Week 1
"What is Art" - Phil Hansen
During this video I learned that painting isn't always just "Painting the Chair" but through emotions it was painted. Creating art doesn't just come from the materials you use, but art comes from your emotions and feelings.
During this video I learned that painting isn't always just "Painting the Chair" but through emotions it was painted. Creating art doesn't just come from the materials you use, but art comes from your emotions and feelings.
Week 2
I learned to resize photos and use them for further projects. We worked on taking our new cropped photo and adding guide lines to a white slide and then taking our picture and adding it to the middle and also adding 3 lines of words about our topic and picture.
Week 3
During this week I finished My magazine project and uploaded it to my website. The magazine project was a fun project because we got to chose our own photo and magazine to base ours off of.
Week 4
We started learning how to use illustrator and worked on removing removing a background.This week we worked on removing a background. This is a helpful tool because if there is 1 part of an picture you want and the background is to busy you can just take that element out and only use that
Week 5
We worked on basic illustrator exercises and started our snowman assignments.The snowman assignment was fun cause I chose to base mine off of a picture I found on the internet and I made my eyes extra detailed to make my snowman cute.
Week 6
We worked on shapes and started our angry bird assignments.The angry bird assignment was a challenging assignment. We had to almost replicate the original red angry bird.
Week 7
This week I stared working on the julian Opie Assignment. This assignment was fun because we got to chose a well known person to work on. But we had to use Julian Opie's art technique.
Week 8
This week we worked on any past assignments and working more on our websites and also had the opportunity to do some extra credit designs too.
Week 9
This week we worked on our haunted house poster. We got to use creepy fonts and a a hunted house but we also had to tell people what it would be like.
Week 10
This week we worked on our animated GIF's. This was a complicated process but with the help of two videos and a few friends I finally found out how to create a GIF.
Week 11
This week we started working with InDesign. We worked on how to link text and how to make text go around a picture. These skills will help with our magazine project.
Week 12
This week we learned a few tips to help us do our 10 page magazine assignmnet. Some of these tips were how to make a master page element and also how to find collums. This assignment consists of 1 cover, 2 adds, and 2 articles. This was a fun project because we got to chose our own topic and creat eour own article topics.
Week 13
~THANKSGIVING BREAK~
Week 14
This week we continued working on our 10 page magazines and also had another optional side assignment. The optional assignment was to create your own cereal box design. And a whole new cereal.
Week 15
This week we conintued our magazine project and had a few assignments to fill in our extra time. One assignment was to design an old bill bored add. Another was to make a cereal box design.
Week 16
This week we had another project to make a poster for the seahawks going against another team of your choice.
Week 17
~Winter Break~
Week 18
~Winter Break~
Week 19
This week we worked on the logo assignment. For this assignment we had to design 4 or more logos of our own. And put them on a picture of a phone. During this assignmen I had to make sure that everything was aligned so that the phone layout looked as if the apps were on a real phone. As I came to finish to this project I felt very accomlished because there was a lot of elements that were needed to complete this project.
Week 20
This week we took time to finish up some of our old unfinished projects then we had the oppertunity to do some optional assignments. And we also needed to finish up our websires and portfoilios too.