Wednesday, March 2

Please place your finished piece in the hallway (in the PAC where you found them) with revisions by 5:30 on Tuesday to receive the opportunity for a bump in grade from critique today. No homework besides possible revisions. If you are happy with your critique go ahead and hang it up. Your artist statement will be placed with your piece on Tuesday.

Monday, Feb. 29

For critique - Dress in business casual. Have your works magic taped, printed 6x6 dimension and behind glass in the frame. Be ready to discuss your project in terms of material, design principals and how you made it.

Have a printed design summary. Follow the specifications. NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN THE WRITING OF THE SUMMARY. Minimum of 2 paragraphs about the collage series. 3 inch top margin. Title of work (left aligned) - 13 pt Garamond in italics for title only. Double space and paragraph one / Garamond type 11 pt single space for rest of summary (no indents), double space, paragraph two (no indents), double space, Name, year. Below is a sample.

The "deadly cute" interpretation is due on Monday in digital form. Those not here - use your skills to interpret the phrase "deadly cute" in a photo manipulation. Have fun with it.  

Wednesday, Feb. 24 and Friday, Feb. 26

Please remember NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY!! Please use the day as a work day on your collages.

You will have three sets of collage roughs due on Friday. They will be 6 in x 6 inches big. Please have all nine print out and cut to size for class on Friday. Those that will be absent please send me a drop box or google drive link so you can get critique on them. Those that have scholars on Friday you will go first on talking with me about your ideas. Again, use Wednesday as a work day. Think about the commentary that the images, the materials you are using and they support the message. Have some fun and cut loose on this assignment. First big project will be due on Monday in critique. I will have the directions for critique posted on the blog on Friday for Monday.

Monday, Feb. 22

Please have your double exposure prints printed out on 8.5x11 vertical and placed in your 16x20 quick frame (get at hobby lobby - use 40% coupon) for class on Monday. Place the two portraits (should be opposites) in the frame facing or opposite directions of one another. The exposures should be your portrait and then it's opposite overlayed (ex. ex. nature vs. architecture, water vs. land, hard vs. soft. etc). Please have these mounted side by side in frame on black background (turn the stock image that comes with the frame over - will find this is black).

Friday, Feb. 19

Please colorize an old B&W family photo. Call home if you don't have an image to use. I'm sure there is some where a picture out there to colorize. Your vintage celebrity colorized photo will also be due on Friday in class.

Also if you would be interested in having your pixel portrait displayed in Barefoots with our current portrait show please bring your pixel person printed in class in the frame that you bought for the class and we will put it up. Please consider bringing one - would love to display your work in with this show.

For those that missed today - here's a tutorial on how to accomplish this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Srw245R7U

Wednesday, Feb. 17

Please have your celebrity time travel and signs for the narrator assignments are due on Wednesday. Please have the files ready to view in class. We will still be meeting in the dms lab since our instructor computer is not installed in our new lab. See ya then!

Monday, Feb. 15

Don't forget to post your meme to your Facebook page.

Please have your pencil vs. camera assignment ready to view in class on Monday. Save as a psd file in your folder.

In the file you are to layer your pencil or pen drawing on paper (must be scanned in) over a background photo of your choice. Take a photo of your hand and composite this so it looks like you are holding the drawing over the image. Have fun with this and take us to a fun alternative reality.

See examples:

Friday, Feb. 12

Please have your digital portrait assignment saved and ready to view in class. Also have your move and cut landscape ready to view as well.

To move and cut - marquee and area with the lasso or marquee. Make sure your layers are rasterized. Use the move tool to move the marquee area to make the cut.

Here are some examples of cut landscapes.

Wednesday, Feb. 10

Have your altered landscape ready to view in class. Please save to your art folder. Find an image of a landscape and place (cut and paste) some interesting architecture into the altered landscape. Please make sure the file is 8.5x11, 150 resolution. Final file will be black and white - save it as a grayscale which will merge the layers. Make sure you save as this file as assignment2.5 that way you have a file with layers and one file with merged layers. Use the tools that you learned in class to make these photographs merge. Make sure you have a story about these landscapes and who lives there to tell in class about the work.

Here are some examples of Adam Ryder's work

Monday, Feb. 8

Please have your push all the buttons assignment in photoshop ready to look over in class on Monday. Make sure you pull it open from your folder. We will get deeper into the program on Monday. Please study your design principles there will be a quiz on that and other additional material on Wednesday next week.