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DMA105 students: watch chapters 7-12 on “Photoshop Essentials”. Get what you need to from chapters 7, 8, and 9, but the real meat of what we need will be in chapters 10 and 11.
I’ve added three new glyphs to sitelen sitelen for alasa, kipisi, and namako. Thanks to Joe Corneli for his initial glyph suggestions and feedback on my modifications!
Student Logo Projects
Digital Media Arts 105 Spring 2012 Student Projects: Logo Parody
ART125: homework from Pop Readings is due Monday, February 20th.
Minimalism
So here we have a bunch of artists, all basically making boxes and wanting the art world to accept them as Capital “A” Art. So how could it be that none of them get along? Today we look at the Minimalists, and interestingly, we see that the more similar the work of artists is, the [...]
Project 2: Digital Myth Making
For our second project, we will delve into Photoshop and learn how to tell stories by stitching images together. On a technical level, I am going to be looking for your ability to take parts of from different images and balance the color, the scale, and the textures so that when placed together they form [...]
Pop Art
The beginning of Pop Art as an artistic movement is often pegged to Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Home’s So Different, So Appealing? and that’s where we start our class today. We also look at our local fathers of Pop, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Both of these artists, [...]
You should have finished watching “Illustrator essential training” through chapter 14 “Transforming and Positioning Art”.
Abstract Expressionism
This week, we pick up with the end of World War II. We start by looking at two very different images of soldiers. One is by George Grosz, a bleak image of a crippled WW I veteran, reduced to a beggar. The other, by Thomas Hart Benton, shows heroic young Americans heading off to Europe [...]
Project 1: Logo Parody
For our First Project, we are going to learn how to use Illustrator to create vector graphics. Most of the time when we think of digital media, we think of images made up of pixels. This is a great way to reproduce and manipulate photographic imagery, but what about clean, smooth lines? This is where [...]
Introduction
Our course starts in New York in the 1940s, but 35,000 years of recorded art history exist before this point. Before we touch down with both feet running, what should we be aware of, what lessons from the past can we take with us? In this introductory class, we first look at a very few [...]
color theme
Dma105 students: Here are the colors you chose in class. Use them wisely! 00A9EB 160E59 19060C 1D1F56 349947 5B0D1A 66FF99 691BE2 72A74E 780404 7C6562 91CE74 BC5908 ED1C24
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New Site Launching
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Art 125: Welcome
Welcome to ART-125 Topics in Contemporary Art Our first class will be on Monday, January 23rd. This website will be continually updated throughout the course. Links will be provided to download all the course material; summaries of the classes will be provided, along with a list of the most important things to have come away [...]
Classes starting
Next week all classes start for the following classes: Ceramics, Topics in Contemporary Art, Intro to Digital Media Arts
Per request, I have added the drawing instructions back to t47 sitelen sitelen. You can see them here.
I’ve added a new lesson, Lesson 9 to T47. It covers writing proper names and commands with o.
T47 is back on line! It took more time than I hoped, but all the old content has been revamped, and a new gallery has been added. New lessons and more galleries coming next.
I’ve finished the homepage for project T47, and revamped the dictionary and lessons 1 through 5. I’ll finish 6 through 9 soon, add a quick gallery and hopefully have it all up on line in a couple days.
First up are the pages for project T47, the sitelen sitelen heiroglyphs. Working on the basic page layout now.
I have started to redesign the layout for the site. First thing is the homepage, where I will keep this bulletin of new additions.
Host transfer is complete, and email is back up and running. The web-pages for Art-125:Topics in Contemporary Art are back on-line.
Last academic year this site went off-line several times due to exceeded traffic. Before this happens again, I have transferred hosts, in order to increase the traffic available for this site. I am taking this time to update the website, and move to a more fluid design.