3/22/12 2D Design

Today's Class- Today we opened with some slides of fine art that made use of text in some way- sometimes to provide information, sometimes as a purely visual element in the composition. We also saw slides with examples of WW II era propaganda and early 1960's advertising, noting specifically the style and use of text in the ads. After that, students did two portfolio exercises, one involving text, the other business logos. While that was going on, those students who had completed their woodblock prints had the blocks printed and had the option to try the process for themselves. Above are tonight's impressive set of student woodcut prints.

How to make this up- The specifics of the two exercises can be found here. These are portfolio exercises that must be made up by the end of the semester to receive credit, but we will likely review the results in an upcoming class, so you may want to get to them sooner.

I won't likely bring the printing stuff back to class, but if you bring in your cut block, I'll collect them and just print them in my own studio before the following week.

Homework- Nothing new, but if you still owe a back homework (including the woodcut block), or need to make up tonight's exercises, I suggest doing them this week. After tonight there will be one homework or another every night until the end of the semester.

For next class 3/29/12- We will go back to working with color. Bring your 18" x 24" pad, pencil and eraser, acrylic paints, brushes, palette, palette knife, water container, and also scissors and glue.