SHAPE

All seen things encompass one of five shapes.

GEOMETRIC: related to plane geometry (circle, triangle, rectangle…)

RECTILINEAR: shapes composed of all straight edges or lines (not geometric shapes)

CURVILINEAR: shapes composed of only curved edges or lines (not geometric shapes)

IRREGULAR: shapes composed of a combination of straight and curved lines (not geometric shapes)

AUTOMATIC AND/OR CALLIGRAPHIC: brush marks, spilled paint on the ground – these shapes are not controlled.

Shapes can be either objective or non-objective

OBJECTIVE: related to an object (representational)

NON-OBJECTIVE: no relation to an object (non-representational)

Draw twelve equally sized squares, each of which is to be viewed as its own compositional (picture) plane.  Each square must be equally spaced from each other.

Draw one black shape in each of the twelve compositional planes.  Make sure that there is no or little repetition in the types and appearances of the shapes.

Use as much of an 11’ x 14” sheet of paper as possible.

Progress Crit

MWF – September 8

TR – September 9

Project 1: Newton’s Laws of Motion Storyboarding
Basic Storyboarding according to Newton’s principles of motion
Required: Three, nine-frame storyboards on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Include written descriptions. Any non-digital, black and white drawing media may be used (pencil, black pen, black marker, etc.).
Due: In progress sketches and notes. Three, nine-frame storyboards.

Sir Isaac Newton: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, William Dawson & Sons, 1687 (as know as Newton’s Laws of Motion).
1. Objects at rest will stay at rest and objects in motion will stay in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
2. Force is equal to mass times acceleration
3. For every action there is always an opposite and equal reaction.

Step 1: Find Motion. Find three examples of anything in motion that demonstrates at least one of Newton’s three laws of motion. Motion must be uninitiated by the student. Students should look for motion and not create motion. For example, watching a ball being kicked back and forth instead of asking two people to kick a ball back and forth is an uninitiated motion. Studying the effects on curtains blowing in a window instead of twirling around fabric by hand is an uninitiated motion. The purpose for uninitiated motion is to challenge students to see motion in things that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Step 2: Observe, Sketch, and Write about Motion. After finding motion that represents Newton’s laws of motion, begin by describing the motion with notes and sketching real time drawings – drawings done on site that record the motion as it takes place. Students should produce a series of sequential drawings that tell the story clearly. After enough information about the motion has been recorded, students may redraw the event in nine frames that will make up the final story board. Final frames must be drawn with either pencil, black pen/marker, black ink, or black and white paint. No color or digital means will be used.
Step 3: Edit Frames. After you have made a sequence of drawings that tell the story, start editing the frames to exactly nine frames. Storyboards should tell the story of the motion in a logical, sequential order – in other words, the events of the story should come right after each other in the order the story is being told. Students should look critically at how the sequence will begin, how the motion is conveyed, and how the story ends – all of which should be shown clearly in the final storyboard frames.
Step 4: Transfer Final Frames to Storyboard. Once each story is determined and communicates the motion in nine frames, transfer the drawings to the final template. The may be done by redrawing, photocopying, or tracing the selected frames. Add a brief, hand written paragraph consisting of two or three sentences describing the motion for each storyboard below the frames.

Materials Needed
Sketchbooks, drawing paper, journal – whatever is comfortable for the students to sketch and take notes.
Three copies of the provided storyboard template. Black and white, non-digital media – pencil, black pen/marker, black ink, or black and white paint. No color or digital means will be used.

Grading out of 100
Concept: 60%. Student was able to visualize an appropriate, clear, well organized, and memorable solution to the given problem.
Presentation / Craft: 30%. Level of finish achieved in final presenation.
Class Participation: 10% Ability to articulate thoughts and ideas in a group setting and with the instructor about the project, in a professional and respectful manner that fosters and creates a learning environment.

Progress Critique: Monday September 8

Scanning and Colorizing a Black and White Image

Objectives
Printing high quality images from scans.

Colorizing a black and white image in Photoshop.

Guidelines

From a former photography class find a good quality black and white negative

Scan at 4000 dpi and 16 bit
Use  Photoshop for the best contrast and detail

Colorize the image in Photoshop
Be sure to keep original un-colorized image as your bottom layer
print final image as an 8 x 10
mat the final image for presentation

Progress Critique on Monday July 14
Final matted prints due on July 21

Summer 2008

Color Assignment

Create a series of three images addressing color and color schemes

Objectives:

1 Using a digital camera

2 Color and color schemes

3 Editing your work to create a powerful series

4 Creating flawless prints

Guidelines

Photograph images in the following color schemes

Primary
Complimentary
Monochromatic
Analogous

Edit your photographs down to the three best images.  Print them as large as possible on a 13 x 19 sheet of paper.  

Progress critique on Monday July 14
Final matted prints due on July 21

Students in my Special Topics: Internet Art class have organized and curated an exhibition on the internet art site, <terminal>.  

Terminal is a space sponsored by the Department of Art and the Center of Excellence For The Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University to showcase and examine internet art.

Visit Terminal

All student must also secure permission to include the website in the on-line exhibition from its creator or copyright holder.  Written documentation confirming permission has been granted must be submitted with the final writing assignment.

The central writing assignment will be a catalogue entry for the on-line exhibition.  Students will work on this entry and submit one final text.  All catalogue entries are to be fully researched and include a bibliography of relevant references.

Presentations will take place on Thursday April 17. 
The final text is due via e-mail no later than 5 pm on April 23. 

Holzer says, “I like to be absolutely out of view and out of earshot.  I don’t sign my work because I think that would diminish its effectiveness.”Discuss Holzer’s statement.How does Holzer’s appropriation of text and collaboration with writers serve this objective?