Right & Left Brain

http://painting.about.com/library/blpaint/blrightbraintable.htm

For your final presentation to the class you may use Power Point or InDesign to present the projects you have created over the semester. I would also like a copy of your final presentation in a CD that I will keep. You should also print out all of your projects and place them into a one inch black blinder that you will pass around to the class but will keep for your records.

Of all of the quotes you have made over the semester, you only need to present six of the best to include in your final. You must include the following assignments:

The three different grids
The line project
Shapes project
Self Portrait
Illustrator Collage
Photoshop Collage
InDesign News Letter
Color Matters Project

If you have created another project that you are pleased with but that is not on the list do include it.

The Final starts at 7:15 and because we do not have much time please be on time and limit your presentation to no more than five minutes.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me.
Barbara

Create a Flip Book

Come up with a concept for your flip book where you move your audience from one frame to another and evolve your idea visually.

You may use any program you choose or even a combination of software to make your project. If you use InDesign you may use the Step and Repeat feature I showed you in class to lay out your booklet.

There are many great website that show your how to create a flip-book with instructions and what explain what materials you will need. It should be at least fifty pages or enough to showcase your concept.

I will talk more about the binding on Monday in class.
This project will be due at the time of our Final.

Color Matters Indesign Project

For this assignment you will be creating in InDesign, you will be creating a tweleve page booklet about color. In this document I want its content to be all about color using some of the images you made in Illustrator and others you will design in InDesign. Please go to the website http://www.colormatters.com for the main content for your document. I will be giving you al of the requirements of the various features in InDesign I want you to use. To start with create the look and feel of your booklet using Master Pages and set up your numbering pages. I will go over the requirements in class as well.

Tints, Tones and Shades: These terms are often used inappropriately but they describe fairly simple color concepts. The important thing to remember is how the color varies from its original hue. If white is added to a color, the lighter version is called a "tint". If the color is made darker by adding black, the result is called a "shade". And if gray is added, each gradation gives you a different "tone."

 Tints (adding white to a pure hue)

 Shades (adding black to a pure hue)

 Tones (adding gray to a pure hue) 

Complementary Colors: When two or more colors "go together," they are said to be "complementary." This is completely subjective and open to interpretation and differences in opinion.  

Primary Colors: This definition really depends on what type of medium of color we are using. The colors that are seen when sunlight is split by a prism are sometimes called the spectral colors. These are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These ROYGBIV colors are often reduced to three "red, green, and blue-violet" which are the primary colors for the additive color system (light). The primary colors for the subtractive color system (paint/pigment) are "cyan, magenta and yellow." Notice that "red, yellow and blue" should never be used as the combination for color primaries!

RGB, CMYK: Make a color wheel for each of the two kinds of color wheels. Also explain what the differences are.

You may also want to include a glossary of color terms in one or two of your pages.

Indesign Tools and Features to use in your design:

• At least two different type wraps.
• Two or three different Pantone Colors
• Use two or three different StyleSheets
• Two Master Pages
• Numbering of Pages
• Two or three captions for your images
• A page to talk about Albers and Itten (you will need to look them up as part of your research.

* The above project will be due the last day of class. 

Using Photoshop, create an image in the manner of the Surrealism artists. Check out Magritte's painting above and other artists of that period. You could also think in terms of creating a "lie".

Put each image on its own layer and use features such as the feather feature and various transparencies. This project will be due next Monday.

Clipping Path Project

DSGD 83

San Jose State University

Photoshop Assignment Using Clipping Path

Using the features of making a clipping path in Photoshop, select an image and create a selection and export it to Illustrator. Once the selection is in Illustrator, make a text box using the pen tool and then place Lorem ipsum inside that box. You may also use a poem or lyics from a song as text.

 

This project will be due Next Monday and will be presented on screen.

If Poem Assignment

Look up the "If" poem by Kilping and copy it. In bring the copy into a new Illustrator document and once you have read it, select on or two lines that standout to you and somehow make those standout from the rest visually. You are to copy the complete poem.

The above assignment will be due along with the self portrait on Monday.