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As necessary, remember to use your color book as a resource for this part of the assignment.
From the web site below choose a painting and describe its mood and color scheme for your own painting.
Return to the web site with all of the paintings, along with the color web site.

Follow the steps below for your color planning:
1. Choose a painting.
2. Create a new word document, and insert the image of the painting you have chosen.
3. Below the picture, write the name of the painting, the name of the artist, and the date of the painting.
4. Next describe the color scheme by doing the following:
a. List ALL the colors you see in the painting, be specific by describing colors beyond the secondary.
b. Which are the dominant colors?
c. What kind of color scheme is it? (Monochromatic, etc.)
d. Finally, describe the mood of the painting and explain how the colors help to create this mood. This is the mood that you will be striving to recreate in your own painting.

Once you have finished this document, print it up. You are ready to begin your painting! Hold on to the printout – it is part of the assignment!

Part 1: Planning design:

1. 2. Using newsprint, choose one letter from the alphabet; create at least 2 different designs, using the same letter.

3. Do not use straight edges, use free-form, organic lines.
4. Your letter should be a half of an inch thick – you will be cutting it out.

5. Decide on a letter design and copy or trace onto tag board.

6. the letter out of tag board.

7. Trace the letter multiple times onto white 9” x 12” tag board.

8. Overlap the letter and go off the edges. Be careful not to do too much or too little overlapping.

9. DRAW VERY LIGHTLY; THIS IS YOUR FINAL BEFORE PAINTING. You will need to erase some lines.

10. Look at your composition. Erase any lines that seem too confusing or unnecessary.

11. Share with your table group; give and receive feedback on your final composition/design.

Final Project – Photo 1

Film due on Monday, 12/10 (p3) and Tuesday, 12/11 (p4 &p5)
Part 1 – Planning
1. Brainstorm ideas for your photographs by writing 5 categories that interest you.
2. Under each of those categories, write a list (save to your photo folder on your computer) of of items that corresponds to each of those categories.

Part 2 – Photograph
1. Photograph a situation, event or object(s) that reveal something about you.
2. The above activity is intended to get you thinking about WHAT you will photograph.
3. The photographs may or may not have people in it, but the photographs MUST reveal something about you.
4. You must create a series of at least 3 photographs. A series is a group of related images.

Please be sure to incorporate all of your knowledge regarding:
• Depth of field, composition, and elements of design, especially light and perspective.
• Let these be the best photographs that you have ever produced in your entire life!!

Consider this: 50 years from now people should be able to figure out a characteristic, interest, or trait about you from viewing these images. In short, you are communicating a “slice of your life” through these photographs.

Due Date: Thursday, 12/6

In order to further your understanding of color schemes and composition please complete the following:

1. Make either a 1.5” square or a 1” x 1.5”rectangular viewfinder (I will show you how). Choose either a square or rectangle for the activity.
2. Using your viewfinder, as you might use a camera, look for an interesting shot. Look through magazines and find interesting compositions by sliding the “frame” over the page.
3. When you find one you like, lightly trace the frame, and cut it out.
4. Arrange them on your sketchbook page, categorizing them by color scheme.
5. Using at least 3 columns and 5 rows, glue (using a glue stick and gluing all the way to the edges) the squares/rectangles down to your page.
6. There should be equal amounts of white space between and around each composition.
7. Pay close attention to the cutting and the gluing. Craftsmanship Counts!!!

Homework Due Friday, November 30

In your sketchbook, please draw a circle that almost touches the edges of your page:
Then divide the circle into 12 sections and label them:
Red
Red-Orange
Orange
Yellow-Orange
Yellow
Yellow-Green
Green
Green-Blue
Blue
Blue-Violet
Violet
Violet-Red

Look through a variety of magazines to find several examples of those colors. Tear out the pages. Now tear small pieces of each of the colors, and glue them onto the page of your notebook to create a color wheel collage.
Reminders:
• Use small pieces of colored paper.
• Make sure pieces within each labeled color are similar.
• Make sure that each piece of the pie is a different color.
• High quality craftsmanship counts.
• Label the colors NEATLY!
• Use the whole page.

Sketchbook Assignment: Due Thursday, November 15

Please go to this website:

Spend some time exploring the site, paying particular attention to the first two buttons:
The Power of Color
The Physiology and Theory of Color

Then go to this website:

There you will find an assortment of artworks, from a variety of artists. Choose four of those pictures, download and insert them into a Word document, USE ONE PAGE. Next to each picture, please write the following:
o The name of the picture, the artist, and the date
o Explain what mood the picture evokes for you, and explain why. Use at least four complete sentences in your explanation, please.

PLEASE PRINT THIS DOCUMENT BEFORE CLASS ON THURSDAY.

Essential Questions:
In what ways is photography a unique/powerful means of communication?
How does learning about the history of photography help us to better understand the world in which we live?

Revisit the following link to help you get started:

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

Communication in Photography: Major Themes
Social/Political Persuasion
Historical/Monumental Events
Social Change
Aesthetics
Exceptional Places
Human Conditions: tragedies, injustices, war and peace
A moment(s) in time
Famous/Infamous Personalities
Symbol(s) of an era

In pairs, research one of the following time periods. This will be assigned by the teacher.
1850 – 1900
1900 – 1930
1930 – 1945
1945 – 1960
1960 – 1970
1970 – 1980
1980 – 1990
1990 – present
Find powerful photographs(at least 3 per theme) that represent at least FOUR of the above major themes or ideas for your time period.

Identify who took the photograph, describe the circumstance/setting and justify the selection:
Include the photographer, date, title;
A well-developed paragraph; be clear, thoughtful, thorough;
Use a topic sentence;
Include discussion of supporting evidence.

Photograph INCREDIBLE & AMAZING photographs. Post your favorite image to your blog and explain why your posted it and explain the strategies/elements of design/composition that we have discussed and that you have learned in class.

This should be done with a digital camera. If you do not have access to a digital camera, come and see me AHEAD OF TIME, to make arrangements to do this.

Due Friday 11/16, at the beginning of class.

From now until the end of the semester, approximately every other week you will be posting an INCREDIBLY AMAZING photograph to your blog and explaining, using art vocabulary, why you chose to post your image.

This should be done with a digital camera. If you do not have access to a digital camera, come and see me AHEAD OF TIME, to make arrangements to do this.

Your first photo of the week is due on Thursday, November 8th. Shoot in black & white if possible, otherwise we will change to color afterward.

Sketchbook assignment due November 2
A careful drawing, in which you:
• Find the correct proportions of objects
• Find the relationship between objects
• Find the objects’ relative positions in space
• Use a variety of marks to define the forms

You will use three (3) objects:
• A regular sized Styrofoam coffee cup or similar standard cup
• A lemon, lime, egg, apple, or pear
• An easily recognizable standard size milk or juice container (quart or half gallon)

You should:
• Draw as close to life size as your page will allow.
• Orient your page vertically
• Stand the bottle and cup up. Do NOT lay them on their sides.
• Position the three objects so that they OVERLAP each other
• As you begin your drawing, mark location points to help you figure out proportions and placement of objects on the page.
• Use line variation (light/dark, thin/thick) to indicate the light source, the structure, and detail.
• Define the shapes of your objects by shading (NOT SMUDGING), using marks to achieve a wide range of values in your drawing. Look back in your sketchbook for inspiration from the work of van Gogh or other artists. See what strategies they used to create values.

EXTRA CHALLENGE:
Include a second cup lying on its side, with the open end towards you.