april 15-19

Remember:

Electronic devices=classwork

No food and beverages during instructional time

SSA_one request, then referral

Today
Work on line/tracing/painting assignments. Draw outlines and paint inside selections.

What I want you to know:
1. How to use the brush tool to trace over a photo
2. How to "paint" with the brush tool
3. How to use line and color to create emphasis


Line: A line is a path left by a moving point. A continuous mark on a surface.

Emphasis: a principle of design by which the artist or designer may use opposing sizes or shapes, contrasting colors, or other means to place greater attention on certain areas or objects in a work of art. Emphasis is achieved by dominance and subordination, bright against dull, light on dark, large among small, etc.

Questions:
1. What category of brushes are we using in this assignment?
2. What is the suggested size for the brush you use for tracing?
3. What is the suggested size for the brush you use for painting?
4. How do you control the flow of the airbrush when painting?
5. How can line and color create emphasis?


links:

Edmodo: Photoshop group
 tracing_over_photo_with_brush_tool.mp4

airbrush_and_selections_with_magic_wand_tool.mp4

http://stevecampbellhillwood.blogspot.com/2011/09/art-vocabulary.html

http://www.slideshare.net/kpikuet/elements-and-principles-of-art-presentation

The Decline of Printing in the Digital Age

Digital Arts and Design
The Decline of Printing

What I want you to know or do:
Standards:
2.3 Assess situations in the visual art, design, printing, and photography industry and develop a presentation offering solutions or improvements.
3.1 Understand clear thesis development and support it by using analogies, quotations, and facts
3.2 Write with consistent use of standard grammatical forms.
5.1 Analyze and understand the role of visual arts and design in business, industry, and the community.
7.2 Evaluate technological advances within the visual arts and design industry.
10.2 Locate, select and manage reference materials and information. Cross reference information for accuracy.
10.5 Demonstrate an understanding of technology’s impact on individuals and society.
11.1 Access and process technical information from a variety of sources to support life-long creative and critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and communications.

Introduction
It is 2013. The printing industry has been in decline for some time. Newspapers and magazines across the country are going out of business. Why is this happening? If you worked in the printing industry, how could you increase the amount of printing your company does?

Assignment:

Answer the following:

1. Describe how technological advances over the past 20 years have contributed to the decline in printing. 3-4 complete sentences.

http://d3a577syzx0or3.cloudfront.net/docs/Disrupting-the-Future-reva.pdf

Go to pages 14 and 15.

2. List 5 products that are printed today.

3. Describe the role of visual arts and design in business, industry and the community. 3-4 complete sentences.

http://artstuff.net.au/?p=921

http://www.arteducators.org/learning/learning-in-a-visual-age/NAEA_LVA_09.pdf

4. Propose a solution that would increase the amount of printing business today. 1-5 complete sentences.

5. Make a prediction about the future status of printing in 10 years. 1-5 complete sentences.


other sources you could use:

http://www.slideshare.net/Timmilne/future-of-print-in-a-digital-age-artomatic

http://www.printing.org/

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/foreducators/f/functions.htmSupporting_arts_and_culture/RAND_Visual_Arts_0805_full.pdf

Questions:
1. What is the most important technology in your life?
2. How has it changed the way people live over the past 5 years?
3. Can it play a part in design and business? How?

If you love to write, here is a sample report:

The Decline of Printing

Steve Campbell Block 7B

When Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, "the population of Europe was approximately 50 million people. The literacy rate at that time has been estimated at 1%—or 500,000 people capable of reading what was printed. It took about 100 years to get the literacy rate to 50%. By then, the population was about 70 million—which means it took 100 years for the number of people who could read what was printed to hit 35 million. It took more than 100 years for the number of users of print to reach 50 million." 1
Today, however, the printing industry is in decline. Newspapers and magazines that once had circulations in the millions have gone bankrupt. Have technological advances caused this? The answer is yes. The computer, the internet, hand held devices like smart phones, and other cutting edge digital technologies have dramatically impacted printing. Consider this:
"• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users.
• It took television 13 years to reach 50 million users.
• It took the Internet 4 years to reach 50 million users.
• It took the iPod 3 years to reach 50 million users.
But then:
• Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months.
• iPhone application downloads hit 1 billion in 9 months.
• The number of Ashton Kutcher’s1 and Ellen DeGeneres’2
Twitter followers exceeds the entire population of Ireland,
Norway, and Panama." 1
Commercial printing today, although it has declined, remains an important industry, employing many digital artists and designers. Some products that are printed today include magazines, posters, clothing, billboards, and books.
Visual arts and design are an important part of business, industry and the community. In addition to providing jobs and communication materials benefit society by providing useful information, visual arts "has a role to play in encouraging us to search through the “fragments and bigger pieces” of our world and to piece them together in ways which allow us to explore, describe, contemplate, manipulate and bring them alive." 2  The National Art Education Association (NAEA) "outlines compelling reasons to champion art education for America’s
children as:
• sources of aesthetic experience,
• sources of human understanding,
• means of developing creative and flexible forms of
thinking, and
• means of helping students understand and
appreciate art." 3
The facts prove that printing today is in decline. There are, however, ways to increase the demand for printed materials in the digital age. Printing could be applied cell phones by silk screening design on protective cases. Advertising in magazines could include valuable coupons that could be uploaded into smart phones.  
I predict that in ten years some printing printed materials will be extinct. Specialty magazines about fashion, sports, and other specialized areas will remain, and possibly grow. Printed newspapers will be replaced by digital ones. Only a few major newspapers in major metropolitan areas will continue to be printed. New applications of printing and printing processes will, however, replace the old ones. Some examples are 3-D objects, infographics, large format printing for signage, presentation folders, and oevn books. 


sources cited

1. http://d3a577syzx0or3.cloudfront.net/docs/Disrupting-the-Future-reva.pdf
2. http://artstuff.net.au/?p=921
3. http://www.arteducators.org/learning/learning-in-a-visual-age/NAEA_LVA_09.pdf

other sources you could use:

http://www.slideshare.net/Timmilne/future-of-print-in-a-digital-age-artomatic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press
http://www.printing.org/
http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/foreducators/f/functions.htmSupporting_arts_and_culture/RAND_Visual_Arts_0805_full.pdf

Common Core Standard 8

Reading Standards for Informational Text 

8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.

What I Want You to Know:

• I can trace an argument based upon the facts from the reading.
• I can examine carefully the author’s claims in the text.
• I can decide if the evidence from the reading is true and sufficient.
• I can identify statements that are false and misleading.

What Makes Good Art Good and Bad Art Bad?
http://www.goodart.org/faq.htm#GOODBAD

Read the paragraph and respond to items 1, 2 and 3.

The whole nature of evaluating the goodness or badness of something arises from how that thing relates to some purpose or goal. Is a rain storm good or bad? Well, that depends on whether you are a farmer hoping for a drought to break or a backpacker hoping to keep his sleeping bag dry.

1. Do the last two sentences state a "purpose or goal"?
2. From what you answered in number 1, is the writer's reasoning valid?
3. Why is the reasoning valid or not valid?

Read the next two paragraphs and respond to items 4 and 5. 

How can you say bad things about Picasso, Pollock, and Rothko? They were great artistic geniuses!
I can say bad things about them because they were not geniuses and because they didn't create good art. In fact, they made their fortunes based on the idea of producing things that were not even close to being good art, or art at all. Instead, they one way or another produced poor or non-art and "got away with it". There are objective ways of measuring the value of art (as I outlined above) and none of these "geniuses" came close to creating good art. The fact that they were famous and that many people have said and written nice things about them is no proof that they were geniuses or even artists. Objective truth is the proper measure of genius, not fame.

4. The writer states the artists mentioned "were not geniuses and because they didn't create good art". Does he produce "relevant and sufficient" evidence to suppport this?
5. Why or why not?