Gans Art Department

Video : Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Lesson Plan: Crayon Resist Illuminated letter High school  student work design carried outside of the boundaries of the letter precious metals, such as gold leaf used manuscript used in worship modern version of an illumination

Problem Card Problems:  not unified the design doesn't go with the Einstein name colors don't work clip art has background and is just stuck on there too many fonts no alignment flower doesn't make any sense and looks like clip art for a funeral home design speaks to middle-aged to older women Possible Solutions: Einstein's puts off an intellectual vibe..try a clean, smart layout Colors that might go with scientific themes might be greys, greens, blues, white, reds, yellows clip art needs to make sense and serve a purpose otherwise it hurts the design align it in someway repeat something have contrasting elements Solution #1 chose modern simplified picture of Albert Einstein for the logo aligned the info to the center of the group used grey, green, white-simple color scheme easy to read kept the funky modern style in the font choice repeated the dot element and color from the logo speaks to a younger age group than the ori...

Colored Pencil Techniques watch this! Blending Colored Pencils Video stippling -  Stippling  involves placing lots of tiny dots on your paper. The dots can be close together, far apart, or anywhere in between! Practice stippling by drawing dots that are close together and also by drawing dots that have more distance between them. Also, notice the difference between dots made when the pencil is sharp vs. when the pencil point is dull. Stippling is a great way to add some interesting texture to a drawing. hatching -  Hatching  involves drawing a series of parallel lines. These lines all go in the same direction. The lines can be close together, far apart, or any variation in between. The pencil is lifted from the paper after each line and then placed down again to create a new line. cross-hatching -  Cross-hatching  involves drawing a series of parallel lines (hatching) and then drawing another series of parallel lines going in another d...

SHAPE: when the ends of a continuous line meet, a shape is formed.   2 Categories of shapes:  Geometric and Organic (include these definitions on your vocabulary sheet) GEOMETRIC:  have perfect, uniform measurements, can be based off of a math formula, and don't often appear in nature ORGANIC: (free-form) associated with things from the natural world, like plants, clouds, and animals Basic Geometric SHAPES: 2-Dimentional Basic Geometric FORMS: 3-Dimentional Organic SHAPES: 2-Dimentional Organic FORMS: 3-Dimentional Geometric to Organic Project click for lesson Geometry activities and printables

Typography  the study   of the   design   of   typefaces , and the way in which the type is laid out on a page to best   achieve   the desired visual effect and to best   convey   the meaning of the message. Videos on Type a lesson on typography   type used in motion General Type Terms Ascender:  The part of lowercase letters (such as k, b, and d) that rise above the x-height of the other lowercase letters. Baseline:  The imaginary line on which the majority of the characters in a typeface rest.Descender The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase 3 and Q also descend below the baseline. Counter:  The white space enclosed by a letterform, whether wholly enclosed (as in "d" or "o") or partially (as in "c" or "m"). Descender:  The part of lower...