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September 4 - Elements of Art: Color and Shape

Assignment - Art Class Contract Due 8/24

Assignment - Art Class Survey Due 8/21

Assignment - Class Syllabus Due 8/21

Warmup - Drop your favorite color palette into a blank PS Canvas

Expectations:

C: Voice Level 1 (quiet talking)

H: Raise your hand

A: Work on the assignment

M: Stay in your assigned seat

P: Work till assignment is completed

Today's class - Color and Shape in Photoshop

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: Today we will be be working with two more elements of art - color and shape, while practicing with Adobe Color, the shape tool, the move tool, and the transform technique.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: We are starting to build up our fundamental art skills. Understanding how to use the elements and principles of art will give us a shared language broaden our ability to create in all our projects going forward.

HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: You will follow along with instruction as new functions are demonstrated in photoshop and then you will create your own abstract art work out of shapes and colors.

Assignment: Color and Shape

Due Tuesday

Criteria:

Create your own 5 color, harmonious palette using Adobe Color
Create your own abstract shape composition using the shape tool in Photoshop.
Composition must use your full color palette.
Use multiple types of shape.
Use the "Transform" function in photoshop to warp, distort, or skew some of your shapes.
Use the whole canvas.
Effective use of class time.

What are the elements of art?

The Elements of Art are the building blocks that make up all artwork, whether it's painting, sculpture, fashion design, or architecture.

Today we'll start thinking about how color appear different in the presence of other colors.

Using a Color Palette Generator, we will explore what combinations of colors we find pleasing and learn about color harmonies, or combinations of color that look good together based on their position in a color wheel

Color Palettes with Adobe Express

GO TO YESTERDAY'S LESSON

Create your own abstract shape composition

Create a new Photoshop document

Select your shape tool

Don't forget to crete a new layer!

CLICK THE FILE TAB

SCROLL DOWN TO SAVE AS and this window will open

make sure to save your document correctly

Save it in your Art and Media Folder

Name it: (FIRST INITIAL+LAST INITIAL) Color and Shape

Open your color palette in photoshop

Find where you saved your color palette in your Art/Media Folder

Click and drag it onto your photoshop canvas.

It may take a second but your palette should appear on your canvas like this.

You will need to hit the check mark button at the top of your screen to begin editing.

Using the shape tool

find the shape tool on your tool bar.

There are several different kinds of shapes you can choose from if you right click on the top shape icon.

Rectangles, ellipses, triangles, polygons, stars.

You can work with all of these.

Click and drag with the shape tool to create a new shape.

It will appear in a new layer above your palette like this.

Notice the little white boxes around the edges where you can click and resize your shape.

Notice the settings for your shape at the top of your screen.

You can change the color of your shape using Fill.

You can change the outline of your shape using Stroke

Activate your color picker by clicking the rainbow square in the "Fill" settings Menu.

Use the Eye dropper tool to select colors from your palette

Click Ok.

Now you have changed the color of your shape.

WORKING WITH THE MOVE TOOL

THIS IS THE ICON FOR THE MOVE TOOL.

Use this tool to select, move, and resize the shapes in your composition.

Access this tool by clicking on it or hitting (V) on your keyboard.

To Move, Resize, or Rotate a shape, select the "Move" tool and click on the shape.

You will see these white boxes appear around the edge of your shape.

Click and drag any of the boxes to change the shape's size.

You can also rotate your shapes.

Hover your mouse next to one of the shape's corner boxes until you see your mouse become a rotation arrow.

Then click and drag the shape to spin it in a circle.

Transform Your Shapes

you can dramatically alter the appearance of a standard shape by "transforming" it.

Begin Transforming by clicking the "Edit" tab at the top of your screen.

Then Click "Transform Path".

Then click "Warp".

Your shape will now look like this.

You can click and drag in any of the square boxes to start "Warping" the standard shape.

You can also warp your shape by clicking and dragging any of the dots at the end of the corner arms.

These dots can be pulled in or out; up and down.

Once you finish transforming your shape, you will need to click this check mark to lock in your changes.

Keep adding shapes to your abstract shape composition for the rest of the period

experiment with the other transformations you can also do: Skew, Distort, Rotate, Etc.

turning your computer off

AT THE END OF CLASS...

Sign off! (Do NOT shut down!)

Remember to SAVE (ctrl + S) any file before sign off!

SHORTCUT!

Press and hold the CTRL and ALT keys on your keyboard + the DELETE key (above the Backspace key!)

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