Art with the Ipads!

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Big Ben

Big Ben Anamorphosis!

                    

               

   To change the photo to the correct perspective in order to make an anamorphosis, we used photoshop.  We used a tool that let you control the picture and put it into different perspectives.  We altered ours so that it looked as if it were 3-d even though it was only a 2-D picture on a piece of paper.

   Streching the picture in certain places, adding shadow, and recreating the picture on a grid, so that it had the same scale as the picture we had altered using the computer, allowed us to create a lifelike picture only using colored pencils.  With the help of the grid, it was easier to transform the image since we had lines as refrence to us were to put the lines. 

Spider Chalk Mural:)

This mural was drawn with colored chalk on the side of a wall in a way that made it look like people could interact with the picture.  Ours was of a spider, where the person who interacted was playing the part of the spider's prey. It was definately alot of work to get all of the colors to blend and stand out enough, but i think it turned out pretty well...except for the chalk all over our clothes:)

Animal Print Results:)

This is the final result from the previous post: Animal prints/sketches.



Spray Painted Stencils

                    

 

   To Begin this project we started by selecting a photo and then adjusting it with threshold in photoshop so that it was black and white only.  With it black and white I was able to blow it up to a much larger size and then use a projector to trace it onto a poster board.  The poster would later be used to get cut out with an Xacto Knife and turned into a stencil.  With the contrast of the black and white, it was easy to locate the positive and negative space and use it to identify what parts of the poster should be removed.  You had to be catious while cutting, making sure to only cut in the places that were marked and being careful not to cut yourself with the blade.

   After preparing the stencil, we moved on to creating the background of the stencil.  It consisted mostly of a collage of old newspapers that had been ripped into bunches of shapes and the occasional colored paper to give detail.  We attatched the paper to a wooden frame, backed with cardboard by covering it in a diluted glue. Once it was dry we added another layer of color by spreading a water and colored paint mixture on it.  It is best to choose a paint color that is in contrast with the color you are planning to spray paint, so that the stencil is very visible.  After it dries it's ready for spray paint.

   Spray paint, the last step, is what transfers your stencil onto the frame and completes the project.  Choosing a vibrant color that stands out against your background is the best choice.  Before we spray painted the design we first used items with simple designs to create a texturous look underneath the stencil.  Afterwards we layed our already cut stencil on the now dry frame, making sure it was pressed down and spray painted it and let it dry.  This compositon of steps creates and completes the stencil.

Animal Prints/Sketches

 

Texture is important to have in all sketches because it adds character into anything and can bring out a lot of details that make each sketch alot more interesting.

The importance of having more than one reference to a sketch is that with several sketches you can see what is different between each one, and you can use them to  compare each other and find the better one.  Also, another advantage is that it gives you more choices and you can changes things in each sketch as you go.

Whichever sketch has more lines or covers more white of the page is the better choice.  It will always turn out more detailed and complex.

 

 

Value Portraits Art Critique

                                                                                                                                                        

To create my drawing, I first had to recieve a picture from mr. Sands of a person in our class.  From that picture I had to determine any differences in value within the persons face.  Then it was a matter of tracing my outlines onto my sketchbook and shading acordingly to what I had traced.  Also smudging so that it didn't just look like a bunch of lines.

To find and separate the differences in value within my portrait, I held the picture with tracing paper against a light source, and circled any differences betweens shades of the face through a variety of random shapes.  By doing this I was separating parts of his face that would later be shaded differently.  Once I had these shapes I could relate to the photo on how dark each shape should  be.  I did this untill the whole face was shaded, then I smudged certain patches together.

My portrait is a little bit on the lighter side.  there is definately a range of colors, but I think their could have been more.  By shading more in different places I created the differences in value.

It is neat and has a variety of values. It may not look exactly like my person, but there are several alike features.  I think it is neat because there are no lines and the drawing actually looks pretty realistic.

Some problems that came into the way of my drawing include too much of a shadow on the person's face so it was hard to, trace, and also the fact that alot of the shading would blend together.  I fixed the tracing issue by hand drawing out some of the nonvisible features and also putting the tracing paper up against a light source.  For the shading, I went back and added darker patches to the face without blending much at all.