Finishing up first term

Tuesday we just finished up any work and got them stuck in our sketch books so I got my still life research done and mounted my A3 photography pics.
Wednesday I finished off my embroidery designs in textiles and begun another, in graphics we looked at the clone tool and the heal tool and also recapped on what we previously learnt about filters and experimented with image adjustments like scale and skew.

In art history we arranged our folders and did some paperwork.

7th post (technically 8th)

Tuesday:
Today was used as a catchup day where I got my second painting of the still life set-up finished and spent the remainder of the day finalising the details on my Art History presentation.

Wednesday:
I finished my embroidery designs from the previous weeks and got a new design started. In Graphics we created my previous blog post explaining how we used Photoshop the past weeks. Finally for Art History we did our presentations, mine being on the film industry.

Friday:
We did paperwork for the first half of the day about career paths, then for the afternoon we mounted our lino prints and printed off 2 of my depth of filed photographs.

Photoshop

In testing out Photoshop, we scanned in our pencil drawings from our sketch books using the Image capture software.

 We changed the image size from 21.56cm-29.68cm to 26.99cm-18.76cm keeping the resolution at 150DPI to in order to use up less memory. WE should use a resolution of 72DPI for small images for blog use and 300DPI for final images to print.

We cropped the image to the designated area using the crop tool then resized the image in the image size field keeping the width and height in constrained proportions.

We used the Rectangle select, Elliptical, and magic wand select tool to select areas of our images.

Then added new layers

and used the paint bucket tool

and the hue/saturation tool to change the colors of the image.

We then added filters and effects to the image to make them look more dynamic.

We were then showed how to take screenshots on the Macs which is cmd shift 3 to take a full screenshot and cmd shift 4 to select a partial area for screenshots.

6th post

Tuesday:
In the morning I started a new painting of the still life set up, getting the basic shapes formed and now just the detail needs adding in and in the afternoon after a tutorial session on what we should have in our sketch books, I finished off any incomplete work.

Wednesday:
In textiles I created a new design on the sewing machine and I have now gotten used to drawing on them.
For graphics we recapped about layers and then experimented in adding filters and changing the colours in various ways, such as the hue. We also learnt how to create screen captures on the macs.
Then in Art History we worked on a presentation about the film industry to be presented next lesson.

Friday:
We used the press to print our lino designs onto various backgrounds experimenting with dry paper, wet paper and turpentine. For the afternoon we were in photography were for the first half of the lesson we learnt to use Adobe bridge to make contact sheets and for the second half we learnt about the cameras and how to control the aperture and focus.

5th post

Tuesday:
For the the first half of the day, we started to produce a painting of the still life set up, using only red, yellow, blue, brown and white paint so that we could experiment in mixing colours and adding water to the paint.

 In the afternoon we created plaster relief sculptures using objects pressed into clay and then set in Plaster of Paris.

Wednesday:
We used the sewing machines in textiles to get used to how they work and techniques to use with them. When we were comfortable in using the machines, we moved on to drawing with the thread.
In the afternoon we first learnt the basics of Photoshop in graphics such as adding new layers, selecting areas and filling areas with colour and for art history we began looking at specific careers using art.


Friday:
 We continued working on our painting from Tuesday looking to add more detail.

Then in the afternoon we worked with the cameras for photography looking at depth of field which is to define how much focus is wanted on the background of an object