If you still do not have your portrait photos, continue working on the tutorials.

Portrait Contact Sheets

Your 24 picture Contact Sheet for the portrait assignment is due today. Please complete the contact sheet rubric and print your images in color.

If you do not have you photos today, please complete the dispersion tutorial. 

Restoration and Colorizing

This week is dedicated to completing...

-Restoration: complete the piece and turn in the single and the before and after pair as jpegs into the N drive. Print a copy of the pair in color and turn in with your name on the back of the print out.

-Colorizing: this is a tutorial for the tutorial tab on the blog. Either an old photo or a modern picture can be used. A color picture will need to be changed to black and white for this process to work. Colorizing can be selective, keeping some of the black and white in the photo. This will be turned in as a JPEG and printed in color with you name on the back.

-tutorials: Vintage Tutorial and Retro Tutorial. Place as a PSD into the turn in folder.

-Portraits!!!!! This is a great time to use the "photo-booth" to start taking your pictures for this assignment. This is also a great time to research and get organized so you can take some great pictures. The "photo-booth" can also be used during ie today and tomorrow. Passes will be needed for you and your model(s) for Monday. Contact sheets and a plan are due by Next Monday. I will have a Portrait Plan for you to complete this week. 

Portraiture!

Portraiture!

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious 

and the smirk. 
Charles Dickens

Self Portrait:   a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist.

Portraiture:  the creation of any portrait, an artistic representation of a person

Some images done prior: Portraiture Power Point!
And who doesn't love power points!

Now... some that we can also begin to work with...
LEVITATION!

This is how it will be done!!

This is how it can look....

How can we make this better?!

Goals with this project:  
24 images to work with... multiple shots, variety in images... what can we work with, how do we 

want the composition to look?  what are we trying to define of ourselves or the person?

Are you creating a series?

DO you plan to create a complex composite portrait in the tradition of Brooke Shaden or Martin de Pasquale? 

List what would make this GREAT!!

What do I need to have images of?

Where do I need to go for your location?

What will it take to make this happen?

Are you working in any levitation: TRIPOD IS A MUST.

Some photographers...

Brooke Shaden-we saw her at DC Everest

Lara Jade - she has become more commercial unfortunately.. her beginning stuff was awesome!

Portraits in general

Images to glance at..

Annie Leibovitz's Disney Celebrity Portraits 

Dave Engledow

Martin de Pasquale/

Restoration

Wednesday through Friday
-Work on scanning your old photos ASAP!
-Work on the restoration of it or them.
-No photos? Work on the retro and vintage tutorials

Continuing Restoration...

We are going to learn how to fill missing parts of photograph. Once these pieces are filled then you can continue to use the healing tools to complete the photograph reconstruction. Save the finish restoration into your H drive. We will be using this completed picture later.

You should be scanning your photos from home today. They can also be scanned and placed in this folder tonight. Recommend having 2 more photos to work with.

The Fine Art Trios are graded.  There are many people with F's due to not turning them in. Please get this done ASAP.

Wednesday! Restoration

Wednesday! Restoration

For next week bring in images for scanning.  
You will want one for fixing damage and the other for colorizing.

1.  First job is to learn restoration on images.
2. Second job is to bring in images of your own to use.

3. Third job is finish whatever projects you may have not completed yet.

Once your practice image is restored we will move into altering the color of the image, or for

many, adding color.  You will finally be ready to get started on your own photographs. YAY!

GOT CRACKS?

Check this tut out!

We are ready to try painting again.  Please watch the video again. Storm will show everyone how to set up your pen and tablet.  Complete the homework and turn it in in color please.

Thanks Storm!

This Weeks Schedule

-Photomontage: I started grading these, but see that I need more information from everyone. I will hand these back so you can add an explanation/description for #4. Turn them back in ASAP. Thank you!

-Fine Art Trio: Lab time for the remainder of  the week. Remember that you are designing with brushes only that you find at Brusheezy.com or other free brush site.

-Digital Painting: We will go back to painting next week with a tutorial on calibrating your tablet and how to set up Photoshop for pressure sensitivity.

Fine Art Trio

The Fine Art Trio 

-Is designed using only brushes.

-Creates three compelling images 

--which individually have a strong composition.

--as a group relate to one another through color and content.

New Assignment:

Fine Art Triptych-a 3 image series that could be displayed together or alone.

Again, you all have a lot of great things to resource but this is created with 

brushes and textures.

Fine Art Canvas creations w/ brushes and textures....  it can be anything.  gory and 
gruesome/ happy and jolly/ sick/ posterized/ abstract/ real/...think about a theme to 
create a starting point. Composition is critical! Create depth, use visual elements to tie 3
 canvases together.

Think Composition & Color... more example to come!

Examples:

Digital Painting

1-watch the video together
2-read the tutorial information
3-copy the worksheet and open it in photoshop
4-practice color mixing using a stylus
5-return the stylus

Lesson Three: Mixing colors

Digital Painting

Today we will be following the same process as last week:

1-Watch the video together.
2-Read the tutorial information.
3-Get a stylus, and complete the homework assignment to practice the video techniques.
4-Return the stylus (today you actually get to have one :D )

We will work on this today and tomorrow.

Lesson Two: Brushes and Erasers

Digital Painting Video tutorial

1-As a class, you will watch the video for this tutorial.  

2-As you have time this hour, read the information that accompanies the video. It will help you setup a new document, and review information.

3-Complete the homework section listed at the bottom of the tutorial page.  To do this, you will need to make sure your your drawing tablet is plugged in.  Take a moment to plug your tablet into the back of the computer.  Many of them are disconnected, because it is clumsy to have them plugged in front.

4-Get a stylus.  Have fun practicing.

5-All styluses must be returned at the end of the hour each day, or you will not be able to use them.

HDR- there are great images in your Devil's Lake contact sheets that are ready for the HDR treatment.  The HDR final images are due Thursday of this week.  To find the original tutorial for HDR, type HDR into the search in the blog.  It will select all the entries that include HDR in the blog entry.  I am looking forward to seeing these.  I will ask a few of you to print them for display around school.

We are moving forward tomorrow with digital painting. We will be completing several days of practicing with styluses and drawing tablets. Next week we will be formally starting a nature painting.

Threshold painting and Photomontage assignments should be turned in this week.

Threshold...

Threshold...

What's Threshold?
It is the reduction of a photo to straight black and white.  As the artist you can change 
the balance of black to white in your composition.  We will be manipulating the contrast 
balance and adding color as we go.

Steps.
1. copy bkgrd
2. image>adjustments>threshold-slide the contrast so there is a little white
3. magic wand- select white>select similar>delete
4. select inverse
5. begin color scheme: what are you looking for with color in the image?
6. paintbrush>color>ctrl D= deselect
7. repeat

This is great intro to digital painting.  Choose an image from your Devil's Lake shoot 

for this piece.  Choose a color scheme that creates the mood you would like to convey 

with this piece.  Cool colors are quiet and melancholy, while warm colors are exciting
and cheerful. 

Lab Day!

Have you completed the hair and eyes tutorials?

Halloween is coming up.  This would be a great time to try out the ZOMBIE tutorial.

Still missing contact sheets for the photomontage assignment.  This is required to get full credit for the photomontage.

Next week we begin to transition in nature painting.

Devil's Lake Contact sheets are due today.

Continue working on your Photomontage.

Thank you for being such a great group at Devil's Lake.  It was a wonderful day with beautiful light!
Thank you for being on time at being help when Ms. Kleman was at the hospital.

Today you can load your photos onto your H drive or into the D drive. The contact sheet with your rubric will be due by Monday. Print the contact sheet first, and then throw out the poor photos second.

Finish up you hair and eye tutorials.
Keep working on your Photomontage.  We will be having a critique on Tuesday.

Nature Photography-Galen Rowell

Lab Day!

Be sure to get everything together for the field trip tomorrow.  We will be meeting in the main art room tomorrow morning.  Be on time!

Lab Day!

Permission slips and money are due TODAY!!!!!

Have you thought about the things you need to bring for the trip?
-Working on portraits? Bring some props like dresses, hats, costumes, make-up...
-Food? We can grill out there.

Something neat to look into.... WE have done some of this through photoshop and using 

texture application and displacement layers.

WE ARE going to hit something up today quick...
It is a pretty neat feature and something we could use to create into a full blown project:  

Just an Effect.

It kind of goes like this....HDR effect.  Use this tutorial to create a High Dynamic Range
 photograph of your own.

This is a series of 5 images that I took at Hartman.  I adjusted the exposure with 2 images 
under exposed and 2 over exposed.The middle image looks like this...

After adjusting the photo using merge to HDR Pro, the image looks like this...

Try it out using my pictures.  It's lots of fun!

You will be given an HDR assignment at Devil's Lake.

Review the Photomontage Assignment write-up from last week.

Create your background first.
Use only pictures that you have taken, and that are on your contact sheets that you handed in.  You will be marking the images that you use and handing in the contact sheets again with your finished composition.
If there is an image that you want....go take it...with your camera!


Field Trip

1. equipment checked out?  Please return it!

2. permission slips need to be turned in to me asap.  $12 secures your seat on the bus.  We will have assignments based on the pictures on this trip, so yes, it's important!  If you are not going, you will get the assignment Thursday during class.  Contact sheets for this assignment will be due for everyone on Monday.

Bring lunch/grill out.
Props, costumes, make-up
Camera, batteries, tripods
Dress for the weather


Grades are looking better across the board.  There are still people needing to get assignments completed.  It's not too late.

Keep working on you photomontage.

Next 2 exercises:
Hair and eyes exercises will be due next week.

We will be starting a digital painting unit next.
Portrait will be following.  The trip on Thursday is a great opportunity to take photos that could be used for the Portrait Unit.  Think back to Brooke Shaden...

Photomontage Assignment Details

What do you find inspiring?

PLACEMENT.
Finding the perfect fit.
The way pieces fit together to produce some kind of peace within the viewing.  
It can also create excitement and suspense.
It can be beyond chaotic but within the constructed chaos we need to be able to find our

connection...
A place.

Like this photo...
Can we relate?  What do we feel, see, find within this image?
What makes a pieces work?

Look back at the photomontage examples.

Find inspiration within your images... if they don't inspire you then take more pictures that DO.  
Be sure to turn in a contact with any new images.

Jerry Uelsmann Assignment

Our assignment is to use images from your first shooting assignment and to create a

photographic collage using nothing except images from the actual contact sheets. You
will not be allowed to download or use any images from the Internet or another 
person’s creation. The work will be based on  Jerry Uelsmann style of composition with additional inspiration from Surrealist artists. 
Your final composition will demonstrate that you learned  and mastered several important 
PhotoShop skills in this project including: layers, filters, transparency, 
scaling, rotating, distorting, feathering, and proper file preparation.

The first step is to analyze your contact sheet and look at all the items you have to 

work with. Many items are not meant to be used as a whole image, just as individual 

parts. Also look for an image to be used as a background. Many of you have some 

beautiful sunsets or other landscapes to use for this. I recommend some kind of 

land/sky or sky/water image that might look good “mirrored”.

Work out some sketches for some compositions. Remember that Uelsmann often 

used backgrounds and settings as the base environment in which several symbolic, 

often mysterious images, were place into the environment. Sometimes they are 

merely placed next to each other, sometimes blended together, often times floating 

(and creating realistic shadows). Use the rule of thirds, or other designed planning 

system. DO NOT JUST RANDOMLY PLACE OBJECTS ON THE CANVAS! You

should limit the number of large objects in your composition. Many objects could 

become small accessories or strange additions to the image. Remember to use 

unnatural size differences to create a sense of the surreal to the image. 

I have gotten you started with the file preparation and canvas creation.

Remember to constantly be aware of the symbolic or metaphor potential in all subject 

matter. Little in art is put into an image without it meaning something or to enhance

 the design of the piece (balance, unity, dominance, etc.).

Recap, Refresh, and Review

Recap, Refresh, and Review

Lets remind ourselves about yesterday.

Shadows are important.  Creating an interesting composition is vital!
Search for differences.  Work to find images that relate and compliment each other.

Ex1 due this friday... Save as a PSD and in the N-drive folder.

sur·re·al·ism

səˈrēəˌlizəm/

noun

1. a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Tomorrow you will receive the details of the Photomontage Assignment.

Tuesday

Moving into Photo-montage Project

I have updated in skyward with a few grades.
Mutants will be graded throughout this week, but if I was missing anything in the N-drive 
from you such as: the short story document or the PSD saved mutant that was recorded in
 skyward.....well.

We are going to continue working with a variety of ways to create a composition and work with

 layers that we have in our photo-montage to give us depth, variety, and interest.

Today we continue work on flipping/mirroring and opacity reminders.

Get on track with your photos.... they are what makes everyday in here worthwhile!

Due this week:
Exercise 1: Displacement: Friday

Due last week:
Contact Sheets
Mutant, rubric and story: Friday (lots of points!  Don't forget about it!)
Uelsmann Worksheet:  email to me now (include a copy of the picture you are analyzing)

**if you did not take the camera quiz please make that up TODAY or complete the worksheet by Wednesday.

Creating a Composition...

Creating a Composition...

requires resources.

If you don't have pictures to use.....

1.  You are late.... don't drop the ball!
2.  I have some images for you to borrow in the N-drive...

YAY!!!!

...but they cannot be used in your final!

Contact sheets need to be printed and edited with the rubric stapled to them. 

Please return your cameras.
Contact sheets & Rubrics due today.
Due Friday: Ex 1. Displacement Layers

I will be grading the Mutants this week and next all week.  SO grades will gradually appear.
The Uelsmann worksheet and the camera quiz have been graded and entered.  
If you are failing, you will be scheduled with me for ie at least once a week.  Check your schedule!

Work Day!

what do you need to get finished?

-Mutant?
-Contact Sheet?
-Ex 1. Displacement Layers?
-Uelsmann assignment?

Also...many people did not understand the camera basics.  I have shared an assignment to help you understand the camera and raise your quiz score.  This assignment should be completed by next Friday.

Your BIG Day!
Love this day!

CAMERA QUIZ!

Alright:
Today..... we are going to focus on images getting printed as contact sheets... we are
going to run through this today and tomorrow to get that down.

Uelsmann assignment should be completed by Friday. Save it in 
the H drive.  Your assignment should include pictures of the things you are describing.

Mutant and Story are in the N-drive.
Mutant (with you name on the back) and Rubric printed and handed in to me no later than Friday.

Lab fees need to be paid by Friday.

Contact sheets will be due Friday from everyone unless
you have chatted with me....

Cameras must be return by Friday!

Saturday is the big GRADING DAY.. so make sure you are communicating with me
on where you are at or the goose eggs will begin appearing! ;)

Transitioning

Tuesday

Obligations:
$5 lab fee needs to be in by Friday!!! I will be sending all 
outstanding obligations to Mrs. Keller
 Friday after class.

Breakdown of today, Wednesday and Thursday:

Today: Work time.  Work on the Uelsmann assignment. Load 
pictures into your 'H' drive, if you have them.

Wednesday: 

• Contact Sheet Printing Steps.  
• Uelsmann assignment Due by Friday-Save in H drive  
• Mutants save the PSD and the Backstory in N-drive.  Last day is Friday.
• Title doc with your name and the assignment name.
• complete and print out the mutant rubric and the mutant turn in together.

Thursday: Contact Sheets and Contact Sheet Rubric Printed 
and handed in.  
Lets get things pulled together

Photo-montage examples 

Tutorials

Tutorials

For your first tutorial there are some images in the tutorial helper 

folder in the N-drive.  It is due by Oct 10th.
These images will correlate with the TEXTURE APPLICATION tut #2.
We also call this displacement.
This tutorial can also be found on your digital imaging tutorial tab... there 

are others... I give you options.
OH, THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHOICES!
Exercise #1 is due by this Friday.

Hopefully you are doing well with your first shooting assignment.  

Remember to bring them in as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday.  They
can be brought in using either a flash drive, memory card or disk.

These pictures will be used on your next project.  All the images used for your next 

assignment will be taken by YOU!.  And ONLY you :)

Equipment waivers!
Lab Fee.

NOW.....

DRUM ROLL PLEASE...

JERRY!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Jerry Uelsmann.

Worksheet found in N-drive.

Get It Done.

Will be done online and can be saved in your 'H' drive, and emailed to me.

Uelsmann Inspiration

Tired of Talking