This Week’s Assignment: Silhouette with Shape

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For this week’s assignment, you will explore the theme of silhouette. The principal/element of design we are looking for is shape. The shape that is formed by the silhouette.

There’s a tutorial below that shows you how to get the silhouette effect.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvxtyDR62Vo]

FIVE IMAGES DUE MONDAY, 10/24

Today’s Warm Up: No Monuments While Traveling by Mario Pucic

http://www.studentshow.com/gallery/43911055/No-Monuments-While-Traveling-Spotlight

After viewing the photos contained in the above link  answer the following questions using complete sentences.

Visually what do you notice in these images that are the same in each photo? What is Pucic trying to say about the world with these photos? What theme is consistent throughout the five photos? What ideas does this photo series contain? What ideas do you get for your own work?

Today’s Warm Up: The Exquisite Portrait Work of Maria Kanevskaya

http://www.studentshow.com/kmusiy

http://www.mariakanevskaya.com/#5

After viewing the photos contained in the above link (Try her website, the student show link is there as backup just in case her website is blocked.) answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What words would you use to describe  Kanevskaya’s work? What photographic techniques does she use to create these works? What makes these  photos resonate with you? What ideas do you get for your own work?

Today’s Warm Up: Julian Chen’s Wild

http://www.studentshow.com/gallery/32112121/WILD

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What do these photos have to do with the theme of Wild? How does each photo contribute to that theme? What do all of these photos have to say about being Wild or people in the Wild, or mankind’s existence with nature? Which special effects does Chen use to reinforce that idea. What ideas do you get for your own work? How would you approach the theme of Wild in five photographs?