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07/02/11 Finishing off our sketchbooks

Tuesday

We got our texture squares and put ink on them and then printed them onto paper to get different looking patterns

Thursday

We finished off our sketchbooks putting work we have done by sticking pictures in and drawing and just organising ourselfs

13/12/10 Organizing and finishing

Monday- We organised our blogs andwe also did some research for cath’s lesson on tuesday’s
In functional skills –  we just did some testing for exams

Tuesday- we finished off our circus focused blow up patterns by painting or colouring them with pastels

Thursday- we carried on with what we did on tuesday.

6/12/10 Finishing off

Monday- we finished off our prezis and we  also organised our blogs, in the afternoon we went out of college taking pictures of things what look like letters but arent a letter intentionally

Tuesday- we were carrying on with selsction parts of our mind maps and enlarging them and colouring them in with colours what describe the circus best

Tuesday afternoon- in howards lesson we finished off making our pots by tweeking them to makethem smooth

Thursday- We went into the library and looked at different video’s of  Cirque Du Solei

October 4th-8th

Monday:

 On monday afternoon we went outside off college and we had to walk around stockport and take pictures of eithers signs or shop names and the task was to get as many pictures so we could edit them in Illustrator and get 1 of each letter of the alphabet.  The cameras we used were a Cannon. This session of using the camera’s was fun because we just had fun taking pictures of random signs and names.

Example of these pictures from Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/altfelix11/5049219826/in/pool-foundtype

Tuesday:

On tuesday morning we were in the printing room with sophie and we all made our own Mixed Media art piece and mine was “Ok” and i made mine have its own question saying “What happens if the rainforest dissapears”.

Afternoon: We went with howard and continued with our ceramics brainstorm of ideas with ceramic pieces involving different parts of insects.

Thursday:
We were in the Library for a hour carrying on with our research and such.
10:00-ish  we went into howards room to carry on with our ceramics drawings like we did on thursday afternoon.

Last week

Monday  27/09/10

Afternoon:   In the afternoon we used Photoshop and illustrator both of which are made by Adobe illustrator is mainly used for drawing to sharpen them we went into file and place to insert a logo of a club we liked to use Live trace so the drawing will not get pixelated when we stretch it. When we did that the picture changed from a Jpeg to a Vector which is just a more mathematical look at the picture. After which we can stretch the image which will not pixelate.

Photoshop:  Photoshop is to make picture be modivied such as on pictures of people you can warp certain areas of the picture to make it look more funny or more clean and sharp. In photoshop we imported the pictures from illustrator to make our poster and on photoshop we added text and different effects towards the poster to make it look more suffisticated. We did this by going to file and place and inserted our poster and started editing such as using the tool move and using the layout section in our panels.

Tuesday 28/09/10

Morning: We manipulated different types of ceramics to cross them with parts of animal parts  Eg: cricket legs holding a pot upwards. We did this all day we mainly were doing this as a brainstorm to get some ideas to actually make the piece of ceramics.

Thursday 30/09/10

Morning: We went into the library  as usual and we went onto the laptops to either look up 5 different Multi media artists or we were printing off our essays we were given when we went to the liverpool tate. We looked for artists on google and we had to write about the artist himself/ herself which is going to be used this week on either tuesday or thursday with Sophie.

20th-24th September what we did

Monday 20th September : Photography

  • Downloaded photographs from moodle – taken last week of boiler parts
  • Used photoshop to flip horizontal and vertical
    sharpen
  • change opacity
  • Use layers+ toggle layers on and off
  • crop
  • SaveAS.jpg joint  photographic experts groups
  • ctrl+L shortcut for changing levels.
  •  Set default workspace –standard palette locations
  • Use history palette to undo processes
  • actions-used navigator palette to zoom also use shortcut= ctrl++ or [Spacebar] shortcut for moving around the image.Afternoon
  • Created a flickr account
  • Uploaded designs  to flickr + sent to the group
  • Downloaded from moodle
  • Opened in photoshop
  • Began editingTuesday  21st September: 2d design
  • Ink /heavy weight paper /graphite/sticks+brush’s/crayons/ Indian ink powder
  • Ink blots
  • Made  sketches of crayons + different ways of merging crayons in books
  • Afternoon
  • Used clay to make plant pots
  • Used sculpting knifes and paddles to shape the clay
  • Success – mine transformed into a basketThursday 23rd September :  Essay  writing up

We went into the library and typed up our essay about the Liverpool tate museum we had to list 3 artists and 1 of each artists piece of work.