Collage

Favorite project all year?

Had to be the fish assignment for me. Reason I say this is because it was one of the first projects that introduced me to illustrator, and what I could do.

Caricature

Definition- Exaggeration by means of often-ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics.

You will notice that the head is the most exaggerated, or is the first thing that you notice. What comes next are the many facial features like the lips, eyes, ears, nose, etc. Depending on the person's personality.

People who inspire me

Well....as strange as this may seem, the only being that has ever inspired me was the fictional character Optimus Prime. Call me crazy, but even though he's a fictional character, he has all the qualities of a good leader. He knows just how to get the job done. I've always fought arguments with logic and patience, and for some strange reason, I always fall back to Optimus Prime. I can't really explain it either.

Homework 5/1/12

I notice that there is a lighter contrast that the newer comics use than the older ones. They rely more on white.

They also use a different kind of layering as you can tell.

From my point of view, the older comics look like they have more detail in the facial expressions than the ones of today.

Pop Art Warm-Up

Pop art first emerged in the 1950s and 60s

.Bright and vivid colors
.Modern
.Unity
.Repetition/uniformity

Pop art focused on a subject and consisted on commercial advertising and comic books.

Includes modern everyday things.

Was very popular among celebrities and major pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol.

Surrealism ideas

Something you wouldn't see out in the open huh?

Well, my crazy idea would be a giant bird with the body of a plane being driven by a colorful pony underwater with spongebob's pineapple in the background along with a bunch of other random objects just to fill the screen up.

Surrealist artists

Ubu Imperator

By Max Ernst

Portrait prémonitoire de Guillaume Apollinaire

By Giorgio De Chirico

Querelle des universaux

by René Magritte

Cheval, Dormeuse invisibles

by Salvador Dalí

Impressionism

Warm-up 4/17/12

The term ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM was first used to define the style of?


B-Kandinsky

Homework for 4/11/12

Blue Period-(1901-1904)

Rose Period-(1904-1906)

African Influenced-(1907-1909)

Cubism-(1909-1912)

Clacssicism and Surrealism(1920’s)

What is the main Atmospheric difference between impressionism and post impressionism?

Mostly the colors really. In the Impressionism Era, the colors were darker with more blues and greens, while Post Impressionism had a lot of brighter colors like reds and oranges and bright greens/blues.

Hard Werken?

The cultural tabloid that made a considerable national impact, which later became a design studio operated under a man by the same name,Hard Werken, with each designer supervising their own projects.

Abstract and Abstraction

Abstract- of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, oractual instances: an abstract idea. 2.  a process by which higher concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (“real” or “concrete”) concepts, first principles, or other methods. 
Abstraction- the product of this process – a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts, and connects any related concepts as a group, field, or category.

Metaphoric

Impressionists

Claude Monet-On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt

Édouard Manet-The Absinthe Drinker. 1858-1859.

Camille Pissarro “Two Women Chatting By The Sea,” St. Thomas, (1856)

Classwork for 3/13/12

Metaphor

Metaphor-Comparing 2 items or things without using the words "like" or "as".

Warm-up 3/13/12

It has been noted that certain characteristics of Aesthetic sensitivity are essential for the process of art appreciation. These are curiosity,open mindedness and an ability to concentrate or focus attention. Elaborate on why they are important.


They are important because it lets you really appreciate all the aspects of art with no biased opinions, which is open mindedness. while having curiosity allows you to explore all of the elements and find new things to take interest in.

Invention

Lighthouse

Homework 3/5/12

Now from what I know,when you appreciate art,you are appreciating the work of how someone interprets what the picture is. They may add their own specific touch to make the art stand out. Now,when you appreciate natural beauty,you are appreciating something in its natural form,no changes made or anything.

Warm-up 3/5/12

Extrinsic value can be best described as an object that makes you happy or provides pleasure,while an intrinsic value is a feeling of happiness or pleasure that isn't an object.

Black Citrus

Bird merge

Cracked egg

Warm-up 2/28/12

Caravaggio’s method of creating dramatic contrasts of dark and light, which influenced artists throughout Europe during the Baroque period, is called?

Answer: D) tenebrism

Fluffy Layers

Fluffy layers

Blending tools in Photoshop

Smudge

Sharpen

Blur

Empire mess

7 photoshop tools

.Move tool
.Lasso tool
.Marquee tool
.Quick selection tool
.Spot healing brush tool
.Brush tool
.Eraser tool

Photoshop!!!

Raster- data structure representing a grid of pixels or points of color. (aka bitmap)

File saving formats:

JPEG- lossy compressions (loss in image quality). File format for the web.
PSD- (Photoshop Document) Default photoshop extension. Allows you to reopen and edit previous changes.

Still Life

Venn Diagram

Chiaroscuro

Definition-The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art.

The supper

By Caravaggio

                                                                             

Famous Still Life Artists

Jan Brueghel- Bouquet of Flowers

Georges Braque- Le Jour

Henri Matisso- Interior with Eggplants

Warm-up 1/15/12

Still Life- a painting or drawing of inanimate objects, such as fruit, flowers, etc.


Inanimate Object- An object that is not animate. doesn't breathe, change, or live.

Quiz for 1/13/12

Machines invented during the Industrial Revolution

.Steam Locomotives
.Eli Whitney's cotton gin
.The Electric Telegraph