemented to the background?
Does it function as theatre?
Is it interesting?
Is it tiled properly, mounted on foam core or board, for a complete physical product?
Is it uploaded to this blog?
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Monday, March 5, 2007
upload procedure
1. Open the .jpg file with no layers you saved for printing.
2. Image> Image Size> Reduce W to 15 in. H will change automatically
3. SAVE AS> (a new version filenamesmall.jpg)
4. Upload to this blog
5. You must both print the project and upload it for full credit. Failure to upload will not be awarded a high grade.
2. Image> Image Size> Reduce W to 15 in. H will change automatically
3. SAVE AS> (a new version filenamesmall.jpg)
4. Upload to this blog
5. You must both print the project and upload it for full credit. Failure to upload will not be awarded a high grade.
Printing Procedure
Visual Elements Digital Tools Printing Procedures
Photoshop
Before you start, save a version of your file with all of the layers as a .psd document.
One last time, check Image> Image Size and make sure the image is 24x30x150
Layer> Flatten Image> Discard Hidden Layers
Save As (a new version of the file .jpg)
Then:
1>
View> Rulers
2>
View> Grid
View> Snap To> Snap to Grid
3>
Pull Guides from Rulers> every 8 inches horizontally> every 10 inches vertically
4>
Marquee Tool> Fixed Marquee> 8 in x 10 in
Fit into guides
5>
File> New> 8 x 10 x 150
6>
From larger document to the offloader, cut> paste> print
Complete all 9 tiles
Photoshop
Before you start, save a version of your file with all of the layers as a .psd document.
One last time, check Image> Image Size and make sure the image is 24x30x150
Layer> Flatten Image> Discard Hidden Layers
Save As (a new version of the file .jpg)
Then:
1>
View> Rulers
2>
View> Grid
View> Snap To> Snap to Grid
3>
Pull Guides from Rulers> every 8 inches horizontally> every 10 inches vertically
4>
Marquee Tool> Fixed Marquee> 8 in x 10 in
Fit into guides
5>
File> New> 8 x 10 x 150
6>
From larger document to the offloader, cut> paste> print
Complete all 9 tiles
Sunday, March 4, 2007
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