Post Your Chess Piece

To complete our drawing assignment, you need to photograph, scan and post your chess piece drawing on your blog. Please make sure you have used the copy stand AND taken a photo using overcast or shade lighting outside (this will ensure a very soft flat light that will reduce shiny reflections). Also scan your art work as well.

Once you have made enhancements to the three images in Photoshop, make sure you SAVE them with the appropriate title and your name, as .jpgs. You should have three images, Name_scan.jpg, Name_copystand.jpg, and Name_outside.jpg. When you post the three, make sure they are labelled accurately.

Write about the three techniques you have learned about to copy your work and discuss the pros and cons of each as they relate to YOUR artwork in particular. For example, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Does one cause a bright spot on your paper? Does one not allow you to copy the entire image? etc.

Write another paragraph about how you used line and value in your drawing. Describe how you created movement, if you created rhythm or pattern, how you contrasted light and dark values, and what you were trying to achieve with your background. Also, discuss the techniques you used to help accentuate the chess piece as the focal point. This will be marked as an artist statement for your drawing assignment. Have fun!

Chess Piece Drawing Inspiration - Year One Visual Art

Here are a few images to help inspire you.

The following images are by artist MC Escher. Please google his images for more fun!

Additionally, try googling pattern and rhythm in art for even more artistic inspiration such as these:

Year One Tech Blog Post #3

This week's is an easy one: Take a photo (or sketch) something that you see in your surroundings (indoor or outdoor) that is a powerful example of an element of design in action. What element of design is your photo or sketch capturing and what impact does this element have on your experience of the image?

Year Three Tech

Thursday will be your last day to work on your movie trailer mash-up. A reminder that your final project will need to be exported from imovie to be viewed on your blog.

Also, I will need to see your imovie project to see your fantastic editing work. Please drop this into the drop folder with your name in the file name. Name_movietrailer.

Please post both the original trailer for the movie AND your finished altered movie trailer with your artist statement.

Your artist statement MUST include the following:

Please write an in depth description beginning with your decision about which movie trailer to use. Describe how the mood change was achieved using both sound and visuals. Compare the original trailer to your altered trailer and discuss the impact you were aiming for by making the choices you did. Describe your choice of clips to use based on content, as well as the order in which you chose to arrange them. Also, comment on the music you chose and why the piece contributes to the shift in mood from the original trailer. You should be including any sound fx and voiceover as well, and commenting on the pairing of the music, fx and voiceover with certain scenes.
Please remember to write clearly and professionally. Edit first!!

I will be evaluating your written statement based on the following:

Knowledge/Understanding: evidence of knowledge and understanding of the program used and how the choices you made impact the viewer's emotional response.

Thinking/Inquiry: evidence of creative thinking in the pairing of sound and image, order of clips and choice of music, fx and voiceover

Communication: clear, well-written, professional. Evidence of care and editing before publishing the post.

Year 1 Tech Blog Post #2

For this week's blog post you will need to find three example of logos--each one must be of a different type: either typographic, abstract, pictographic, or combinations of these.

1) Begin by describing the logo using terms you have learned from your lessons on the Elements and Principles of design.

2) Now that you have described the logo, explain what you think the designer was trying to express with the choices s/he made.

3) Based on your analysis, who do you think is the target audience of the logo design?

Animated gif to web page - Year 4 Tech

1024x768 is the minimum standard screen size that we design for on the web. Design your web page layout in Photoshop - recommended dimension of 900x600 pixels to fit ever so neatly in a browser window. Then you can use Dreamweaver or hand coding (if you dare) to create your "index.html" file.

Put your youtube links here!

Copy and paste the URL for the video footage you want to use into a comment at the bottom of this post.