Westosha Art: March 2014

Monday, March 31, 2014

Empathy Analogs - Your Inner animal Logo?

https://worldwildlife.org/pages/find-your-inner-animal

Would you live in the mountains like a panda?

Are you reclusive like a turtle?

Sleek like a snake?

Answer these questions about your personality and interests and discover your inner animal.

The Challenge: Inner Animal Logo

http://i.imgur.com/F5NA7RK.jpg

Concept:

Creating a symbolic icon that portrays a graphic identity.

Imagination Triggers:

Empathize, Simplify, Signify, Symbolize

Studio Challenge:

Find your inner animal
Take the survey > http://fyia.worldwildlife.org/
Establish your inner animal and create your own personal empathy logo, corporate seal, banner, flag, or icon.

Integrate your initials with abstract shapes
Incorporate images, design and color to portray aspects of your personality
Portray your interests, occupation, hobbies, aspirations, or lifestyle.

Create your empathy logo digitally or with any media.
Share your inner animal, empathy logo and a brief biography with the ADV community

Critique:

Graphic signs are visual simplifications.

They are created to convey complex information in simple, understandable terms.

The process by which ideas, information, feelings, and emotions are reduced to simplified graphic equivalents is called encoding

http://webneel.com/sites/default/files/images/manual/logo-all/25-animal-logo-design.gif

http://inspirationfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Emperor.png

http://inspirationfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Cheetah.png

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/61-animal-logos1.jpg

http://www.magneticstate.com/blogdept/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lion.jpg

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http://aqua-velvet.com/wp-content/2011/07/27_logos2.jpg

Monday, March 17, 2014

Metaphor Diptychs

Challenge:

Metaphor Diptychs:

Concept:

Diptychs (split-screen) can juxtapose portraits or text with metaphoric images.

Studio Activity:

Research a historical or contemporary individual and create a visual metaphor for that individual.
Interview a parent or classmate and create a visual metaphor for that individual.
Use a historically significant poem or passage and create a visual metaphor for it.
Use musical lyrics and create a visual metaphor for it.
In Photoshop, place the subject matter below in four new 5x7 Photoshop documents.

Image and blurb of historical or contemporary individual.
Image and blurb of parent or classmate.
Text of historically significant poem or passage.
Text of musical lyrics.

Create four 5x7 photographs that are metaphors for each subject matter above.
Open a new 8.5x11 Photoshop document and juxtapose the appropriate subject matter next to your metaphor photograph that you made for it.
Print your four metaphor diptychs (In essence a total of eight (8) juxtaposed 5x7 Photoshop documents).

Metaphor Diptych Subject Matter:

Respond to the following questions to determine what and who your subject matter will be.

Diptych 1: Significant Individual

Choose a significant historical or contemporary individual that has inspired or awed you and write their name below.
Find a quotation by or about the significant person you chose and write it below.
What image, object or place comes to mind when you think of this person and the quotation? Write your response and then make a photograph that captures this image.

Diptych 2: Parent, Relative or Friend

Choose a parent, relative, or friend that has inspired or awed you and write their name below.
Write below a quotation, lyric or passage that the parent, relative, or friend chose because it is a favorite of theirs.
What image, object, or place comes to mind when you think of this person and the quotation? Write your response and then make a photograph that captures this image.

Diptych 3: Significant Poem, Speech, or Passage

Choose a historically significant poem, speech, or passage that has inspired or awed you and write it below.
What image, object, or place comes to mind when you think of this? Write your response and then make a photograph that captures this image.

Diptych 4: Musical Lyrics

Choose your current favorite song and write the lyrics below.
What image, object, or place comes to mind when you think of this? Write your response and then make a photograph that captures this image.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Develop Your Personal Metaphor

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032_(The_wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog).jpg

Are you ready to craft a metaphor statement that could be a touchstone for yourself?

Here is how to create your personal leadership metaphor:

Identify a solution or outcome that is desperately needed either in the world or your community. Understanding what has been missing, or the pain you have witnessed is often a good starting point for identifying a solution. It’s more than common that folks can make awareness of pain – a purpose. Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly, has described this awareness of what is missing in the world like a “vacuum” where a real void has been created. Often we are each our own best knower of where the vacuum has been – because we have experienced it. And this void often is a wonderful space to in which to place your solution.
Identify an element in nature that inspires you. An element that has the energies of who you wish yourself to be. Whether it is a rock, fire, water, tree, mountain or any other element in nature. Trust your intuition to choose it.
Identify the qualities within that element that inspires you. This is the fun part. Once you have chosen your nature element. Play with the qualities a little – describe them, write them out. For example a mountain may have expansive perspective, a solid grounding, a passion within waiting to burst… you get the idea.
Identify who it is that will benefit from your solution. Is it all of mankind? Is it children? Is it our leaders? Who in your community would benefit?
Identify what they will then be able to do as a result of consuming or learning of your solution. This is what makes it very meaningful.

Then put it all together… the formula goes like this:

‘I am a _____2_____, Who _______3_________, Who helps _____4_______ to _____1______ so that they may _____5_______.”

Don’t worry about getting it perfect; it will evolve over time.

The idea is to make a connection with the pattern of who you are and what you want to offer the world – and to connect THAT to something bigger in nature and then to bring all that together in service of others.

Creating a personal metaphor statement that reminds you of your own greatness and how you can serve the world can be a way to self-inspire. It doesn't need to be a nature one …. the real key is it is something that inspires you.

In the Comment Section of the post > put your personal metaphor statement

I hope you enjoy creating your own personal metaphor and that you find it as resourceful as I do and as others do. >http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/david-j-pollay/20070702302

Monday, March 10, 2014

Compare & Contrast Image Analysis - ADV Dual Portrait

Do the Image Analysis:
1. Add to the board by double clicking
2. To view board in a new window click here > http://padlet.com/wall/a4n7ydbbi9

Created with Padlet

Image as Metaphor - Indonesia Dorothea Lange

Do the Image Analysis:
1. Enter the Password > Indonesia
2. Double Click and Write a Response
(to view in its own window or on mobile) > http://padlet.com/wall/oflc8l11uv

In the Comment Section respond to at least one of the following prompts.

- What hobbies do you have?
- What items or objects do you collect?
- What events in your life have had a profound effect on you?
- To what things in your life do you feel a special connection?

Created with Padlet

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Westosha Art and Google+ in the Classroom

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Let me know what you think.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Creative Finger Photos

Creative Finger Photos

Concept:

Your fingers can take on human characteristics

Catalysts:

Transfer, Mythologize, Fantasize

Studio Challenges

Make three (3) mages using your fingers as characters

Studio 1:

Find a Movie Still
Re-create it using your fingers as characters

Studio 2:

Pick a story or Myth from English class
Use your fingers to portray a scene

Studio 3:

Conceptualize and create your own finger photo

AP Studio Art - Submitting Your Portfolio

About Digital Submission

The AP Studio Art Exam consists of two components:

Digital images and commentary submitted to AP via the Digital Submission Web application
AP® Studio Art Digital Submission Demo > http://apstudiodemo.collegeboard.org/student
Physical portfolios: the Quality section (five actual artworks) for Drawing and 2-D Design portfolios, assembled and mailed to the AP Program

Note: The 3-D Design portfolio has no physical component and is submitted entirely online.
For more information about the digital submission process, view the Web demo.
For the HELP page about digital submission, click here > http://goo.gl/C0KFFx

Timeline for Students

Before January

Capture digital images of your artworks that adhere to the image recommendations and requirements outlined at the bottom of this page.

January and February

Log in to the Digital Submission Web Application as soon your teacher — or AP Coordinator, if you are home-schooled — provides access information. Check with your teacher or Coordinator if you haven't received this information by early February. (View this demo for more information about accessing the application.)
Make sure that you have selected the correct type of portfolio (i.e., 2-D Design, 3-D Design, or Drawing). Selecting the correct portfolio type is very important, as it affects how the portfolio is scored.
Begin uploading images as soon as possible after accessing the application, so that both you and your teacher can monitor the development of your portfolio. You can always delete, add or rearrange images later.

March and April

Continue to work with your teacher on your portfolio.
Confirm the deadline for you to submit your final digital portfolio to your teacher (or AP Coordinator). If you are submitting a 2-D Design or Drawing portfolio, confirm the date for assembly of the Quality section with your teacher or AP Coordinator.
The AP Coordinator should provide you with information from your AP Student Pack (your AP number and a list of college codes) by sometime in April. You will need this information before you can forward your digital portfolio to your teacher.
Submit your finalized digital portfolio to your teacher or AP Coordinator by his or her established deadline.
After you forward your portfolios to your teacher or AP Coordinator, sign back in to the Web application occasionally to view your portfolio's status and to ensure that your Coordinator forwards your portfolios to the AP Program by 8 p.m. EDT on May 9, 2014.Only Coordinators can take this final step, and only portfolios that have a "Sent to AP" status at the time of this deadline will be received by the AP Program and scored.

May

Your teacher will forward your completed digital portfolio to the AP Coordinator before May 9.
Your AP Coordinator will forward your digital portfolio to the AP Program, using the Web application, by 8 p.m. EDT on May 9.
On or before May 9, your teacher or Coordinator will gather 2-D Design and Drawing students for the assembly of the Quality section (the physical portfolio component).

Technical Requirements and Recommendations

You and your teacher must have access to a digital camera and a computer with an Internet connection in order to submit the digital sections of your portfolio. If you will be accessing the Web application from a computer outside your school, please note the required browsers listed below. You aren't restricted to specific hardware configurations, though you may experience slower response times when using older computer hardware.

Software Requirements

Web Browser (one of the following):

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0
Firefox 3.6
Safari 5.0 or below

Requirements and Recommendations for Digital Images

All images must be submitted in JPEG format (file name extension .jpg) and RGB color mode. We recommend uploading files that are 72 pixels-per-inch (ppi) because a higher resolution does not add clarity when viewing images on a computer screen. We recommend that you keep copies of your original images.

Image size: The image sizes below are recommendations. Your image sizes may be different.

Landscape orientation:

Recommended maximum size: 530 x 780 pixels (7.36 x 10.83 inches)
Recommended minimum size: 480 x 480 pixels (6.67 x 6.67 inches)

Portrait orientation:

Recommended maximum size: 780 x 530 pixels (10.83 x 7.36 inches)
Recommended minimum size: 480 x 480 pixels (6.67 x 6.67 inches)

Maximum file size: 3.0 MB per image. (Your image files will likely be considerably smaller than 3.0 MB.)

Free disk space:

Drawing and 2-D Design Portfolio: Based on the maximum file size of 3.0 MB and a total of 24 digital images per portfolio, you'll need a maximum of 72 MB of free disk space per portfolio.
3-D Design Portfolio: Based on the maximum file size of 3.0 MB and a total of 38 digital images, you'll need a maximum of 114 MB of free disk space.

Getting Started > Student

AP® Studio Art Digital Submission Demo > http://apstudiodemo.collegeboard.org/student

Here you'll learn how to:

Set up your access to the Web application
Upload and arrange images of your artworks
Enter your Concentration statement
Complete your registration information
Send your digital portfolio to your teacher for review

2–D Design and Drawing students: This demo does not provide instructions for the physical assembly of Section I: Quality. You will be working with your teacher and AP Coordinator on this in the spring. More information about the physical portfolio component of 2–D Design and Drawing Portfolios is available in the Studio Art poster, which you should receive from your teacher in the fall.

Before you can access the AP Studio Art Digital Submission Web application, your AP Studio Art teacher will need to pass two pieces of access information on to you:

School Code > 502040
Teacher Key > tzx2601

You should expect to receive this access information from your teacher by early to mid-February. As soon as possible after you receive this information, go to the sign-in page at http://apstudio.ets.org (shown below) and click Set up your access now. Click Student on the following screen to indicate your role. Getting Started

Empathy Analogs - Dual Portrait

http://www.martingallagher.com.au/portraits/images/the-dual-self-portait.jpg

Dual Portrait

Concept:

A double portrait can simultaneously signify two sides of your personality

Catalysts:

Analogize, Transfer, Mythologize, Fantasize, Symbolize

Studio Challenge:

Create a biographical self portrait composed of two portrait images which depict two sides of your personality.
Let one portrait depict the ‘outside you,’ the one people see.
Create the other portrait as another ‘you,’ a secret personality or fantasy role model.
Make the double portrait insightful, therapeutic, humorous or surreal.

Possibilities include:

Juxtapose your portrait with a historical personality or mythological hero.
Make two identical portraits but transform one with shapes or colors that signify a different psychological state.
Research details regarding your horoscope and transfer that information symbolically.
Consider what your ‘animal spirit’ is and visually portray it alongside your face.
Other ideas - photos of a piano or sheet music, your room, a volleyball, your camera, a lone bench in the middle of the park, a rock outcropping, a tree in a pasture, a lego...