First Assignment

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

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

2) Start a blog in Blogger.com and personalize it. Assignments for this class, including sketches for ideas, will be posted to your blog. You will present these to the class when ready.

FIRST ASSIGNMENT--->

BE PREPARED TO WORK ON THIS FOR THE NEXT TWO TO THREE WEEKS

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.

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

Work at combining (remixing) parts taken from these images into one (or more) new images. 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, be brave, 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.