For Wednesday, November 10th

Same thing - keep plugging on the 2nd of your final five projects!

Note: ALL final five projects will need to be scanned as .jpgs and saved on a CD to be turned in on exam day - this is required for ALL students.

Here's the blog post about Problems and Constraints by Seth Godin - pretty much defines design.

Richard - Here is a video on Lane Smith's method on PRINCESS HYACINTH. Here is a quote from Lane Smith:

"A lot of reviewers have misidentified my technique as airbrush or dyes or even egg tempera. .. Actually, my work is rendered in oil paints."      - Visit KidsRead.com and scroll down to read the entire description.

For Monday, November 8th

For both classes - you should be well into the second project of our Final Five. Keep in mind, I will not be here Friday, so the final presentation will be Monday the 15th when all work should be mounted and presented first thing.

You can also be working on your extra credit projects to present on exam day.

Betsy and All - You know you wanted to see this: Fisheye lens dog photos.

Ryan - I found the wood-cut artist - Gustave Doré, here he did a shipwreck.

Stephen and Drue...


Note to me: Remind everybody I will need digital files of all completed artwork!

For Friday, November 5th

For both classes - the first of your final five is due first thing Friday - mounted to black board. Click the link above for exact specifications for each class.

3010 - You now have an extra credit assignment added to the Final Five page above. Here's the children's book illustrator I mentioned when talking about the level of rendering I'd like you to shoot for: Chris Van Allsburg.

Ryan, I'm having a hard time finding the painting I spoke to you about, but these have some interesting points to them: Cutty Sark on the Wool Run and The Mayflower at Sea. Both have the viewer down low, below the horizon line. The foreground is very much in our face (and somewhat shadowed as the viewer is intended to be looking at the boat in the background).

For Wednesday, November 3rd

     For both classes - your first mounted piece is due first thing Friday!!!! Lots to do! Make sure you have all your necessary supplies for Wednesday. Now would be the time to break out the better papers and supplies.
     Stephen - It was Keith Haring!!!

For Monday, November 1st

For both classes - we'll be thick into working on the first project in our Final Five. For those who missed Wednesday - we'll go through ALL your work to figure out what those finals will be. Be prepared to dive in and WORK!!! Hope everybody has a great Halloween!

For Wednesday, October 26th

For Both Classes: Be sure to bring in all your projects Wednesday so we can pick out your final five! (Check the new link above for details.)

3010 - You'll turn in your Macy's Day Parade artwork Wednesday after critique, then we'll talk individually about your final five.
     Here's the illustrator we talked about, Peter Sis, especially the cover for Madlenka.
     Also remember to be gathering your Color Boards project - 2 to 3 collaged layouts of your personal color palette colors.

3050 - You'll turn in your Texas Snake Roundup project after critique, then we'll talk individually about your final five.

For Monday, October 25th

Hi Guys! In drawing we were talking about going ahead and purchasing "YourName.com" and sitting on it if you need to, if an actual website is still far off in your future. Grabbing your domain while you can is a good idea in today's web marketing environment. I asked Mr. Webb if he had a favorite place to buy domains and he said he likes http://cheapdomains.com/. I don't believe this is a hosting company - but purely a domain purchasing site.

To both classes - Gather all your projects for this semester together and bring them to class on Wednesday. We'll decide which projects will become your "Final Five" for the semester!

3010 - Monday we'll go over your Macy's Day parade (from above) images. You were already showing good progress today so I'm excited to see what you do. Remember - you are the stage director. Plan your lighting consciously! You'll turn your finals in first thing Wednesday.
     I've posted the image of a wine bottle which reflects the light source as both a hard shape and also as a gradient - as we discussed in class.
Per Copyright: Ryan and all - here is a site with copyright free images you can use on blogs, etc. without worry: Wikimedia Commons. Along that line, I've also posted the link to my own copyright guidelines (click the Angel). You should click through on the "Orphan Works" link as that is especially relevant to the topic we discussed. Also, here are YouTube's Terms - #6 especially pertains to our discussion. By posting a video on YouTube, you are promising it is yours to share, and that you are giving users permission to share through YouTube's embed function. Vimeo doesn't offer an embed feature (if I remember correctly), so you have to link to a video on their site (I think).

3050 - Monday we'll go over your "Texas State Fair: Rattlesnake Round-up" t-shirt and do more work on them. They'll be due first thing Wednesday.
     Bianka - here's the link to Mingei World Arts. They carry a lot of Day of the Dead items.