Day 6

 

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

 

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Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body

Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.

“the emergent self-organizing process, both embodied and relational, that regulates energy and information flow within and among us.”

 

 

Example of Exponential Change

 

 

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Finding Images on Google to use in Photoshop

* use the "Tools" select "Size" and choose "Large"

* only use images that are at least 1000 pixels on the smallest side

- After you choose an image "control" click on the image and choose "open image in a new tab"

- navigate to the new tab and drag and drop the image onto the desktop (or "control" click and choose "download image", save it to the desktop)

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Bringing images into Photoshop

 * Drag and Drop the JPEG or PSD file onto the photoshop icon in the 'Dock'

- once open in Photoshop use "command"+"a" to select the entire image.
- use "command"+"c" to copy the image - navigate to the template you want to put the image onto
- use "command"+"v" to paste the image

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 Photoshop - Day 1

Creating & Manipulating Images in Photoshop

Menu
File -- New / Open / Save / Save As
Image -- Image Size / Canvas Size / Canvas Rotation

Layers
- new layers
- layer visibility
- blend modes
- opacity
- changing layer position

How to Finish Project 2 for Friday

- Open an image of your drawing in Photoshop

- crop your image

- adjustments --> threshold  

- erase excess image info

- flatten the image

- save as a jpeg

- convert into an SVG

- show professor

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Project 3

Artist Trading Cards

description:

For this project you will be creating 'Artist Trading Cards' also known as ATCs. The creation of ATCs by artist comes from a long history of artists trading small samples of their work with other artist or were sold to make a little extra cash. They were very popular with Impressionistic era artists. The cards are generally 2.5" x 3.5" big and are either unique or are created in small editions.

example links:

ATC Wike

ATC collection

 

whats due:

- 8 different Artist Trading Cards, 2.5" x 3.5" in size at 180dpi.

- Each card shows examples of your ability to manipulate images using Photoshop

- Each card should have a total of at least 5 layers. 3 layers of persons, places, and/or things, 1 texture layer and 1 layer of color.

- All your cards files need to be uploaded as flattened 'jpegs' to the Google class assignment album.

 

What should you do?

This is an open project. Be creative, express yourself. Find your style, create something retro-cool, urban chic, surreal abstraction, whatever, just create 8 images you are proud of.

 

First due date: Beginning of class

Your 8 images uploaded to the class Google Albums. Label your card files with your first and last name and a number.

Example - joevonstengel-1.jpg, joevonstengel-2.jpg. Save as JPEG file format.

 

Second due date: day of the final

Layout your artist trading cards as 8 ups. Print your two best cards 16 times each. Cut them out and sign them. Have them ready for the final

Day 5

-----------------before class---------------

 

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

-----------------Topic of the Day--------------

 When the Virtual meets the Physical: Bio Bots

 “These are novel living machines,” Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research, said in a statement. “They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It’s a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.”

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What is Virtual Space?

 

 

The Fabrication Lab (FabLab )

3D Printing

Glowforge Laser cutter/engraver

Digital C-n-C router

[4 min 36 sec]

[13 min 35 sec]

 

 

What are Vector Graphics?

Vector graphics are a purely virtual form of drawing. It is mathematically based.

There are many file types that support vector graphics. 

 

The most common file type is the SVG (scalable vector graphic).  All the digitally based production technology in the FabLab, like the Laser Cutter, C-N-C router, and 3D printers utilize the SVG file type.

Hand Drawn

 

Vector Graphic

 

Image translated into a vector and laser etched into cherry plywood

 

 

 

Project 2

[Assigned - Wed Oct 26th ]

[Due - Mon Oct 31st]

Laser Cut Vector Design

description:
For this project you will be creating a BxW drawing that will be converted into a vector graphic and etched into wood or plastic

1. Using a sharpie or other marker create a pattern, drawing or abstraction, in a 5" x 5" square on a piece of white paper.

 

2. Repeat the process six times

 

3. Take a photo of each drawing. 

4. Upload the file to the class "Art116 Vector Images" Google Photos Album

5. Participate in the group critique

 

6. Convert the image chosen in the critique into a vector graphic using this link

 

Things to consider:

The image needs to be two colors only, black and white. The laser will etch the black lines into the material. The white is the material itself. Lasers burn the material. In the case of wood it leaves it looking dark and burnt. Plastic looks frosted.

What’s Due:

Six image files up in the class 'Art116 Vector Album FA22-2' in Google Photos 

 

 

 

Work on Projects

Day 4

-----------------before class---------------

 

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

-----------------Topic of the Day--------------

 

Will virtual and augmented reality move us into the knowledge age? by Zenka

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Upload your 5 favorite creations in Adobe Capture to the Google Photos album "Art116 Assignments FA22-2"

 

Review Project 1!

 

 

Abstract Art

Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. from the Tate

 

 

Wassily Kandinsky, untitled (study for Composition VII, Première abstraction), watercolor, 1913

 

 

 

Geometric

Abstract Art

The pictorial language of geometric abstraction, based on the use of simple geometric forms placed in nonillusionistic space and combined  into nonobjective compositions, evolved as the logical conclusion of the Cubist destruction and reformulation of the established conventions of form and space. Initiated by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907–8, from The Met

                   Piet_Mondriaan,_1939-1942_-_Composition_10

Project 2

[Assigned - Wed Oct 26th]

[Due - Mon Oct 31st]

Laser Cut Vector Design

description:
For this project you will be creating a BxW drawing that will be converted into a vector graphic and etched into wood or plastic

1. Using a sharpie or other marker create a pattern, drawing or abstraction, in a 5" x 5" square on a piece of white paper.

 

2. Repeat the process six times

 

3. Take a photo of each drawing. 

4. Upload the file to the class "Art116 Vector Images" Google Photos Album

5. Participate in the group critique

 

6. Convert the image chosen in the critique into a vector graphic using this link

 

Things to consider:

The image needs to be two colors only, black and white. The laser will etch the black lines into the material. The white is the material itself. Lasers burn the material. In the case of wood it leaves it looking dark and burnt. Plastic looks frosted.

What’s Due:

Six image files up in the class 'Art116 Vector Album FA22-2' in Google Photos 

 

 

 

Work on Projects

DAy 3

 

-----------------before class---------------

 

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

 

-----------------in class with professor---------------

 

Lets review more Bad Photos

 

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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

 

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Using Googles Apps

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

- Calendar

- Drive/Docs

- Photos 

 

Questions about Google Photos and handing in assignments?

 

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# Review Experimental images from  Project 1 on Wednesday (we will use art vocabulary)

Day 2

'Terrible Photos' assignment due today before class starts up in the class Google Photos "Art116 Bad Photos Fa2" shared album!

 

 

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

        image credit

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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

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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

Project 1

Experiment with Imagery

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; shape, colors, pattern and brush.

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

 

Outside of class

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

- upload your favorite 5 experimental images to the class 'Art116 Assignments FA22-2' Google Photos album by the beginning class on Wed Oct 26th

 

DAy 1

Why art? 

 

The perception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reality

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* "Art" in college should really be called "Visual Studies". Visual studies (art) considers the elements and visual language used to communicate. Understanding how to communicate using images is a powerful and important skill in the 21st century. 

 

 

How do we experience "art"?

 

 
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. 

Lets consider Site 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.

 

There is a difference between "hearing" and "listening". What is it?

 

 

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.

 

 

 

There is a difference between "looking" and "seeing"

 

 

 

*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 our thoughts) is based on utilizing this system. It is also interesting that the same system has been designed differently for people living in various locations through out the world.

 

 

 

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. At the bottom of the screen you will see "Sharing". This is where you can find the albums for the class. Put your images for the bad photographs assignment use the “Art116 Bad Photos” album.

Assignment due Friday:
Take 25 photographs exploring Hartwick with the camera on your cellphone. The goal is to take 25 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.

Upload your favorite 25 images to the “Art116 Bad Photos Fa-2” album

 

 

Semester Long Project: Visual Diary

[assigned] Wed Oct 19th

[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 F22-2" album.