First Assignment

2D IMAGING: THINGS YOU NEED TO DO ASAP----->

Start a blog in Blogger.com and personalize it. Everything you do for this class will be posted to the blog.

Email me your blog’s URL: joy.garnett@gmail.com

“Join” or “follow” the class blog throught your blogger interface: http://ccnyart2d.blogspot.com

FIRST ASSIGNMENT--->

BE PREPARED TO WORK ON THIS FOR THE NEXT TWO TO THREE WEEKS (and then some....)

Find images (as many as you like) in the following "conventional" pictorial categories on the Internet and save them to a folder: they can come from any source (advertizing, news, museum sites, etc.)

1) landscape;

2) portrait;

3) interior scenes;

4) still life;

5) a famous painting of your choosing, any artist from any era.

NEW: 6) other: crowds, the figure, abstractions, microscopic imagery, astronomical images.....

Work at combining (remixing) parts taken from these images into one (or more) new image/s. It’s up to you how you want to change all the parts, what to discard and what to keep, and how you combine them using the tools in Photoshop. Feel free to also try tools we haven’t yet worked with in class. Experiment, make mistakes, and have fun. Think about what kind of image you want this to be in the end, but take as many experimental routes in getting to your goal as you want. Look at other art online or in books or magazines. Feel free to change your intentions and objectives at any point. Be prepared to discuss these changes and ideas in class.

Make as many new versions as you like, and save them all as .psd to a personal folder for future use.

Finally, when ready, choose the image you wish to put forward as your final project outcome. Consider this image to be an artwork, as opposed to just sketches or an assignment. Continue to work on it until you are satisfied.

Take your final project as well as all the “sketch” images (and failures) that you’ve been working on. Each image is to be prepared for uploading to your blog: first save each file as a jpeg, then size them for the web at 72dpi. Upload the images to your blog, all in one post, with the “final” project at the very top. We will all look at these together in class and discuss/critique them.

                 

THIS IS THE LAST ASSIGNMENT YOU’LL RECEIVE AS A PRINT-OUT (EVERYTHING WILL BE POSTED HERE FROM NOW ON)