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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

7th Media Arts Typography drawing

Create a "Typographic Collage"
1. Think of a word that is meaningful to you
2. Trace different fonts and letter styles into a composition. Use care and craftsmanship.

Graphic Design Off the computer
Typography composition

Videos:
PBS Off Book Typography
The History of Typography

Available link for download

7th Media Arts You are what you Eat!

Research and Planning Worksheet

Questions 1-5: Guiseppe Arcimboldo
Make a 5 Star Meal! Once you have, draw what is on your plate. TRY HERE
Go to FoodNMe.com and follow along on your worksheet
SMASH YOUR FOOD!
Make a practice food face!
Student Examples
Search for food photos
Go to roll-a-die to pick your theme

*If you have extra time, try these nutrition games:

Fit Teens

Nutrition for Kids

Videos

Work of Archimboldo

Sculpture inspired by Archimboldo

Till Nowak

Available link for download

8th Media Arts Monogram designs

Research and Brainstorming:

1. Watch the presentation on logo design.

2. Look at the websites and watch the videos below: Logo Lounge, Simple Logo Designs, Vintage Logos, Logo Awards, Logos 99

Videos: Draplin Logo Design
The Art of the Logo Design (PBS)
Change the Way you look at logos (part 1 buzzfeed)
(part 2 buzzed)
Logo Animation
Designing a logo in Ai

3. Look through the printed out logo designs on your tables

4. Fill your page with different monogram designs
and go through the folders with samples for some logo design inspiration

Make your Monogram Calling Cards

Choose your final design. Redraw on final template. Draw carefully in pencil first! Be a perfectionist! Go over your lines with Sharpie. On the back of your card, design your phone number or email or screen name or twitter. Some kind of contact info. Create with collage or by hand.

Video:Textures and Type

Available link for download

6th Media Arts Video Haiku

Complete the introduction worksheet on haikus
Go to ReadWriteThink to plan your own haiku
Write it down
Storyboard your haiku
Design your backgrounds and images in Adobe Illustrator
Optional: Download vector graphics here
Put together your you pictures with music and words in iMovie

Video

Available link for download

8th Media Arts Annie Jr Poster Design

Google Annie Jr. Posters
Stages Theater Companys Cast
Stages Annie Jr. Compilation

You can draw your own artwork on paper to scan, or in Photoshop. You can download copyright free photos to use. Change the fonts, colors and layout of the template!

Annie Jr. Summary

The Universal Arts of Graphic Design (PBS Off Book Video)

Available link for download

8th Digital ARts Yearbook

Your class has been hired to create artwork for the title page of this year’s yearbook. Use Photoshop to turn an ordinary picture of the school building into a work of art! All of the instructions can also be found on caarts.blogspot.com

Directions:

Chose and photo and copy to your desktop. Go to Fowler Classroom > Materials > School Photos.
Drag the photo onto the PS icon to open it in Photoshop
Make the photo more interesting. Change it from a dull, wintery photo into something more fun!
Try images adjustments. Go to Image (at the top) > Adjustments. Try the different menus. “Vibrance”, “Hue/Saturation” and “Color Balance” will all change your picture dramatically.
Now try Filters. Go to Filter (at the top) > Filter Gallery. Go through the folders to try different filters. You will notice whatever colors you have chosen will be used in the filters, so you may want to change your colors.
If you know how to use Photoshop, you may want to try cutting and pasting in parts of other pictures. You can use the “copyright free” photos links on caarts to look for other photos.
If you need some inspiration, look at the past student examples HERE
When you are finished, save a final copy into your folder, and the HAND IN WORK folder. Name it YourLastNameYearbook.psd

You have only this class to finish. One chosen project will receive a free yearbook!

Available link for download

7th Media Arts Animation and Cartoons introduction

This animated gif project relates to the animation projects we will try later in the semester. Watch a video on the history of animation:

The Animated History of Animation

Create an Animated GIF
Gifmaker
Imgflip
CreateMeme

some good GIFs: One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Artist GIFs from old photos: Kevin Weir

Look at these examples from last semester

We will practice writing an artist statement to go along with your project.

Extra video: The Story of Animation

CARTOON Yourself:

This project will introduce you to some basic Photoshop tools and using mouse control. We will use Photoshop to trace a digital photo and show an expressive and emotive cartoon face.

Try it:
If you have extra time, try-
Flipbook Animate
Zimmer Twins Make a Movie
Art Pad
ABC Animate

Available link for download

8th Media Arts Type Motion Graphic

How can typography (the art of designing letters and words) bring a sentence to life? We will be creating typographic movies of a favorite song lyric.

Research and Planning

Go the the Graphic Design Dictionary and write the definition for some key terms.

font, frame, graphics, layers, opacity, pixel, RGB, typography

History of Animation and Motion Graphics (Off Book PBS)

Pick a song lyric, a line from a movie, a quote or a famous saying. You want people to get it so pick something recognizable, or something emotionally powerful. The more words the longer it will take to make it, so stick with something short. Try for between 6 and 12 words. If you need some ideas, try 100 Songs Best Lines, ThinkExistSongLyrics, RollingStoneBestLyrics , famous quotes, inspirational quotes, famous lines from movies or search on your own.

All of the Lights

Off Book: Typography

Typographic motion graphics.

15 great videos

6th Media Arts Mandala Designs

We will be using Adobe Illustrator to create "mandalas". This project will use art and math skills, along with reflecting on big questions like "what brings you peace?"

What is a mandala?
Look at some mandalas
Vocabulary words: symmetry, icon, serenity, radial, reflection, concentric
Videos: Time lapse Tibetan monk mandala, Sand Mandala video, Digital mandala installation
Download Symbols.

Go to thenounproject.com.
Use the email address fowlerj@colheights.k12.mn.us,
use the password: chps157
download the "svg" file

How to create concentric elements in Adobe Illustrator

Extra time: Kaleidoscope Color in Motion Flowers The color test

Available link for download

7th Digital Arts Schoolhouse Rock Musical posters

Your class has been hired to design posters for the musical "Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.".

Research

First watch some video clips and look at what other designers have done.

Links

Schoolhouse Rock poster designs

Video Clips

Im just a Bill

A Noun is a person, place or a thing

Conjunction Junction

Unpack your Adjectives

Plan

Sketch an idea. You can design using copy-right free photos, or scan a drawing and edit on the computer

Design

Start by using the template. Go to Fowler-Classroom > Materials and copy the poster template to the desktop.

Evaluate and Critique.

One winner (or more) will be chosen to print professionally. They will also get free admission to the show and a prize!

Write an artist statement and do an online critique.

Videos

Poster Design

Available link for download

6th Digital Arts Halloween Surreal Self Portraits

We will do a quick project, for Halloween, creating "surreal" self-portraits.

Ms. FOlwer will show you some examples: presentation
6th examples

Video: Creating a Surrel Self Portrait
Halloween Psd Tutorials

To keep these school appropriate, no weapons and go easy on blood or gore.

If you need photos, get them here.

Available link for download

6th Media Arts Legendary Creatures

Directions

1. Vocabulary

Go to wordcentral.com and look up the definitions to the vocabulary words.

2. Research

a. Mythical Creatures (answer the questions in your packet)

b. Myths, Legends, Fables and Folklore (answer the questions in your packet)

c. Look at these professional examples:

Photoshop Animals 1

3. Sketch

Sketch in your packet

4. Write

Follow the directions on your worksheet, and us MSWord to write your legend.

5. Design

Go to Morguefile.com to collect your photos. Copyright law: A Fair(y) Use Tale

VIDEOS

Photoshop animals

How is Photoshop used to trick us? Is anyone model perfect?
PBS Off Book: Photoshop

Disney Legends
The Tortoise and the Hare
Mythical Creatures part 1, part 2
Cows, cows, cows
Animal Planet: Monster Week

*Extra time activities: SwitchZoo, Build Your Wild Self, Creature Creator

Available link for download

6th Media Arts Crazy School lunch

You will be using Adobe Photoshop to create a "Super Crazy School Lunch"

For your CRAZY lunch,you will add pictures of food (or other things) to turn it into a "Super Crazy School Lunch." Choose a theme for your lunch tray (for example: gross lunch, bear lunch, treasure lunch, zombie lunch, dream lunch, alien lunch, shark lunch, etc.).

What is the THEME of you lunch tray?
What 5 (or more) items will you put on your Crazy lunch tray?

Extra Credit: Design a Healthy Lunch. Include a food from each category: Dairy, Grains or starches, Meat or beans, Vegetables, Fruits.

Available link for download

8th Media Arts Monogram Logo Designs

Available link for download

6th Media Arts Sketch Up Sculpture

Research:
1. 2. 3. Go to THIS PAGE for sculpture videos and examples. Ms. Fowler will present.
Sculpture Garden websites:
Walker Sculpture Garden
Franconia
Olympic Sculpture Park

4. Outdoor Sculptures

CA students at the Walker Sculpture Garden

5. What is scale? Scale (Element of art)

6. Pick descriptive words

Past student examples

Design:

Google Sketch-Up tutorial video
Sculpture in Sketch Up

Extra Time games:

HomeStyler
Architect Studio 3D (might not work)
My Imaginary City

Available link for download

80s and 90s Kids Arts and Crafts Part II

Welcome back to another edition of 80s and 90s’ kids’ arts and crafts. For those of you in the States, I hope you had a nice long holiday weekend. To my international readers, I’m sorry you have to continually endure the assumptions that you care about the United States’ independence. My condolences.

Before we get to the good stuff, a quick note: You may notice the posts here at Children of the 90s becoming a bit more intermittent over the next couple of weeks. Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere. Well, actually the previous statement is completely false: I am going somewhere, though the move will take place in the real physical world instead of the virtual one. I’m in the midst of a housing to move to parts as of yet unknown and am thus fully consumed by the arduous task of hauling furniture and packing up boxes.

I’ve never been much for manual labor, so the inevitable strain on my delicate self is taking up valuable blogging time. For the next few weeks, I appreciate your understanding of our temporary on-again, off-again relationship. Believe you, it’s not you, it’s me. And my incredibly overstuffed apartment.

For now, though, let’s resume our stroll down memory lane into the world of 80s and 90s arts and crafts. Believe me, I would rather be doing any of these things--no matter how ultimately tedious--than packing up a few years worth of accumulated stuff. If I had a velvet poster to color in or a spin-art wheel to operate, you’d bet my progress would be slowed significantly. Not to mention my belongings would be far more paint-splattered, though be fair it would be in an artfully random pattern.

Based on your much-appreciated write-in suggestions, here are a few more of the vaguely arts and crafts-related activities that held our attention as children. There’s still a part 3 likely coming your way, so feel free to add additional suggestions to the comments section or by email at childrenofthe90s@gmail.com.

Scratch Art

For those of us lucky enough to have parents willing to spring $4.99 or so for a packet of pre-made scratch sheets, we enjoyed the hassle free scraping of surprisingly colorful designs from a black background. Others among us didn’t fare quite as well, opting to create our own scratch boards from, well, scratch.

Doing so involved the arduous task of filling a full page with random colored patches and using an entire black Crayola crayon to do you color-cover bidding. Your hand and arm would be incredibly exhausted from the whole ordeal, but at least you were able to reap the reward of some sweet vibrant etching.

Velvet Coloring Posters

I passed one of these at CVS the other day and found myself fighting the urge to purchase it and customize my very own velvet portrait of a unicorn galloping whimsically across a full arch rainbow. Despite my knowledge as a grownup that these posters are extremely tacky, there’s something so tempting about embarking on an endless and time-consuming velvet poster coloring project. Plus they’re velvet. Velvet! That stuff comes across as pretty classy to a seven-year old.

Ironable Perler Beads

We spent many, many hours in my house tediously placing plastic beads a millimeter in diameter each onto flat bumpy molds. Whoever thought these up was either a genius or incredibly sadistic, depending on your views on occupying a child with a mindless task for multiple hours at a time.

The molds came in different shapes and could produce different designs using the multicolored beads. Simply cover, iron, and ta-da! A piece of useless junk. But hey, it was your piece of useless junk. There’s a difference.

Spin Art

Just in case you were looking for a way to make painting messier and more airborne, you’re in luck: someone else has already come up with it and mass-marketed it. There actually used to be a professional Spin-Art center at our local mall, but I’m guessing the availability of allegedly easy-to-use at-home kits put them out of business.

The process was simple but undeniably attractive to mess-hungry children. You put a piece of paper on the spinner, activated the motion, and squirted various paint colors in its general vicinity as it spun. It was like a maxed-out version of the Spirograph: no skill required, guaranteed to create interesting artful symmetry.

Friendship Bracelets

I recently caught an episode of How It’s Made featuring the hammock-making process that led me to believe I could someday take on a lucrative career as a hammock craftswoman. The reason? The countless hours I spent weaving embroidery floss into masterfully crafted bracelets and anklets. How else can we children of the 90s put to use our skill at creating patterns like tornado, chevron, and candy stripe?

If you have a solution, feel free to let me know--I’m actually in the market for a new career. I don’t have Friendship Bracelet Making as its own category on my resume, but I’m willing to work it in for the right professional macrame post. Really, let me know.

Available link for download

7th Media Arts Fortune Cookie Typography Poster

We will learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator and design posters. You will get a fortune cookie, and you must create an interesting, dynamic, eye-catching design. Use what you learn about composition, fonts and typography.

Research and Planning

What is Typography? Presentation
The History of Typography Video
Go to some of the free font websites and download some fonts you may want to try (in addition to the ones on your computer.
Text effects practice. Tutorial video1. Hand in you practice page. Letter drawing practice. Hand in.

Design

Select a random cookie. What you get is what you get!
Sketch your design. It could be a drawing or interesting type or a combination of both.

Look at these websites for some inspiration:

Student Examples
100 Poster Designs
Cool Posters
Typographic Posters
50 More typographic posters
LINK 1 LINK 2 LINK 3 LINK 4

Follow the directions on your worksheet.

Extra time activities
thetypefight.com
Shape type
Kern type

What font type are you?

Available link for download

80s and 90s Kids’ Arts and Crafts Part III

Welcome to the final installment of 80s and 90s Kids’ Arts and Crafts. For parts I and II, check here and here. Thanks again to everyone for your understanding on the intermittent posting over the next few weeks or so during my much-dreaded moving time. A psychology class once taught me that intermittent reinforcement is the most effective variety, so maybe my readership will consequently explode. All this time, I’ve been ringing my little Pavlovian nostalgia bell and bringing you to salivate for post reinforcement daily, when apparently you could have been twice as drooly had I only fed you memories a few times a week. Who knew?

This batch of crafts was especially contingent on reader suggestions, so thank you to everyone who contributed their misty water-and/or-crayon-colored memories of complicated kits and toys our parents used to shut us up for an hour or two. We may not have been creating great masterpieces, but they were at least enough to inspire temporary pride for minimal effort--the preferred combination for children with creative energy but little hopes of a professional future in the fine arts.

Lite Brite

I hadn’t previously considered this to be much of a craft, but after so many write-ins, it was clear it fits the bill. After all, if Magnadoodle and Etch-a-Sketch made the cut, there’s no reason to exclude the Lite-Brite on account of its transient nature. They weren’t lasting works of art, but they were sparkly ones.

The television commercials always showed children just like us creating elaborate patterns with the tiny bulbs, leading us to believe they held great artistic potential. When we got our very own Lite-Brite, however, it became clear most of them were working from the pre-made pattern punch-out sheets.

In case you haven’t yet gotten over the thrill of tediously placing tiny bulbs in pre-cut sockets, Hasbro online has a Lite Brite Simulator. Amazing, right? It’s just as painstakingly laborious as I remember, only in this version you have the option to print your works of virtual art. If you’ll please excuse me, I’m off to spend three hours clicking faux-lit dots into simulated slots.

Fantastic Flowers

As someone who owned this toy, allow me to attest to the fact it was exactly as fun as the commercial suggests. Using little-to-no artistic effort, you could punch out perfectly formed flowers, affix them to premade stems, and voila! Art. The paper it came with was scented, so your result were flowers that smelled like, well, scented paper. Pretty impressive nonetheless.

Craft Loops

In retrospect, these seem like a suspiciously-motivated ploy by parents to set up little potholder sweatshop operations in their very own homes. “Oh, here you go, Susie. Just take these loops and this little loom and weave Mommy some pot-holders. Unless you want to burn your fragile little hands on the tuna casserole dish next time. I know how you hated the blistering. So, you know, it’s pretty important you craft an 8 by 10 square from these little circles."

Bedazzlers

If this was still available through a simple TV offer in three easy payments of $9.99, you can bet I’d be dialing that 800-number and reciting my check or money order information. That commercial is incredibly convincing. Blouses! Belts! Boots! Denim jackets! If only I could find that denim baseball cap I bedazzled in my youth, my life could be complete. And sparkly!

This device was relatively simple to use, meaning that in the hands of the wrong person it could lead to some very dangerous non-industry regulated rhinestoning. While a mass-producing manufacturer of clothing realizes that 200 rhinestones on a single collar is a bit much, a bedazzler-crazed regular Josephina may think it’s a grand idea. Heavy, but grand. And, you know. Sparkly.

Shrinky Dinks

You cut ‘em, you bake ‘em, they shrink. Exciting, no?

Lanyards

Any of us who ever went to summer camp are more than familiar with lanyard craftsmanship. Literally the poor man’s friendship bracelet, these useless neon-colored heaps of flexible plastic served as keychains and nametag necklace holders.

We would take great pride in crafting a lanyard for a family member and then wonder why their grateful reaction seemed so strained. As adults, it’s clear to us now that it was because they knew that had to wear around this ugly piece of junk for at least a few weeks until we forgot we’d woven the eyesore.

Stained Glass/Suncatcher Kits

These things always seemed much cooler while still in their original packaging. The sample shown on the package was impeccable: a beautiful, uniformly sun-catching colored glass with excellent use of color. Our own work, however, was usually not quite so dazzling. It may have caught the sun, sure, but it blinded us with streaky, watered-down colored patches overflowing and bleeding into other areas on the suncatcher.

Available link for download

8th Media Arts Klimt inspired Portraits

1. Research: Artful Writing Activity: "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt
audio for "Perceive: artful writing"

2. Read about Gustav Klimt and answer the questions on your worksheet.

3. Klimt Video (optional: Art Nouveau presentation)

4. Start your design. Watch the demonstrations and follow the directions on your worksheet. Video: How to use patterns in Photoshop

Download Photoshop Patterns

5. Look at some past student work.

*If you have extra time, explore iKlimt or Color a Pattern

Available link for download

6th Media Arts How to Movie

1. Research. What could you make instructions for? Could be funny, could be serious, must be simple.
Video: "The rise of web comics" PBS Offbook
2. "How to" cartoon movie examples
more comic movies
3. Write and storyboard your story
4. Design your frame in Adobe Illustrator. Save a copy of each as a jpeg
5. Import into iMovie
6. Add a title, credits, captions, music, sound effects. etc.
7. Export and hand in!

Extra time?
Explore some digital comics:
Homestuck
Daisy Owl
Rice Boy
Dinosaur

Make more comics:
Comic Creator
Chigger
Comic Master

Available link for download

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

7th Media Arts Typography drawing

Monday, March 27, 2017

7th Media Arts You are what you Eat!

Sunday, March 26, 2017

8th Media Arts Monogram designs

Thursday, March 23, 2017

6th Media Arts Video Haiku

8th Media Arts Annie Jr Poster Design

Sunday, March 19, 2017

8th Digital ARts Yearbook

Monday, March 13, 2017

7th Media Arts Animation and Cartoons introduction

CARTOON Yourself:

8th Media Arts Type Motion Graphic

Thursday, March 9, 2017

6th Media Arts Mandala Designs

Monday, March 6, 2017

7th Digital Arts Schoolhouse Rock Musical posters

6th Digital Arts Halloween Surreal Self Portraits

Sunday, March 5, 2017

6th Media Arts Legendary Creatures

Directions

Friday, March 3, 2017

6th Media Arts Crazy School lunch

You will be using Adobe Photoshop to create a "Super Crazy School Lunch"

Sunday, February 26, 2017

8th Media Arts Monogram Logo Designs

Saturday, February 25, 2017

6th Media Arts Sketch Up Sculpture

Design:

Extra Time games:

80s and 90s Kids Arts and Crafts Part II

7th Media Arts Fortune Cookie Typography Poster

Research and Planning

Design

Look at these websites for some inspiration:

Follow the directions on your worksheet.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

80s and 90s Kids’ Arts and Crafts Part III

8th Media Arts Klimt inspired Portraits

6th Media Arts How to Movie