Photo 1: Landscape and Architecture

Graphic Arts, Fall 2009

Process:

1. Find a portrait in a magazine.

2. Lay tracing paper over the portrait.

3. Looking through magazines, newspapers, etc., cut out any letters, numbers, and symbols you can find to re-draw the portrait on the tracing paper.

4. With a new piece of tracing paper, trace your collage and transfer to illustration board.

5. Fill in your transfer with marker.

Purpose:

Typography is the backbone of graphic arts, the idea is for the students to see beyond the idea of numbers and letters as symbols, and to begin to see them as objects and shapes.

Graphic Arts, Fall 2009

For their first assignment, I asked the students to illustrate their name in a personal font. The final images are Sharpie on illustration board.

TEXTURE, Photography 1, Fall 2009

For the students first "real" camera assignment, the students had to focus on texture when taking their pictures. These examples, like all photographs for Photography 1, are Gelatin Silver Prints; the traditional style of processing black and white film.

Pinhole Camera Images from Photography1, Fall 2009

The photography students first assignment was to build their own pinhole camera and take some pictures. Here are some examples.