Amazing!

Drawing and Painting students created some beautiful work this year!  Congratulations!

 

Dreamweaver

Designing for the Web

Over the years Web Design has gone through many changes.
The web design software we will be using lets designers (like us)  create websites by writing code for us, however you still need to know quite a few things about the language(s) the program uses.  I will show you some simple, ways to design a website using Dreamweaver and you will show me how to create a website using the most current methods.  First start by going to Adobe.com for HELP! 

Answer the following questions:

• What is a “div tag” and how do you create them in Dreamweaver?  (You need to be able to create a web page using div tags so make sure you have step by step directions.  They can be copy and pasted into this document.  I suggest you have a few resources for this.) 

• What is CSS and how does it apply to div tags?

• How do you create CSS in  Dreamweaver?

• What are the benefits of using div tags and CSS instead of tables? 

• List 3 resources (besides adobe.com) that were utilized to answer questions.      

 

Drawing and Painting Final Exam Project

Drawing and Painting

Mixed-Media

 Demonstrate your drawing & painting skills by creating small drawings and paintings of the same object using a variety of mediums. A realistic pencil and watercolor rendering are required.    The remaining two could be acrylic, pastel or mixed-media (it doesn’t have to be realistic). One of these two has to be a creative and unique rendering.   The object could be a seashell, apple, tool of some sort, vase, bowl…any object. You are required to show the 5 elements of shading in the works that are realistic and in the less realistic you should aspire to be creative and original.  

To see more guidelines for you final exam project view the Drawing and Painting Document

colored pencil

pencil

watercolor

acrylic painting

Web Design Final Project 2013

Designing for the Web

As we approach the final month of class you will be learning the basics of Dreamweaver Cs5.5.  You will use your knowledge of Flash and Photoshop to help you make a creative website.  Now that we have critiqued many websites we know what elements you need to create a successful website. Apply what you have learned to your own site. Answer the questions about your concept in the Final Exam Project Document.

FINAL EXAM PROJECT

View Previous Student Work at BHS Art Web

"Retro Reviws" 2010

"Running" 2010

Sgraffito

Ceramics

Sgraffito (in Italian "to scratch") is a decorating pottery technique created by applying layers of under glazes, colored slips, or engobe to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layers to create contrasting images, patterns, and texture to reveal the clay color underneath.  Below are some examples of the technique. Follow this link to learn more about Sgraffito .

You will be using this technique on one of  your final exam pieces.

Images originally published at Lakeside Pottery, Stamford Ct. 

Home Page Critique

Designing for the Web

As we begin designing our home page for our website we need to understand what makes the home or index page successful?  The home page is the first page a viewer sees so it needs to function properly and be appealing. We will view several websites in class and discuss what elements are making it work or not.  You will then find two websites that you will critique.  One should be an example of a poorly designed site and the other a successful one.  Use the, "Elements of a Successful Website" document as you critique the websites.  View the "Website Critique" document for your complete assignment.

Perspective and Perception

Intro to Drawing and Painting

Your next artistic challenge will be to create an acrylic painting that shows your knowledge of perspective. Create the illusion of space by portraying objects and architecture the correct size and proportion.  Choose an architectural or atmospheric space that is intriguing to you and then make a painting that represents that space in your personal way.  You may simplify the details to create an abstract painting or you can try for a realistic rendering. 

View the following Document for more information on this lesson:

Perspective Lesson

The paintings below make an impact by including perspective as a key component to design. 

SKY LAND IMAGINATION

Advanced Drawing and Painting

"Each of these luminous and mysterious images of trees against sky, field, and river evoke a subtle variation of light and atmosphere. The arrangement of the trees - whether standing in solitude or in pairs or in large groupings seem at once inevitable and yet surprising, formal yet accidental. All of these paintings are comprised from memory, imagination and thumbnail sketches from my beautiful basement studio in my home in Connecticut. I work on wood board, paper and canvas using several layers of gesso before priming the surface with cadmium red base, a quick sketch using charcoal is used to lay out the design then the paint is applied. I work in layers using thinned down oil color, building on these layers with glazing techniques the colors are adjusted and brought up to completion before final coats of varnish are applied. Light has come to play an important part, and when I look back over this body of work, I feel it speaks about spiritual places, places that contain a quiet inner light, radiating an ethereal whisper, the places we see every day."

- William McCarthy

See more works by William McCarthy 

Your next assignment is to create an acrylic landscape that experiments with the layering of color to create a luminous atmosphere.   William McCarthy and many artist take photographs and draw thumbnails sketches of landscapes that have an appealing composition or beautiful lighting.  They then go back to the studio and create a landscape that may or may not be representational.  Some artists would prefer only to paint outside looking at the natural world and how the sun affects it, there are many ways to create a landscape or seascape. 
For this project focus on:

• ·         Creating a composition that has atleast 60 percent sky so the horizon line falls below the center of your piece.  This will allow you to focus on creating an interesting sky and you can layer colors in larger areas.

• ·         Choose a color scheme that includes tints with accents of other more intense colors.

• ·         Search for a landscape or seascape that inspires you, but that you aren’t “copying”.  You can use a photograph you or someone you know took.   You wont be duplicating them, but observing the colors, shapes, texture of the sky.  You can also combine images from a variety of photographs to create the one you like.  

• ·         Abstract if you like.  This painting could be a very abstract one with barely any details if you choose, but you need to have a beginning reference.  

Vocabulary List & Assignment