Art Careers

 

Thursday June 11th

One more day and the trimester is over. Please make sure to have a safe and healthy summer break. If you need a Graphic program to use over the summer please try Gravit- https://www.designer.io/en/

And just an FYI, Adobe just released a NEW app called Photoshop Camera yesterday. If you are interested it has some cool filters.

Selfie- Neon Filter.

Tuesday June 9th

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES-

As you might know I am still having some difficulties- both power outages and spinning wheels of death. It is most likely because I have too many large photos on my desk top.

So I give you this image of the mom raccoon who lives in one of my trees who has 4 babies. I am not a nature photographer but I enjoyed trying. It was taken with my DSLR (a Nikon D810 lens 70-300mm). My photos from my phone were awful!

Thursday June 4th

Graffiti Alley. Bhumsoo Kim, June 3, 2020. Ann Arbor, MI

Your last image for this class will be one in which you express something that you believe to be an injustice that you would like to see changed. You will need to take a picture or pictures or creat a drawing or drawings in which you feel it expresses this change. The images will need to include TEXT either in the picture or text you add with Photoshop or Photopea.com.

The intent of Project 17 is to give everyone one a voice through the lens of Social Justice. The guidelines to this Project is as follows:

No intentional exclusion (focus on the group you are promoting)

No harm

No violence

Show respectful for all 

Common themes for Social Justice are: 

unfair labor practices, racial discrimination, discrimination due to gender, orientation, ethnicity and age but are not limited to this.

Please contact me with any concerns or your process if you get stuck.

The artist's work for this project is vBarbara Kruger  http://www.barbarakruger.com/

Her work uses PostModern Principles- Recontextualization, Text & Image and Appropriation (the photos are not hers).

Recontextualization
Positioning familiar imagery in relation to pictures, symbols, or texts that it is not usually associate with.  A process that extracts text, signs or meaning from its original context in order to introduce it into another context.  Since the meaning of texts and signs depend on their context,  recontexturaliation implies a change in the communicative purpose to. 

Text and Image
Creating meaning through the combined interplay of text and imagery.  Artists working in this style often combine images and text that don't obviously go together.   This results in a piece of work that build meaning that is beyond the text and image alone.  Combined they create a stronger meaning. 

Appropriation
To appropriate is to borrow. Borrowing imagery from historical and mass media sources, such as found photos and advertising.  Through the act of borrowing, the artist manipulates, adds to.  Appropriation is the practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image from another context—art history, advertising, the media—and combining that appropriated image with new ones. Or, a well-known artwork by someone else may be represented as the appropriator’s own. Such borrowings can be regarded as the two-dimensional equivalent of the found object. But instead of, say, incorporating that “found” image into a new collage, the postmodern appropriator redraws, repaints, or rephotographs it. This provocative act of taking possession flouts the modernist reverence for originality.

Tuesday June 2nd

The past week or so has been rather active. We have seen the power of media and design featured  working to inform or to incite- depending on the perspective. That is what makes design magical and tragic. Please find your truth in all that you are exposed to.

The Skyline Counseling Team will be offering sessions for students to have an open space to talk about and/or get support for at least the rest of the week from 2-3pm on the recent events going on in our nation. The google meet is: meet.google.com/wxh-ikqo-dsv

Tuesday May 26th and Thursday May 28th

This week is the week to make sure your work is PUBLISHED on your Weebly.

Seniors- If you have finished your 10 Projects and you have 10 marked collected in PowerSchool you are still REQUIRED to fill out the Week 7 Check for Understand form.

Missing or comments in Powerschool that are preventing you from getting a collected mark- READ them. I will not give credit to work that falls below 60% and it is all in the details.

NO CREDIT- If you do not complete 10 Projects for this class you will receive NO CREDIT. If this is the path you chose- you will need to let your counselor know so the paperwork that you and your parents sign can be completed for the year.

ALL LATE WORK DUE FRIDAY JUNE 12th.

Thursday May 21st- Brush

Brush is present.

 Brush is minimal.

Good example but the font is too plain and missing a brush.

Remember a BRUSH needs to be used in your work for the Book and Back Cover:

For CREDIT you will need a completed Book Cover (8 x 10) executed in Illustrator that has the following:

1. The Environment- A foreground, middle ground and background. Must include a brush, gradients and patterns. In this case a pattern does not need to be in the swatches- it could be a repeated line or leaf.

2. Character(s)- A main character and supporting character(s) that exhibits these qualities: gradients, textures and no/or minimal black outlines. If your book is identifying things or objects like trees let me know as you will need a minimum of 8 inanimate objects (trees) for the book so your cover might be a Forest.

3. Typography- A title that uses a unique font and that has 2 of the following: drop shadow, gradient or pattern in it. (Type- create outlines.) And includes and author in a unique font.

4. Design: The Book Cover is a continuation with the Back Cover or has a seamless transition between the two.

5. Aesthetics: The Bool Cover Design has to have integrity. It needs to show all the skills above in a way that identifies your style.

Publish your Book Cover to your Weebly page titled Children's Book.

Project 12- Children's Book Back Cover

OPTIONAL: A sketch of your Back Cover. Email it to me. if you would like help.

A Back Cover are more simple then Book Covers.

For CREDIT you will need a completed Back Cover (8 x 10) executed in Illustrator that has the following:

1. The Environment- A foreground, middle ground and background. Must include a brush, gradients OR patterns. In this case a pattern does not need to be in the swatches- it could be a repeated line or leaf. If your book is identifying things or objects like trees let me know as you will need a minimum of 8 inanimate objects (trees) for the book so your Front and Back Cover might be a Forest.

2. Character(s)- A main character and supporting character(s) that exhibits these qualities: gradients, textures and no/or minimal black outlines. 

3. Typography- The text included on the back cover is the purpose of the book. Synopsis if you will. The moral of the story. The why we should read it in text. You must have varied size of text- ONCE UPON a time in a land far away.

4. Design: The Back Cover is a continuation with the Book Cover or has a seamless transition between the two. 

5. Aesthetics: The Bool Cover Design has to have integrity. It needs to show all the skills above in a way that identifies your style.

Publish your Back Cover to your Weebly page titled Children's Book.