Emotional Typography

Go to vocabulary.com and choose 20 words from the list.
https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/535865

Go to dafont.com and choose the typeface that best describes the emotion of the words you chose.
http://www.dafont.com/

Creative Characteristics Questionnaire

Please fill out this form. There are no right or wrong answers.

Creative characteristics Questionnaire - Robert Indiana Project

Robert Indiana Project

1. Post Your revised thumbnails in a post
2. Post your Final Project
3. Take the Creative Questionnaire
4. Grade your self according to the Work Ethic and Image Criteria Rubrics above

Artist Research

Choose an artist from the list below:

144 Artists

Find a favorite example of the artists works and post them to your blog.

Include the following info:
Title:

Date

Media 

Size:

Location (museum/collection):

URL/ site name 

Answer the following:

1. What is the subject matter?
   
2. Genres. Is this a still life (group of things)? a portrait (a painting, drawing or sculpture of a person)? or a landscape/seascape/cityscape (picture of the land/water/city)? other (explain)?
   
3. Style/form: Is this artwork realistic (as real as possible)? abstract (distorted reality)?  non-objective (as far from reality as possible)? symbolic? functional? other (explain)?
   
4. Description. Identify the sensory qualities (art elements). Can you identify a color scheme? Why do you think the artist might have chosen the colors she/he did? Do they make sense? What kind of lines did the artist use? How does the texture add to the work? etc.
   
5. Discuss the formal properties - use of design principles.
   
6. Interpretation. What do you think the artists was trying to say? Why do you think he/she chose this subject?
   
7. What feeling does this artwork give you and why?
   
8. What part of the artwork is your favorite and why?
   
9. Judgment: Defend this as a work of art using one of the theories of aesthetics (or combination): Art as Realism - Art for Formal Properties - Art as Expression - Art as Functional.

Critique and Scan Your Thumbnails - Post to Your Blog

Today we will discuss our work in progress. 

I have a reflection Activity to help you think about where you are in the design process so far.

After we had had our discussion I will show you how to scan and upload your thumbnails to your blog.

You will include your self-assessment as well as the feedback you recieved from the class.

Create an Expressive Composition Using the Style of Robert Indiana

Robert Indiana creates simple images full of deep personal meaning for him.
For this project, you use words, numbers, and symbols to create a composition that expresses something about your life.

Today - Step 1 - Make a list of letters, numbers, or simple words that have meaning to you. Birthdays, initials, mulitiple meaning words, or simple symbols such as arrows, stars, triangles are good ideas to use. Use a pencil and paper to create 4 thumbnail sketches of ideas.

Thumbnail Sketches are Shorthand Notes for Artists:Thumbnail sketches are drawing quick, abbreviated drawings. Usually, they are done very rapidly and with no corrections - you can use any medium, though pen or pencil is the most common. Thumbnails sketches are usually very small, often only an inch or two high. 

Here is an example of a page of thumbnail sketches.

Route 66

https://www.google.com/search?q=route+66+signs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLiaycoezOAhWjLcAKHW5UAxQQ_AUICCgB&biw=1024&bih=707&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=route+66+roadside+signs%2C+1930s&imgrc=wJMDypiClH3OpM%3A