The figure week 3

Tuesday:
In the first half of the day we painted over one of our tonal ink drawings from the previous week using acrylic paints brown, white and primary colours. In the second half of the day we continued working on our wire heads from the previous week and I have begun to add facial features.

Wednesday:
In textiles we experimented with felt making using objects to create 3D creations by wrapping the felt around the objects.

In graphics we continued working on our selfportraits experimenting with ideas, evidence can be found here
 http://luketomlinsonl3adgraphicsportraits.blogspot.co.uk/
and in Art History we watched a documentary on Vincent Van Gogh and made notes on him


Friday:
Mark wasn't in so we didn't do lifedrawing and instead with Kim we produced our tile for drypoint printing by scratching into clear plastic over our drawn designs.
In Photography we experimented with creating panoramic images on photoshop and layering our photographs over each other. We then went out to take some more Photographs around town.

The figure week 2

Tuesday:
We worked on our portrait drawings by adding ink over them to create tone.

In 3D we created wire heads based off of our own head shapes.

Wednesday:
In textiles I continued pushing the felt into the materials and created an eye as part of the figure topic.

In graphics we experimented on our portrait scans, evidence can be found here. http://luketomlinsonl3adgraphicsportraits.blogspot.co.uk/
In art history we learnt about The Fauves and their art movement


Friday:
In printmaking we researched drypoint printing and produced some designs working from our self-portrait photocopies.

In the afternoon for photography we took photos around town to learn to use the cameras and then put the images onto the computers.

Back to college, The Figure week 1

After a long, weird half term I'm back at college and this time we're working on the figure.
Here's what I got up to last week.

Tuesday:
In the morning in visual studies we practiced doing self portraits using mirrors and trying to work with proportions using a measuring stick. We were then told to research some artists who work in portraits and to experiment with various media on photocopies of our self portraits.

Then in the afternoon we worked with welding metal and began trying to create facial features out of wire.

Wednesday:
In textiles in the morning, we learnt how to make felt using wool and I created a sheet of patterned felt. Then I moved to the other room to have a go at pushing the felt into material.

In graphics we started a new qualification project in which we are going to design the cover to our autobiographies, and we started this week by researching portrait artists and posted the research on a new blog, found here http://luketomlinsonl3adgraphicsportraits.blogspot.co.uk/

Then in Art History we created informative posters about the creative industry


Friday:
To ease us into life drawing we produced a facial portrait of our life model and likewise with the self portraits had to work with measuring sticks to keep the figure in proportion, something I found difficult and I need to practice more.

In the afternoon for Photography we have begun work on our Townscape project and started by researching Townscape artists and Double Exposure artists, then we had a go at creating Double Exposure images ourselves in Photoshop using layers.

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.