Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011

Project 4: Lecture

Project 4: Website Concept

Project 4 website assignment (My Space)
An Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver

Create a website that documents a space of personal significance (exe. bedroom, desk, workspace or locker.) Highlight 5 items located within the environment, each item should be accompanied by a brief factual description that describes the significance of the selected items. Consider a concept or theme for the website. Perhaps your website documents your movie collection or your wardrobe. Your goal is to tell a story that weaves the viewer through an appropriate personal space using the items as central characters within the environment.

Questions to consider:
• How do the items relate to one another?
• How do the items relate to you?
• Do the items have a personal significance?
• What memories do the items invoke?

Homepage:
Design your homepage in Photoshop, organizing a composition that employs the various principals of design (balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis and unity.) Feel free to explore a range of artistic solutions when designing of your homepage. Strongly employ the principle of unity in an effort to organize a cohesive website.

Homepage Requirements:
• Background image
• Headline
• Paragraph describing the space and the items (4-5 sentences)
• 5 links to your interior pages

Sub Pages:
Each sub page will display a photo of a highlighted item, accompanied by a brief description of the item. There will be 5 sub pages in total, one for each item.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Photoshop Layer Tutorial

Mastering Photoshop's Layers Tutorial from che mcpherson on Vimeo.

Project 2: Digital Imaging (Mood)

Medium: Digital Photography, Mixed Medium

Size: An orientation of your choosing (2D, 3D, Video, Collage etc.)

Using the array of digital tools at your disposal (Adobe Photoshop, Digital Camera, Scanner, Drawing Mediums etc.) Create a piece that visually expresses an emotional state, such as anger, fear, sadness, happiness or euphoria. Strongly consider how the application of color articulates your chosen emotion visually. Do warmer colors accurately convey a sense of sadness? Perhaps cooler shades of blue and green are more appropriate in this instance. Also, strongly consider the nature of the content and forms within your composition. Perhaps your project is a self portrait, collage or abstract representation of your respective mood. Think beyond the obvious representations of mood, avoid emoticons (smiley and sad faces) in pursuit of a compelling and intelligent concept.

Requirements
• Capture at least 10 photographs that support your concept.
• Project must include at least 1 scanned component

Journal: Take photos of the 6 elements and the 7 principles.  One photo per definition.  Remember to change the image size and place them onto your blog.  Place all of your photos onto your flashdrive.

Mood Examples

Amusement
Aggravation
Joy
Euphoria
Depressed
Melancholy
Shocked

Lecture 2 - Color

http://www.slideshare.net/rmyers131/art-101002-project2-color-lecture