In class Fri Oct 30th

 

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Don't forget to upload your image to the "Visual Diary" before class.

 

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 The secret to becoming great at something!

1. Natural Aptitude
2. Love 
3. Focus
4. 10,000 hours of practice


Extension of Self video

 

 

Review Assignment #1

In class Wed Oct 28th

 

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Don't forget to upload your image to the "Visual Diary" before class.

 

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Do you want to hold a virtual Halloween Party?

 Mozilla Hubs info

Want to create a room?

 

Lets review the class Visual Diary album on Google Photos

The Vocabulary of Visual Art
- there are many aspects to consider when creating a piece of art or design. 


Composition is the arrangement or placement of visual elements in a piece of art or design.

image credit

# Review Experimental images from Assignment 1 (use art vocabulary)

How to use a Mac Computer

Login name = student

Login pass = artist

1) Desktop

2) The Dock

3) Top Menu

4) Making a new Folder 

5) Renaming files and folders on the desktop

6) Opening a program

7) Opening a file

8) Saving a file

9) Closing a program

Using Safari

1) Tabs and Windows

2) Searching

3) Downloading an image

- tools --- size --- large

- get images that are at lease 1000 pixels on the smallest side

Using Googles Apps

To use Googles Apps you need to be logged into your Hartwick College email.

- Calendar

- Drive/Docs

- Slides

- Photos 

 

Questions about Google Photos and handing in assignments

In class Mon Oct 26th

Intro to the elements of design & composition

- The visual world is described by a specific vocabulary that crosses all art disciplines

 

Composition is the arrangement of visual elements on the picture plane. In art we accomplish this when framing an image while shooting the photograph or when altering an image in the darkroom or image editing software. In general composition helps the photographer define the important elements in the image. There are many ideologies concerning composition two of the classic ideas are the "Rule of Thirds" and the Golden Ratio.

Orientation

Golden Ratio

Rule of Thirds

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The Adobe Capture App

- What does the app do?

Adobe Capture CC is a versatile app that lets you create a variety of digital media files. The files it generates can be used in software programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. The app can translate a photograph in six different ways, it’s most important feature being it’s ability to create a vector image from a photo. Vector images are scalable and are used often by graphic designers.

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Materials - turns a photograph into a 3D texture that can be applied to virtual 3D models. 

Type - Compares a photograph of type to Adobe’s type database to provide you with the closest vector font available to the font in the image.

Shapes - Turns a photograph into vector shapes. 

Colors - Looks for the 5 most prominent colors in a photographs to create a color bar (schema) for that image.

Patterns - Turns a photograph into a complex pattern

Brushes - Turns a photograph into a brush that can be used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

- Download the app

Assignment 1

ART116 Fall 2020

Experiment with Imagery

Due wed Oct 28th before class

In class

Step 1: download the Adobe Capture App & Google Photos App

Step 2: find an image on your phone. Using the app alter your photo as a; material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush.

Step 3: go out and take a photo in the app and alter the photo as a; material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush.

 

Outside of class

Take 5 images using the Capture App make a material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush of each.

Use 5 images from your phone and make a material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush each.

- upload your favorite 5 experimental images to the class 'Art116 Assignments' Google Photos album by the beginning class on Wed Oct 28th

 

In class Fri Oct 23rd

Reminder: Today's class will be on Zoom. Link shared in your email.

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Why art? 

 

The perception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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* "Art" in college should really be called "Visual Studies". Understanding how visuals work is a powerful and important skill in the 21st century. 

 

 

Traditionally we believe humans understand the world through 5 senses; Smell, Taste, Touch, Sight and Sound. (There are some researchers claim we have 9 or 11) 

 

Through the centuries we have derived various forms of communication based on these senses. Where smell, taste and touch certainly have their place, our main forms of communication utilize sight and sound. 

 

Sound

vocal communication 

 

    •    Awareness of the presence and location of sound.
    •    Discrimination of the sound from others comparing differences in pitch, rate, intensity, and duration.
    •    Identification, including attributing a meaning and monitoring the sound.
    •    Ongoing comprehension including remembering and re-using the sound.

 

 

Visual

image based communication (includes text)

    •    Visual discrimination: the ability to discriminate dominant features of objects.
    •    Visual memory: the ability to recognize something when it reappears.
    •    Visual spatial relationships: the ability to perceive the position of objects.
    •    Form constancy: the ability to categorize similar objects with different features.
    •    Sequential memory: the ability to recognize a sequence of objects when they reappear.
    •    Visual figure ground: the ability to identify an object from surrounding objects.
    •    Visual closure: the ability to identify a whole figure when only parts are shown.

 

 

*What I find interesting is that humanity managed to develop language. Language if fully developed is a form of communication that integrates a vocal component and and image component seamlessly. Beyond that, our ability to understand what we are thinking (to organize out thoughts) is based on utilizing this system. And, it is different for people living in different locations through out the world.

 

Lets make a list of where we see visual communication used in today's society.

 

 

Visuals in business: Keller Visual Strategies

Art Jobs & Art Tracks

So what is art? 

- art is produced in a variety of 'mediums' both 2 dimensional(2D) and 3 dimensional(3D)

Dave McKean Drawing/Illustration

Andy Warhol Printmaking

Pablo Picaso Painting

Pendleton Ward Animation

Rodin Sculpture

Banksey Street Art

Greek Vase Ceramics

Jerry Uelsmann Photography

Glass

Graphic Design

Google Photos

 

 

The Google Photos app helps you organize and store your photos in the cloud that you can access on your phone or computer. It can also be used to organize images in albums that can be shared with other people. You will be using the Google Photos App to upload most of your assignments and projects for this class through out the semester. 

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1. Download and Install Google Photos App

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2. Open App and sign in with your Hartwick gmail account information 

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3. Use the link provided to connect to the class “Art116 Visual Diary” album in Google Photos 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tGwAX6XUYjcFbDAc6

Current assignment:
Take 40 photographs exploring space and the camera on your cellphone. The goal is to take 40 terrible photographs. You need to break all the rules. Try taking a picture while running or getting so close the image is blurry. Take images from a high angle, get low, get close, get far, hold your camera at an angle instead of perfectly horizontally.

Create an album in Google Photos labeled with your name + P1. ex Joe VS P1. Upload your favorite 10 images and share it with the professor. Due Mon Oct 26th.

 

Semester Long Assignment: Visual Diary

[assigned] Friday Oct 23rd

[due] One image uploaded 1 hour before class starts (Mon, Wed, Fri)

For this assignment you are required to take a photograph that represents the "moment" you are experiencing before each class. How you interpret this is up to you. 

Share this image up on Google Photos in the "Art116 Visual Diary" album.

Welcome Day 1 Wed Oct 21st

Welcome to Art116 Time and Virtual Space.

 

* Our first class will meet in the lobby of Anderson Center at 10:10am on Wed Oct 21st. Please read the information below before class starts on Wednesday!

 

 

 In this course you will learn how "time" and "virtual space" are used in the creation, display and organization of art and design. We will do this through the exploration of Image Manipulation, Vector Drawing/Rendering, and 3D design. We will utilize software like Adobe Photoshop CC,  apps like Adobe Capture, & webware like Tinkercad and Google Apps (Google Photos, Google Calendar & Google Docs). We will discus the use of new technologies like digital c-n-c routers and 3D printers. We will utilize the "design thinking" methodology in our creative process and we will learn and utilize the vocabulary of art and design.

 


How the class works

This course is a hybrid class. It can be taken in person or remotely. The class is taught "synchronously", which means all students are required to be present either in Anderson or on Zoom during class time Mon, Wed & Fri 10:10am - 12:05pm. 
 

The course information for this class will be presented throughout the semester using this blog. Blog post contain a list of the work for that day, written information, examples, assignment information, and 'how to' / 'lecture' videos. Assignments will be submitted utilizing Google Photos. Both students and the professor will use the platform to 'like' and comment on students work to give feedback in and outside of class.

Time in class will be used for presentation, critiques and studio time. Studio time provides an opportunity for students to work on projects and assignments with help of the professor. Please note that to be successful in this class you will need to do studio work outside of class time as well.

Online course meetings will be on Zoom video and will be shared with you through Google Calendar and email updates.




This Weeks Schedule


Wed Oct 21st 

- Our first class will meet in the lobby of Anderson Center at 10:10am. 

- download the following apps before class.

Adobe Capture CC - you will need to create a username and password for Adobe. Make sure you write down this information as you will need it to log in to Photoshop. 

Google Photos Apps - use you college gmail name and password to log in

- Bring your cellphone to class

 

Fri Oct 23rd

- class will meet online using Zoom (link will be emailed to you)

HAppy Summer

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