In Inkscape, draw an extremely difficult and detailed maze. Start by using the Pencil Tool to draw with. Look under the commands in the top command bar (the ones with the dropdown menus) and click on "View Grid". The grid will make drawing this thing a lot easier. Use the "Copy" and "Paste" and/or "Duplicate" commands (or any other tricks you know or can figure out) to make your life easier.
Using the link below (which provides an excellent high-resolution image of a standard Monopoly game board), redesign the game board so that it becomes "MONOPOLY JLCP SPECIAL EDITION". The theme of your new game will have something to do with Landon... the entire school or the academics, athletics, music, arts, etc. programs.
The color scheme of your game board should in some way reflect our school colors (be as creative as you want with going beyond the traditional orange, black and white). Whatever colors you choose, make sure to change all the colors from the traditional original colors of Monopoly to new ones. My examples below are not meant to be the completed assignment, just a few ideas. Be as creative and/or funny as you can. Use Pixlr, Sumo, Gimp and/or Inkscape to do your work. And have fun with the assignment :-) High-Resolution Monopoly Game Board: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a2776c_2421794722ac4620b5b9cf6e54ca363c~mv2_d_1600_1594_s_2.jpg NOW READ IT ONE MORE TIME!!!
A Swiss Army knife is a tool. It's main function is that of a knife but it also contains things like scissors, screwdrivers, wrenches, tweezers, etc. (see photo below). Using Pixlr, Sumo or Photoshop, create a photo illustration of a "Swiss Army Phone".
Choose a photo of the phone of your choice. Then, coping and pasting from a variety of other photos, add eight (8) gadgets and tools (like a Swiss Army Knife, but make it completely silly if you like) to the phone. The goal is to make it look as real as possible. Remember, the primary grading criteria for these photocompositing assignments is the quality of your copying and pasting and the number of processes you use (the more being the better). My example below is incomplete. I haven't had time to finish it. Sorry... The information below is a method used for evaluation of artwork. It is, by far, the most commonly used "formula" for writing a formal art critique. It is the method we will use in class and that which is found on the course's EOC.
FELDMAN METHOD OF ART CRITICISM Edmund Feldman, Professor of Art at the University of Georgia, developed an easy four-step method for evaluating a work of art. 1. DESCRIPTION What can be seen in the artwork? 2. ANALYSIS What relationships exist with what is seen? 3. INTERPRETATION What is the content or meaning, based on steps 1 and 2? 4. JUDGEMENT or What is your evaluation of the work, based on steps1, 2, 3? EVALUATION By following the Feldman Method the critical process is not passive, but active and exploratory. Notice that the process moves from strictly objective statements in step 1 to a subjective response in step 4 (or from specific to general). Descriptive words about an artwork are like pointers; they draw attention to something worth seeing - so remember that the words that you use must be NEUTRAL. Do not use terms that denote value judgments, such as beautiful, disorderly, funny looking, harmonious, etc. Instead, focus on the factual information, such as smooth, bright, round, a lake, a shape, etc. This is important so that you don’t jump to conclusions before going though all the steps. Analysis of relationships such as sizes, shapes, colors, textures, space and volumes, etc., encourages a complete examination of the artwork. It also reveals the decision making process of the artist, who wants the viewer to make certain connections within the artwork. Interpretation is the meaning of the work based on the information in steps 1 and 2. Interpretation is about ideas (not description) or sensation or feelings. Don’t be afraid of revising your interpretation when new facts are discovered (such as the date of the artwork, or the personal history of the artist, etc.) Conversely, don’t be reluctant to make an interpretation from your analysis of only the visual information. Judgment, the final step, is often the first statement that is expressed about an artwork before it has really been examined. Judgment in that case is neither informed nor critical bu |
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