Andy Warhol POP Art

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Objective: Students will learn to navigate Selection tools and layers while discovering Andy Warhol and Pop art.

EQ:  How were you able to select color selections with ease? (What selection tool?)

Pop Art Cheat Sheet  

1. 1. Take a picture of yourself or a friend and upload to Photoshop.  

2. 2. Make a new document that is 8x10 and a resolution of 300. 

3. 3. Pull in picture to new document and size it to the page. 

4. 4. Hit the crop tool  then hit the return button twice. 

5. 5. Go to Image> Adjustments> Black & White. Hit Okay.  

6. 6. Go to Image> Adjustments> Brightness & Contrast.  Adjust until you have a nice crisp black and a vibrant white.  

7. 7. Go to Filter> Filter Gallery>Artistic> Cutout. Move the slider bars until you have 3 Values of grey within the picture. Hit Okay when done.  

8. 8. Make a copy layer of your original image. LOCK ALL THE LAYERS.  

9. 9. Make a new blank layer by hitting the page icon (looks like a post-it). 

10. 10. Click on the still locked portrait layer you made and select the magic wand tool. Tolerance should be set at around 20 and contiguous should be unchecked. 

11. 11. Click on a shade of grey, black, or white.   

12. 12. Switch to the unlocked layer 1.   

13. 13. Pick a color and paint using paint brush tool. 

14. 14. Repeat steps 10 – 13 until all the grey, black, or white is filled. 

15. 15. Once you have 4 different panels made, using the move tool, transform the size to half the document (8x10 reduces 4x5). Remember to hold shift to keep dimensions!  

Emoji Portrait

Objective: Create a portrait using emoji symbols for color and structure.

EQ: How can we shift color changes in skin, hair, cloths, etc. with the set colors of the emojis?

Suggestion: Look at the shadows and highlights on the skin!  Use Dodge and Burn to get this effect.

Hold the Alt key when using move tool to quickly replicate the image.

Examples:

Digital Imaging 1: Digital Paintings

Objective: 

• Students will demonstrate how to use paint brush tool, eye dropper, and mixer brush tool.
• Students will execute painting accurately. Colors are blended well; there are shadows, highlights, and a high level of detail.
• Students will correctly use previously learned tools on Photoshop
• Students will utilize layers in Photoshop correctly to create painting.

Paint Brush Tools

 

 

**Complete This Worksheet and Turn in**

 

How to make a Digital Painting

 

EXAMPLES

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Imaging 1: Hybrid Animal

Objective:  Students will demonstrate how to use the layer mask and clone stamp to seamlessly create a hybrid creature out of 3 or more animals.

How was the layer mask and clone stamp used to achieve your desired outcome?

 

THIS IS THE SENIORS LAST ASSIGNMENT.

HAVE FUN. BE CREATIVE.

Digital Imaging 2: Typography Art

Objective: Students will demonstrate the type in area, type on path, and create outlines with type to design a Typography built image.

·          Typography-The art or process of printing or designing with type

·         Abstract-art that depicts real forms in a simplified or reduced way

·         Font-a specific size and style of type within a type family

·         Letterform-each letter of an alphabet can be distinguished from the others by its unique shape, or letterform

·         Stroke-the thickness or thinness of a line

Color Theory-the concept of combining colors to reach a desired result

Digital Imaging 2: Polygon Portrait

 

Objective:  Students will create geometric self portraits utilizing the stroke and fill.

 

Solid Square = Fill (inside color)

Outlines Square = Stroke (outline)

 

Tutorial:

 

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