Hello wonderful artists!
FYI – Calendar for rest of the semester!:
Monday, April 12: Intro to Illustrator – Typography Self Portrait
Monday, April 19: Work day – Illustrator self portrait
Monday, April 26: Live check in – Illustrator project
Sunday, May 2: 8 p.m. Typography project due in Google Drive
Monday, May 3: Critique and Last class of the semester
Hello students! With this Illustrator typography project, you might want to consider downloading custom typefaces! Here is a great website that has thousands of options – DaFont
How to install:
1.Sift through to find a typeface you like
2. Press the “download” button
3. Find the file in your “downloads” – double click the .otf or .ttf file to instal in your FontBook.
4. Once installed in your FontBook – you can use the font on any platform on your computer!
Our next project will challenge the following skills:
Two things you need:
Student examples:
Online examples:
Once you gather your photo and the text you will be using, we will go over basic Illustrator pen tool skills.
The PEN tool – the pen tool is one of the most important tools to master in Illustrator. Throughout the semester you will get better at the pen tool, but only with lots of practice!
Selection vs. Direct Selection
Pen tool basics: add, subtract, convert, handlebars, curves, pencil
Fun interlude: Play this game for a few minutes to practice the pen tool 😉
More pen tool resources:
Other general Adobe Illustrator tutorials
Really good Type on a Path tutorial video
Mastery of Photoshop selection tools including: Quick Selection Tool, Magic Wand, Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush, Layers.
Assignment : Digital Collages:
Using Photoshop selection tools and the magic wand tool,
Use at least 3-4 different images in each collage – think about how to compose an interesting design with the images that you have. Remember to assess the formal Principles of Design – Balance, Repetition and Rhythm, Scale and Proportion, Contrast and Directional Forces. Be sure to save two versions – a .psd and a .jpg
I’d like your collages to be 75% images taken by YOU. If you need 1-2 stock images – please use pexels.com or unsplash.com for high quality, free images.
Think of a way to create a collage with any of the following themes: 1. Memory 2. Documentation 3. Texture (see above links for free texture images) 4. Fantastical Landscape 5. Self Portrait See Maggie Taylor’s work or Jerry Uelsmann’s b/w photo work for inspiration on fantastical digital collages.
Technical help with selection tools and masking:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/selection-tools-basics.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/making-quick-selections.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/select-mask.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/create-temporary-quick-mask.html
Requirements: (2) – 8″x10″ .jpgs
2D collage artists to reference:
Robert Rauschenberg – here and Norton exhibit
David Hockney as some really interesting photo collages
Hello students!
Hope you are having fun being a virtual Curator! Looking forward to seeing your projects. Below is some additional resources on Color and Color Theory.
“Theory of Colors” published in 1810: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seurat and Optical Color Mixture
Complementary vs Analogous
Great resource: Adobe Color CC
Guide to Understanding Color Theory
Enjoy your SPRING BREAK! And see you Monday, March 15 at 12:30 p.m. for intro to our Photoshop project.
Steps:
Final Result:
The goals of this project are to be introduced to a contemporary artist as well as major artists from art history, learn different color schemes and address and experiment with color theory.
Historic Examples of Artists who are known for their use of color:
Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh, Piet Mondrian, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keefe
Contemporary Artists that use Color as a way of Exploring the Figure:
Watch this: Nick Cave‘s “Soundsuits”
Wangechi Mutu and the Abstract, Magical Figure
Also quite obsessed by @faresmicuephotography seen below
Color Theory Resources:
DUE DATE: Uploaded to Google Drive by Monday, March 22, 12:30 p.m.
LINE: Jackson Pollock, Bridget Riley
SHAPE: Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder
COLOR: Pablo Picasso
MASS: Fernando Botero, Alberto Giacometti
TEXTURE: Vincent Van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer, Chuck Close, Jan Van Eyck, NEW BASICS textbook: pages 18-20
Loving Vincent: the first feature length painted movie!
Book reference: Alphabet: A Miscellany of Letters; A Catalog of Type by Mike Perry;
Over and Over: Patterns by Mike Perry.
Inspiration:
NEW BASICS textbook: pages 18-20
Word play assignment: On separate pieces of paper, explore the Visual Elements through typography.
Some examples:
Line: curvy, straight, ragged, jagged,
Shapes: round, flat, organic, bulbous, slick,
Color: bright, bold, clean, pastel, or you could go with super descriptive color words like burgundy, maroon, jade, cerulean. I just read the fantastic book The Secret Lives of Color and was really impressed with the amount of color words that we regularly forget.
Mass: considerable, huge, large, substantial
Texture: abrasive, angular, bouncy, bulky, feathery, hatched, icy, layered, piercing, pulpy, ragged, razor sharp, rough, sandy, sleek, swollen, transparent, wavy
PROJECT DUE uploaded to Google Drive, Feb. 28. by 8 p.m.
NEW Participation Requirement is VIRTUAL CRITIQUE : Monday, March 1 Make 1 positive comment and 1 constructive feedback comment on each student work on Critique Hub before we meet at 12:30 p.m. on Monday March 1.
Hello students!
Hope your artist book is coming along nicely! Don’t forget to do an email check in with me. Just a reminder that you are working at home this week – images (.jpg or .png) of your project are due uploaded to our Google Drive by Sunday Feb. 7, 8 p.m. We will meet on Blackboard Collaborate at 12:30 pm . on Monday, Feb. 8 for a “live critique” via our Critique Hub.
Images: Total: 3-5 + one short video
During the live critique I will ask you to show your book and turn the pages so we can see the physicality of the book as an object. You should talk about your concept, the materials you used and how you personally interpreted the project.
Don’t forget I also put a few former student video examples of the project in our class Google Drive.
Can’t wait to see what you produced for this first project!
Hello wonderful artists!
This week you are working from home on your artist book that showcases the Principles of Design. I hope you are off to a good start, have spent the week gathering your design concept and materials and are ready to start creating! Remember, any and all materials are acceptable – get messy! (Here is a fun mixed media piece I created with the same title)
I also did a separate post on being able to see the Principles of Design in Graphic Design.
Need some inspiration? Go back to the original post, check out Pinterest – or see additional inspiration here:
Popular Kinetics Artist Book Exhibit
Be sure to send me an “email check in” this week with your concept! If you have an idea but not sure how to bind it, please ask and I will point you in the right direction!
