Project: Surrealist Landscape

For this assignment the challenge is to create a surreal landscape by juxtaposing harvested photographs. You should use the tools and techniques that you used in your composite exercises ( i.e. - masking layers, hue/saturation adjustment, drop shadows, lasso, quick selection, magic wand, etc ). The image should attempt to tell a story and that story can be expressed through your title.

Here are a few examples...

Critique: Surrealism

Use the images below to fill in the worksheet.

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My Absence

Sorry that I am not there. My son woke up looking like he had pinkeye. Being the nice father that I am I stayed home with him.
Since I am out, I will have you do a homework assignment for our first project.

Homework: Surrealism

Find 20 facts. Please hand write your facts and be sure to site your source to avoid losing points. Here is the fact break down...

5 facts about Surrealism
5 facts about Salvador Dali
5 Facts about Rene Magritte
5 facts about Max Ernst

See you tomorrow.

Exercise: Composites

For our first exercises we will be using the photos you harvested last week to create some composite image. A composite image is an image that is created by combining two or more photos together. A successful composite is seamless and believable as a single picture.

There are a few terms that are important to understand for these exercises and future ones as well.

Layer

Opacity

Masking Layer

Also there are tools that are very important too.

Eraser

Paintbrush

Foreground/Background Color

Below you will find 6 composites that you will create your own version of.

Exercise: Composite 1: Face Replace

Challenge: Take the face from one person and cover the face of another person.

Exercise: Composite 2: Vehicle Skin

Challenge: Use an animal hide to add a skin/paint job to a vehicle.

Exercise: Composite 3: This Land is My Land

Challenge: Add a full body portrait to a landscape and create a drop shadow to enhance the illusion.

Exercise: Composite 4: Layered Landscape

Challenge: Use 3 different landscape photographs to edit together to create a single landscape image. 1 photo should be used for the background, 1 for the middle ground and 1 for the foreground.

Exercise: Composite 5: Designer T

Challenge: Add an image to a t-shirt and be sure it looks like it has been screen printed on.

Exercise: Composite 6: Group Crasher

Challenge: Take a group shot and add an extra person to the picture. Additional person should blend in with original photo.

Homework: Harvest

We will be collecting images to use for our first Exercises. Please "harvest" the following images...

5 Head shots - a person shoulders and up
5 Full body shots - head-to-toe photo of a person
5 Articles of clothing - sneakers, t-shirts, etc
5 Group shots - at least 2 rows of people
5 Vehicles - complete photo of car, boat, plane
5 Landscapes - photo of an environment
5 Animals - head-to-toe photo showing the complete animal

All images should be in color and an actual photograph. Images should be saved in your "Harvest" folder that you created in class, within the folder on the desktop.

Say "Hello"

For your first comment assignment I work like you to simply leave a comment, in which you say "Hello."

A few key points to remember...

To comment, you must use the "Name/URL" login, but you should not fill in a URL.

Always make sure that you use your first name and last initial. Anonymous comments will be deleted.

Simply doing what I say will only get you a "B." Creativity will always boost your grade!

Welcome!

Welcome to the web log developed for digital arts period 4.

This blog is going to be used to look at digital art examples and to comment on them. Your comments on this site will count towards your comment grade. Comments can be submitted via this blog or in written format during class. Comments can be simple ("I like it," "I don't like it," etc.) but I may reply to your comment for further feedback ("What do you like about it?" "What would you change?" etc).

You will also be able to share digital art examples you find on the internet with the class. Be respectful and considerate, any inappropriate use of this blog will result in a zero for your comment grade for the semester and any applicable discipline code consequences.

Welcome again and enjoy!