Virginia High School Art Department

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Please download and open the PDF file below. Recolor Painting Tutorial (PDF)

For you next assignment you will create the artwork for a music album.  Spend some time looking at these examples. (click here to view) the wikipedia definition of album art (click here to view) Smash Magazine’s ‘35 Beautiful Music Album Covers’ (click here to view) the Guardian UK’s most beautiful album covers of 2004

1)    How many months do you have completed? 2)    In a few sentences, describe your calendar layout.  Address the colors you have used, the style or theme used, images added this far. 3)    What do you plan to use for your main images?

Calendar: a tabular register of days according to a system usually covering one year and referring the days of each month to the days of the week. This project will consist of three parts.  Part 1 is described below. 1) Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, special days, etc. This is your calendar.  You need to decide what [...]

Hard-edge: a term coined in 1959.  Hard-edge is used to describe a style of painting that uses straight geometric lines, rich solid color fields, a neat and tidy surface, and an arrangement of forms using balance. This project will consist of four parts (described below) 1) Research on hard-edge painting~ 10 points -Your research should [...]

Please download the attachment below.  Open the document in Microsoft Word and complete the statements.  When you are done, quietly meet with neighbors to discuss your answers.  This worksheet should be used to help generate ideas for you photo essay.  When you have ideas please meet with me indiviually to discuss them. (click here to [...]

View the photo essays at Time Magazine, www.time.com/time/photoessays.  Create a comment to this post addressing one of the photo essays you viewed.  Your comment should address the points listed below. -Name of photo essay (include hyperlink to it). -Brief description of essay. -Brief description of some ‘strong’ photos included in the essay. -What thoughts come [...]

Photo essay (click here to view) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_essay (click here to view) http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/5-photo-essay-tips/ (click here to view) http://photography.about.com/od/photographybyoccasion/a/photoessayintro.htm Examples (click here to view) http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/ (click here to view) http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html (click here to view) http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1850856,00.html (click here to view) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm (click here to view) http://www.thephotoessay.com/ (click here to view) http://media.www.roosevelttorch.com/media/storage/paper817/news/2008/09/29/PhotoEssays/Photo.Essay-3456241.shtml

Photography- Digital Focus 2008-2009 Room- T217 Phone- 218.749.5437 ext. 1218 Email- tnorland@virginia.k12.mn.us Mr. Tony Norland Course description: The primary goal of this course is to investigate the use of photography as a method for artistic self-expression. We will learn the fundamentals of black and white, color, and digital photography, therefore this class will start out [...]