3/18/08 -Foreground and Background in Design
“Postcard Assignment”
GOAL:
1. Create 3 postcards each 4”x6”
2. Each postcard will be well designed with interesting
foreground AND background.
3. Each postcard will focus on a different theme:
ROMANTICISM- “EMOTIONS”
REALISM- “PEOPLE AT WORK”
IMPRESSIONISM- “LANDSCAPE or ENVIRONMENT”
4. Write an artist statement explaining how your design
relates to each of the above three themes.

DIRECTIONS: Find an interesting silhouette shape that is large enough to touch 3 sides of your card AND has interesting negative space.
1. Cut out the silhouette (save the outside, it may be useful)
2. Use the silhouette to find 2 more magazine photographs to trace it on to. Now you should have 3 identically shaped objects.
3. Next, look for 3 backgrounds that are each 4”x6” for your silhouettes. Remember you are conveying three separate themes:
“EMOTIONS”, “PEOPLE AT WORK”, and “LANDSCAPE / ENVIRONMENT”.
4. Next, get approval before gluing!
5. Glue the backgrounds onto the 4”X6” tag board. As you glue the silhouettes make sure that all three are placed in the same position.
6. Write artist statement on the back of the postcard.
7. Choose one of your postcards to enlarge and color match on separate paper.

ADDITIONAL DESIGN POINTERS:
1. CONTRAST IS IMPORTANT
- Contrast value (dark with light)
- Contrast texture/pattern (plain with busy)
- Contrast color (bold with dulled)
2. HOW WILL YOU HOLD VIEWER'S INTEREST?
- Use action
- Tell a story
- Have a focal point (emphasis)
- Challenge the viewer
- Be creative
3. THINK ABOUT COLOR
- What is your color scheme?
- Do you want to camouflage or emphasize?
- Repeat a color?
Most of all think about and use the principle of good design:
Emphasis, harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, variety

REMEMBER:
1. Image, the silhouette, touches 3 sides.
2. The image spreads across the page.
3. Backgrounds should relate to:
Romanticism “emotions”
Realism “people at work”
Impressionism “Landscape/environment”
4. No lettering
5. Get Approval before gluing


3/3/08 -Doodle 4 Google Contest
1. Create an original design that applies to the theme of "What If"to the Google Logo. Get 3 copies of the Google Brainstorm Sheet.
2. Write a 50 word artist statement explaining your "What If" concept.
3. Critique another students Doodle 4 Google idea on the Doodle Critique Sheet.

2/1/08- Design Tile
- 3 4"x4"design ideas using basic art ingredients of geometric or organic lines, shapes, symbols, representational motifs and color. Create an interesting and unified composition using the basic art directions of contrast,pattern, emphasis, and rhythem.
- Best design will be enlarged on a piece of 6"x"'6 tagboard. Photocopies will be made of various sizes for rearrangement and variety of design on final composition. Every student's original design will be use to work out color scheme first and then displayed as a class.
- Complete final art piece in color.


Drawing Techniques
- Cover up/inverted drawing
- Blind, pure, modified, reinforced contour " hand" drawings


POINTILLISM
- Enlarge Image
- Under paint using complementary color scheme
- Color Match...tints,tones,and shades
- Apply paint in pointillist technique

SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
1. First come up with a theme or title for a surrealistic painting.
What kind of story or message do you want to convey in your painting?
Do you want to make a social, political, personal, or humorous statement?
2. Surrealist Composition Ideas: Sketch book drawings, Anthropomorphic, "innate objects having human characteristics",Visual puns created from compound words or figures of speech that have double meaning. ( cupcake, lighthouse,carpool)
3. In your sketch book, draw your creative composition ideas.
How will you fill the space of the picture plane? What will be the focal point? Who's the "star" of the show? What will you emphasize?
What will be secondary points of interest? What will make your painting unusual and "surreal"?
4. Think about the color scheme you will use.
Know your purpose! What effect do you want? What colors will best convey this effect?
Start with the background color (which is often light or dull shades) and then move onto your accent colors, (which might be dark and vivid).
Use achromatic colors for harmony.( black , white, grey)
Composition suggestions: Distribute the weight of the objects, use all the space, let your drawing run off the page, use light and dark areas,
repeat a shape in different sizes or colors, have main subject as large as your hand so it can be seen at a distance, break up the background.

MIXED COLOR DESIGN
- Mix a variation of one color (80 minimum)
-Think about the value of base hue by including tints,tones, and shades
-Contrast the design with the background


LARGER THEN LIFE "SELF-PORTRAIT"
Drawing Tips:
- Use a grid
- Comparative Measurement
- Work with image Upside down
- Cover up

CHALK PASTELS " SELF-PORTRAIT of EMOTIONS"
Tips for pastel use:
- Stencils make clean edges
-Blending can have marks on top
- Be careful about how many colors you blend
- Erasing will make a clean surface
- Fixative is used to build up in layers

ANALOG BOOK OF EMOTIONS
Illustrate feelings, ideas and thoughts rather then things
Process:
Students will complete 8 images of human characteristics or emotional states using the language of line.
Label and Identify each emotion with a paragraph.

"The Kind of mental image needed for thought is unlikely to be complete, colorful, and faithful replica of some visible scene"- Rudolf Arnheima