Saturday, August 31, 2013

sept 3-6_scanning and introduction to Photoshop

Today:

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2. Think about your collage:
  • List 10 things that come into your mind when you think about the phrase "digital age".
  • What is a connection between your collage and the "digital age"?
  • What is a connection between your collage and one other class at Hillwood?


 Check your grades

  • sketchbook and daily assignments are due on the day assigned
  • may be made up only if absent
  • missing = 50

Cell phones and electronic devices are your responsibility. Protect them if you use them for classwork. They should only be used for classwork.

 Also, for grade today:

1. Trace over part of your collage 
    Use tracing paper and pens provided
    Close all shapes that you trace


2. Scan your tracing for a grade





sketch for 10 minutes

Sketchbook examples
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Introduction to Photoshop

 What I want you to know or do:

1. How to open Photoshop
2. How to create a new document in Photoshop
3. How to set the default workspace
4. How to save the document
5. How to use the Paint Bucket Tool

Directions:


You can click on each image to make it larger.

Scroll down to "how to create a new file and save it". Create a new file and save it according to directions. Save this assignment as "your first name & last name _intro to photoshop". For example "steve campbell_intro to photoshop". Save onto the desktop.

Scroll down to "photoshop default settings".

Set Photoshop to the Default Workspace by doing one of the following:
1. In the top menu bar, go to Window>Workspace>Essentials.
2. Reset the default settings: Quit Photoshop. Restart Photoshop while holding down Command+Option+Shift. Hold these keys down until you see a window that asks "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings File? Click Yes.

Find Photoshop Basic Tools to guide you.

Click on the Move Tool in the Tools Palette. Look in the top Options Bar. Right under the word Photoshop, check Auto-Select. Click the pull down menu that says Group and select Layer.

Click and hold on the Rectangle Tool and select the Custom Shape Tool.
Click and drag in your document window to create a custom shape. Press return.

Click and hold on the Gradient Tool and select the Paint Bucket.

Click on the Swatches palette. Leave it open to select colors.

Click on the Zoom Tool. Look at the Options Bar. Are you zooming in or zooming out?
Try both. If you zoom too much, go to the Options Bar and click Fit Screen.

When you are zoomed in a few times, click on the hand in the Tools Palette. Click, hold and move the mouse.

Go to Window>Navigator. Look at the Navigator Palette. A red box shows what you are zoomed in on. Try moving the box around.

Click on the big mountain icon and the little mountain icon in the Navigator Palette. Take it to 300%. Take it to 100%.

Zoom in again in the Navigator Palette and move the red box around while you are zoomed in.

In the top Menu Bar, go to View>Fit on Screen.

Save your document.

 Next, get your scan.......
1. Join Edmodo       sezbt3
2. Download the scan file
3. Save your scan before you color it

 Next, color your document.........
Using the Paint Bucket Tool

Questions:


your grade





Standards:
Standard 1.0 Media, Techniques and Processes
Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes. 
Course Level Expectations (CLEs)
The student will
1.1 Demonstrate the use of knowledge and technical skills in at least one specific medium. 
1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and responsible use of art media and tools. 
1.3 Create visual art that communicates ideas through the use of media, techniques, and processes. 
1.4 Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the application of media, techniques, and processes
used to solve visual art problems.

Standard 2.0 Structures and Functions Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions. Course Level Expectations (CLEs) The student will
2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of art and the principles of design. 
2.2 Critique organizational components (structures) and expressive qualities (functions) of a work of art. 
2.3 Evaluate the function of a work of art as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes. 
2.4 Apply problem-solving skills to create solutions to a specific visual art task.

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

aug 26-30

check your grades

  • sketchbook and daily assignments are due on the day assigned
  • may be made up only if absent
  • missing = 50
Today:

 1. Finish collages for grade
2. Trace over part of collage 
    Use tracing paper and pens provided
    Close all shapes that you trace


to do:
1. Digital photo of you (someone else if you take it...no downloads from internet)
preferably black and white if you can convert it to b&w

2. Send it to me at            stevecampbell.digitalart@gmail.com
Be sure to reference your name_self portrait_your period in the subject line.
Needs to be high resolution. 

Due August 30


sketch for 10 minutes
sketch a collage (find this online) if you want to 

Sketchbook examples

 Finish collages
What I want you to know or do:
1. create a collage using magazine photos and other media (assemblage, film or digital presentation)
2. create a strong center of interest in the collage
3. have no "white space" in the design
4. illustrate a theme if you want to
5. show good pasteup skills

Questions:
1. Define emphasis.
2. How could you create emphasis?
3. What does emphasis have to do with "What I want you to know or do", above?

your grade

Cell phones and electronic devices are your responsibility. Protect them if you use them for classwork.


assignment

Collage
1. a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
2. an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or fragments in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition: The experimental play is a collage of sudden scene shifts, long monologues, musical interludes, and slapstick.
3. a film that presents a series of seemingly unrelated scenes or images or shifts from one scene or image to another suddenly and without transition.
Standards:
4. Students will relate and apply artistic knowledge, skills, techniques, processes and strategies for the creation of design, photographic, web, print, and various digital projects.

Standard 1.0 Media, Techniques and Processes
Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes. 
Course Level Expectations (CLEs)
The student will
1.1 Demonstrate the use of knowledge and technical skills in at least one specific medium. 
1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and responsible use of art media and tools. 
1.3 Create visual art that communicates ideas through the use of media, techniques, and processes. 
1.4 Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the application of media, techniques, and processes
used to solve visual art problems.

Standard 2.0 Structures and Functions Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions. Course Level Expectations (CLEs) The student will
2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of art and the principles of design. 
2.2 Critique organizational components (structures) and expressive qualities (functions) of a
work of art. 
2.3 Evaluate the function of a work of art as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes. 
2.4 Apply problem-solving skills to create solutions to a specific visual art task.

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