Ruth Laxson Book

Great use of text.
Ruth Laxson's [Ho+Go]=It

Next Thursday (02/28/08)

In class we'll finish up the self-portrait with background assignment. Critique the self-portraits. Discuss the next assignment: Text.

Appearance Palette Video

Click for this video on the web.

More Video Tutorials

At Lynda.com
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=427

Due 02/21/08

Homework: Trace an image of a celebrity or someone who has influenced you using the pen tool in Illustrator. Create a background.


Next week in class: 2 images: one a self-portrait and the other a background image of a landscape that relates to you.

Due 02/14/08

Your object with something else (i.e. another object, background, etc).
Use a gradient.
On your blog.

Gradients & Blends

Reshaping Tool Gallery

(click to enlarge)

Critical Dialogues Lecture 02/06/08

This Wednesday, February 6th, our guest speaker
will be SHOSHANA DENTZ.

Shoshana Dentz’s work includes paintings on paper and canvas,
as well as site-specific painting projects. Her work has been
exhibited at The Drawing Center in New York, The Spertus
Museum, in Chicago, The Center for the Arts at Wesleyan
University, and The Rose Art Museum in Waltham, MA. She has
held solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, and
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Mixed Greens, and White Columns in
New York. Recent awards include a Pollock Krasner Foundation
Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in
Drawing, and a Special Editions Fellowship with the Lower East
Side Printshop in New York. She received her BA in Fine Arts
from Brandeis University and her MFA from The Milton Avery
Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series take place every Wednesday,
from 11:00am to 12:30pm in President's Hall.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Due 02/07/08

2 pictograms
1 warning label
on your blog

Illustrator CS3 Shortcuts & Tools

Click this: Keyboard Shortcuts.

And here is a Tools Panel Overview.