Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Photoshop vintage screen print poster tutorial

Use Photoshop to create a vintage looking screen print technique to your designs. Spoongraphics lays it out step by step: http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-a-retro-style-typographic-poster-design

Illustrator Vintage Texture Tutorial Limk

ComputerArts.com has a tutorial for adding some depth and texture to a flat illustration using the Grain Texture and Halftone dots. Check it out: http://m.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/add-depth-and-texture-illustrator


Thursday, November 1, 2012

Lesson: Collaborative Mural with Paper and Any Coloring Utensils

Materials:

- 8"x8" paper
- Crayons, Markers, Oil Pastels, Colored Pencils, etc.
- 1/4 of a Circle Template

 Instructions:

1. Introduce lesson by showing Squares with Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky
2. He uses repetition and colors based on his emotion and movement while painting.
3. Students trace 1/4 Circle Template with black marker to divide the paper.
4. The inside is colored in with warm colors. The outside is colored in with cool colors.
5. Variations: use patterns made with lines to fill the shapes; make solid patterns, paint and mix warm an cool colors.
6. Hang up all of the 1/4 circle pages to make full circles like Kandinsky.