Friday, February 10, 2012

FA 106 Color Theory Week 4 MW

Color Interaction Demo
Week 4 Recap - This week students submitted their solutions to project 1 color match, while beginning project 2 color interaction. Students will mix color through physical, glaze and optical techniques. Due next week.

FA 226 Printmaking Intaglio Week 4

Sancho Copper Plate State #2
Week 4 Recap - This students printed states 1 and 2 for Project 1 Metamorphosis.  Critique for project #1 will be next Wednesday.  As a reminder for students open labs are Wed 5-9pm and Fri 10-3pm.

Friday, February 3, 2012

FA 218 Painting 2 Week 3

Portrait study demonstrations Week 3
Week 3 Recap - This week students should have started the second in the series paintings and hopefully also started planning the portrait project.  Demonstration focused on using the French Academic Palette to make portrait studies. Next week demonstrations will focus on more portraits with a different palette schema and a wet in wet Painting 1 demo.

FA 106 Color Theory TR Week 3

Color Match Presentation Demo
Week 3 Recap -  This week students continued working on the color matches and exercises.  Students will submit project 1 on Tues Feb 7th. Demonstrations this week centered around piecing together the swatch presentation. This included creating a background and adding the color matches.
Introduction to Project 2 Color Interaction also on Tues.

FA 105 2D Design Week 3

Thumbnail Critique
Week 3 Recap - This week we critiqued the 10 Unit thumbnails on Monday and chose which to move to the rough sketch stage.  Wednesday students continued working on enlarging and refining the designs before another critique on Monday Feb 6th.  At the next stage students will choose the best 5 designs to move to the final stage.  Next project will be introduced on Monday as well (Color "Wheel").

FA 106 Color Theory MW Week 3

Color Match Presentation Background
Week 3 Recap - This week we spent both classes continuing to work on project 1 Color Match.  The main demonstrations this week showed (Glazing, Velatura and Scumbling) and (Presentation preparation).
My chosen background theme is Galactic Whale.  The techniques of glazing, velatura and scumbling were used to create the image. Students should have the project completed by Mon Feb 6th.

FA 226 Printmaking Intaglio Week 3

Rough Sketch #1
Week 2 Recap - This week students were asked to complete their sketching for project 1 (Metamorphosis) and received their copper plate to begin scribing their image.  To stay on track with critique dates (Feb 13th) students should have stage/state 1 printed by Mon Feb 6. Students should have two prints of all three stages for critique.