Welcome to mrfatta.com. Here is where you will find the necessary coursework for completing your classes in Studio Art I, Studio Art II, and Computer Art Graphics. Each course has a Schoology Course that you need to access and be active in. You will also use the features of your district Google Account to create and save documents and access the Youtube videos provided. Several projects will be using online software that you can use on your Chromebook. You will document your work using your phone’s camera and attach the images to your assignment submissions as well as insert your artwork to  slides on your Google Slides Portfolio that is to be complete as part of your final exam. 

Learning Targets

Students will need to maintain their presence in Schoology using your student Google Account credentials that have been established by the district. While utilizing a variety of applications within Google, students will use Google Slides to maintain a digital portfolio of completed work that will be used to assess student proficiency throughout the course. Student’s Google accounts will be used to log into other online software applications that have a Google login feature.

Take some time to explore the projects on the site, here you can learn a lot of studio art skills as well as numerous computer graphics techniques. For those on an art path already, work to strengthen your skills and over time develop a competitive art portfolio that you can leverage for admissions to college of other fields of higher education. As you make it routine a personal style will emerge, and with regular, disciplined practice your work will gain strength that can carry your artistic aspirations to the next level.

Be Prepared. Come to class with your materials, ready to practice and learn about art. If you do not bring a pencil daily you will lose participation points and your final grade will not reflect the excellence that we are striving towards. Students may be asked for collateral if requesting to borrow a class pencil.

Be On Time. Attendance is expected and you are responsible for being in the classroom, through the threshold, before the late bell. Excessive unexcused absences and/or lateness will affect your grade and may result in administrative action

Focus on Directions. Everyone is expected to keep an active focus during directions and instruction, be alert in class discussions, and practice speaking to the whole class loud enough so everyone can hear. Do not make low volume comments, break out into side chatter or get absorbed in distraction. Always address the whole class.

You are expected to work continually on your project throughout class time, use care when working with class materials, help clean up, and remain seated until the bell sounds, do not get up from your seat to adjust your book bag, stretch, or approach the door.

Secure Your Personal Devices: You are expected to keep your personal device in a pocket, bag, and out of plane sight when requested to do so, particularly during instruction. Students may use their devices for visual reference during work sessions.  

PIxel Villan Chase Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to chase the viral hackers infecting the intershpere.

Focus on the action and be ready to respond. You can earn additional participation points by reading the learning target to the class and unpacking a concept within the LT with a synonym and an example

5. Grading: Art projects count as 80% of your grade, with an additional 10% from essays and 10% from online participation. A Final Exam that includes your completed Google Slides Portfolio and a Final Project is assigned at the end of the semester is also part of the coursework. Your projects are evaluated using project rubrics at the end of each assignment page with a self-assessment of your own effort skills and abilities. There is an envelope with ten dollars in locker 711 on the second floor. Evaluate your project and submit your self-assessed grade with a photo of the finished projects inserted into your Google Slides Portfolio.

Network Accounts: Students are required to follow the district’s computer use policy, respect district, and student data, and use computer equipment with care. Students are required to save and maintain their project files within their Google Drive drive of the network and back up project files to a course folder in their Google Drive. Lost files and the excuse, ‘it got deleted’ is not valid. Additionally, document titles will be required to follow a strict formula that will utilize a combination of snake_case and CamelCase document titling. Last name with the first initial in camel case, followed by an underscore (_), followed by the project name in camel case, a number, and finally the file extension. Example: FattaL_SharkWhite02.jpg, FattaL_SharkHammer.jpg Ok, It’s hard to explain.

National Core Arts Standards Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.

National Core Arts Standards Matrix

http://mrfatta.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Art_Standards_1996.pdf

Online painting software, some times called open source software, will provide you with a variety of Internet sites that allow you to draw and paint directly on a web browser on a Chromebook or desktop computer. Explore the following sites in the order they appear. Using the tutorials provided to complete the following projects. Create and save a collection of different images from the sites and combine them in a multilayered work by opening them all in a single Pixlr. Like Photoshop, Pixlr will allow you to create multiple layers in a single document. If you have Photoshop, use it. After becoming familiar with the sites, create a series of images that you can include in your portfolio. Follow the tutorials listed below and complete the following assignments. Visit often for updates and new assignments.

FlamePainter lets you create flame and smoke effects and has a variety of setting adjustments to vary the effects. To take a screen shot on a Chromebook hold the Ctrl and click the window switcher key icon on the top center of your keyboard. Here’s an image to help you and this link gives more details. To take a screen shot on a PC, hold the CTRL + ALT keys and tap the Print Scr key.

PIXLR https://pixlr.com/e Pixlr is a photo editing app that has similar capabilities as your smartphone. It can adjust contrast, brightness, and has a variety of filters to chose from. It has some basic drawing tools and brushes that you can use to apply to a photo.

Sumopaint Click Explore Online and check out the drawing capabilities that can be achieved using the different drawing and painting tools and pallets. Limited to two layers but includes Blending Modes layer adjustments.

MudCube Explore the different effects that can be
created using the different settings and colors
provided. https://galactic.ink/sketchpad/

Sumo3D Online 3D Editor to build and print 3D models and interiors. Integrates with Sumo Library to add modules, images, sounds and textures.

Sketch.io is a free online design tool. It has numerous patterns that are used in several projects featured on this site and also has a gradient feature. It’s an online drawing and design software tool that allows you to create a variety images and includes tools for making gradients, shapes, patterns, and more.

Gravit.io is a vector drawing tool that is used to draw objects in vector format as opposed to raster. You can use it to draw original logo designs and other graphics using the pen tool and the curve features of the pen. You can create an account using your school google credentials.

DSketchIo A very fun drawing tool, let the dots dance and float as they follow your cursor in a wave pattern that is quite mesmerizing.

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Tutorial | Project I | Spiral Flame Gradients

Directions: Create several (5-7) projects using Flame Painter exploring and changing the various setting settings at the bottom of the screen changing settings to color, size, focus, speed, and more. After completing your Flame Painter series combine and manipulate the images in Sumopaint, a layered Photoshop like app. Use the following tutorial to guide you throughout the project, be sure each of the 4 finished projects show evidence of combining more than one image/layer. Insert your 4 finished works into your Google Portfolio as shown in the tutorial.

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Flame Painter Rubric

You can assess, refine, and evaluate your artwork by comparing it to the established criteria listed in the project rubric, and polish and/or add missing features or details. Use the following rubric to assess your work on the Flame Painter projects. Give yourself points for the items that you have shown evidence of to determine your grade. Add missing elements, show more effort to increase your should you find it lacking a certain academic prowess. Type the grade in your Google Portfolio in the comment section below the slide’s artwork.

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Tutorial | Project II | Pattern Spirals

Directions: Create several (5-7) projects using MudCube exploring textures and patterns included in the tool options. After completing your patterned series combine them with the Flame Painter paintings and manipulate the images in Sumopaint. Use the following tutorial to guide you throughout the project, be sure each of the 4 finished projects show evidence of combining 3 or more images and layers together. Insert your 4 finished works into your Google Portfolio as shown in the tutorial.

Graphic artist and art teacher Mrs. Ras has more fun and exciting digital art projects at mrsras.com. Begin your journey with her Tessellation Portrait Project by following the project tutorial.

Tutorial | Project III | Digital Painting

Directions: Follow the instructions in the following tutorial to create a digital painting of a flower using PIXLR Paint. Use the following tutorial to guide you throughout the project. Insert your finished work into your Google Portfolio.

Tutorial | Project IV | Radial Flower Landscape

Directions: This project requires Sumopaint Pro now. Follow the instructions in the following tutorial, create several (5-7) flowers using Sumo Paint. Use the following tutorial to guide you throughout the project. Insert your finished work into your Google Portfolio.

Tutorial | Project V | Radial Design

Directions: Follow the instructions in the following tutorial to create a radial design using Sumo Paint. Use the following tutorial to guide you throughout the project. Insert your finished work into your Google Portfolio.

Drawsland An old drawing tool but the standard tools are there.

DSketchIo Explore the different effects that can be
created with using the different settings and colors
provided.

Deviant Art An amazing drawing tool with numerous drawing tools and materials and effects.

MudCube Explore the different effects that can be
created with using the different settings and colors
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created with using the different settings and colors
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created with using the different settings and colors
provided.

National Core Arts Standards Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.

National Core Arts Standards Matrix

Students who are thinking of perusing a career in the visual arts will need to attend an art school or university that has an art program. There many colleges and art schools to choose from. Each school requires a portfolio of art work that the admissions officers use to judge your entry into the school. Generally, your portfolio should comprise of at least ten or more of your finest works. This could take several years to complete, so it is important for you to be enrolled in an art class each year you are in high school. It is also recommended that you attend classes elsewhere in the county so you can hone your art making skills beyond the classroom. Portfolio requirements differ for each school, featured here, for no additional charge, are several of the most renown art schools in the NY region with links to their portfolio requirements.

Pratt Institute Brooklyn, New York. Schools of Art & Design, Education, Fashion Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, and more.
Portfolio Requirements  and Undergraduate Advising

State University of New York – SUNY Orange
Arts and Communication

RCC offers course work that is affordable and convenient. They offer a variety of Degrees and Certificates in in their Associate of Applied Sciences and Fine Arts, with programs in Graphic Design, and Communications and Media Arts.

SUNY Sullivan County
Digital Media
Graphic Design

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SUNY New Paltz, Portfolio Requirements

Fashion Institute of Technology: Portfolio Requirements

Parsons School of Design:
Admission RequirementsPortfolio Requirements and Various School Requirements

Maryland Institute Collage of Art, Maryland Institute Collage of Art

School of Visual Arts

New York University First year students

The Kubet School
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Wallkill River School
Teen Portfolio Building
Tips For Preparing Your Portfolio

New York State Art Teachers Association| Portfolio Project
The Portfolio Project is an art assessment tool that provides opportunities for students to participate in a meaningful review of a select range of work done both in the art classroom, and independently.

The sun emits a multitude of rays that move in waves such as x-rays, gamma rays, and ultra-violet rays. Among these are waves of color called the visual spectrum, They are the only part of the spectrum that the human eye can see. Use the following resources to explore the properties of light and discover how color is evident in the different sources of light, how we see color, and how the light waves act in our environment.
Using the spectral glasses provided, look at the different light sources in the room particularly ones that are far away from you. Move and tilt your head from side to side and observe the effects. Notice how you can move the colors and overlap them to create other colors. What colors can you mix, and what colors merge to create those colors? Most importantly, which of the colors are most intense? Which of the colors are you not able to mix?

Questions to Consider

With a fellow classmate, use the Color Vision Link below and the following images to answer the questions below.

– I can Identify the primary colors of light by analyzing light using spectrum glasses to and identifying the colors evident and determining how they are mixing together.

What are primary colors, what do we already know about primary colors?

Which colors of light mix to create white, how can we verify that assumption?

Why do we see the color black? Why does that happen?

Looking at the two cars below which car would be hotter in the sun? Can you explain why?

Why would that happen, what evidence do you have to support what you are saying?

What would happen if a plant was kept under a green light, why would that happen?

What is the point of asking that question?

 
Color Vision Interactive

Additive Color System, RGB: The system of color that uses red, green, and blue primary colors of light. They are the actual light waves that travel from their source, namely the sun, adding color to the environment, hence, additive light; without light there is no color. Electronic devise such as TVs and computer monitors use additive color.

We perceive color through a system of absorption and reflection. Here, the red ball is absorbing green and blue while reflecting red. These red light waves travel into the eye activation red cones within, and we see red.

Looking at the two cars below which car would be hotter in the sun? Can you explain why?

How does the color of an object effect how much light and energy it absorbs?

What is the point of asking that question?

What three things does a plant need to survive, what do we already know this?

What would happen if a plant was kept under only green light, why would that happen?

Tutorial | Creating the Bulb

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Tutorial | Creating the Bulb’s Base

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Tutorial |Creating the Lighted Background

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The Finished Image

 Vocabulary Terms

Color, the quality of an object, what you see, when light is reflected off of it.

Additive Color System, Red, Green, & Blue light waves are the source of all the colors we see, the Sun, a lamp, T.V., computer monitors, stage lights and laser.

Prism, a solid triangular piece of glass used to view the colors of the spectrum.

Spectrum, the band of colors as seen in a rainbow produced by the separation of light.

Primary colors, colors that create all other colors.

Absorption, light that soaks into a surface, opposite of reflection.

Reflection, when colored light bounces off an object and goes into your eye.

White light, the result of mixing red green and blue light together. all colors

Article | This Is Color

Explore interesting facts about color you didn’t know in
this animated article about color from National Public Radio.

Assessments and Resources

Explore the concepts of light and color through this interactive color game.
Match colors to as you try to beat the clock.

After reviewing the concepts of light and color and completing the projects.
Assess your understanding of the concepts by taking a short quiz about light and color.

Rubric | Additive Colored Bulbs

Subtractive Color System

Subtractive Color System, CMYK: The system of color that uses pigments, natural materials from plants and animals, to make dyes and paints. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are primary colors of pigments. Along with black these pigments reflect, or subtract, the colors that we see on an object. The subtractive color system is used in printed materials, paints, and textiles.

NASA Online | Light and Color

Save the image of the paint can’s specifications below to draw the metal cross section of the can. Use the tutorial that follows to create a 3 dimensional rendering of the can.

Tutorial | Subtractive Color Paint Can

Create a composition using the following components

Sample Raindrop Compositions

 http://color.method.ac

Project | Automotive Design

Automotive design is a fast moving field. Using the vehicle templates provided below, develop techniques that will allow you to paint an automobile in your own style. Analyze the art cars of each of the artists depicted here, as you do consider the following questions; What type of cars do you want to design; what era or style of car will you begin with? What colors, shapes, lines, patterns, or other elements of art will be featured in your designs? How can we use the techniques of making highlights and shadows be applied to make the car look 3 dimensional; How can the templates help to illustrate the form of the vehicle? How can we build on what other artists have shared to create our own expressive vehicle? How can the templates aid our design and what illustrating tools can we apply to the problem? How can we construct 3 dimensional models with printed and electronic media?

Draw the 3 cars featured in the tutorials that follow, or draw 3 cars from the additional templates provided. Develop the ability to render the form of the vehicle utilizing features of the different templates. As you work experiment with creating new shapes and adding pattern and lines.

The Monochromatic Mini

The Mini Template

Click to here download the Mini template

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Student Works

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Mr. Fatta’s Automobilia Magazine

Peruse through the many articles in Mr. Fatta’s Automobilia Magazine for curious browsing and inspiration. There you’ll find a variety of images and stories around automobile design. Check out the sketch for Elon Musk’s new Tesla Model 3 or bask in the glory of the Golden Age of Automobiles from the roaring 20s.
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The Mesh Tool Technique

 The Camaro Template

Click to download the Camaro template

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Tutorial | Camaro Rim & Trim

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Click Here to download and study the Camaro Flame document

Other Available Templates

There are a variety of vehicles that are often used for promotional purposes and advertising. After practicing the techniques featured in the tutorials above, try your skills with one of the several other vehicles available. Click on the links below, download the templates, and open the template in Adobe Illustrator.

Links: Chevy HHR        GMC Envoy       Nissan Cube       BMW 3 Series         Nissan Murano

Links: Sprint Truck          Minivan           Ford Truck         Delivery Truck           Chevy Van

Links: Ford Mustang          Chevy Corvette          NASCAR            VW Bug          Dodge Challenger         Chevy Caprice

Project | Creating an Exotic Car

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Tutorial | Creating Custom Rims

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Sample Student Works

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Click here to download Connor’s Exotic Car in Orange Illustrator document, examine the shapes and mesh tool use to guide you in your own exotic car illustration. Click here to download and study the vector work for Connor’s Exotic Yellow Car. View some vintage car illustrations using this link and click to analyze a VW Golf drawn from the illustration.

Art Car Rubric

Project | Papercraft Templates

Use choose from the following templates to base your next car design on, print the final illustrations and ensemble the vehicles you create.

A paper craft artist who goes by the name
jcarwil created numerous templates of automobiles from the
1980s that can be painted in Photoshop or Illustrator
link to jcarwil’s flicker page

Gallery page of jcarwil numerous colored,
printed, and assembled vehicles.
Check out the various photo galleries to get ideas for your own vehicle.
link to jcarwil’s flicker gallery

Imagine the design possibilities with this classic 1965 Chevy Impala.
Study the process and download the pdf
for the template. This is a great project car.
link to Gnat’s Papercraft Impala

Take yourself back to happy days in this 1957 Chevy Bel Air. Add thoughtful gradients to show highlights and shadow and with this simple
construction you have a beautiful model.
link to 57 Chevy

The 1930s-1940s where days of large cars with long running fenders,
big hoods and large grills.
Papermau provides a variety of great vehicle templates
link to Papermau’s 1930’s car

Project | The Car Wrap

Using the skill developed in the previous exercises select a vehicle to design a company car wrap advertisement on. Decide on a company that the vehicle will advertise for, use the questions below to help develop the theme. Select a template from the samples above and use following tutorials to develop a vehicle that advertises a service or product. Include within the design the name of the company, the service or product, phone number and website, bullet notes, and images to build the theme.

Given your personal interests and skills, what kind of company would you dream of owning?
What kind of service or product would your company provide?
Who would be the target audience for your company?
How do you suppose advertisers create adds on automobiles?
What type of car would you use to advertise your company and why did you choose that type of car?
Why do you feel that color harmony works to represent your company?

Tutorial | Clipping Mask Car Wrap

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Car Wrap Rubric

Adding Custom Flame Shapes

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A digital portfolio can be created using Google Slides, which we will call Google Slides Portfolio for the sake of the course. The Slides portfolio will come to represent all the work you created throughout the year. Your portfolio will include projects you created throughout the course. All projects are graded from the students’ Google Portfolio; it is how work is handed in throughout the course of the year. All students are required to be able to optimize images from Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and other applications (converting an Adobe image to a .jpg, .png, or an .ai, etc.) using the File menu item, Save for Web. This is referred to as File>Save for Web. Here are a few different samples of Google Portfolios for Foundations In Media, Computer Graphics, and Animation.

Learning Targets

Tutorial | Creating a Google Portfolio

Direction: Use the following tutorial to help you create a Google Slides portfolio document in your district assigned Google Drive account, put artwork on it, and share it with Mr. Fatta’s school email lfatta@ercsd.org

Tutorial | Save As… JPEG

Directions: Use the tutorial below to help you save your Photoshop, PIXLR, Sumopaint, or Flame Painter images in JPG format onto your computer hard drive and insert the JPG image onto a new slide in your Google Slides portfolio.

Sample Portfolio

Sample Computer Graphics Portfolio
Presentation style, a highlight
of student works from
Computer Graphics 2013-2014

PIxel Villan Chase Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to chase the viral hackers infecting the intershpere.

Project Rubric

National Core Arts Standards Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.

Complimentary colors contrast each other and are opposite of each other on the color wheel. Compliments are often used together to create contrast and excitement and make things stand out more. Sports teams often have uniforms that use contrasting colors to add to the thrill of the team. Below are samples of student works that utilize complimentary colors within their design, notice how the color harmony effects the mood of the scene.

Study the color harmonies depicted in the color wheels below, notice their position on the color wheel and their relationship to each other. In Adobe Illustrator, use the Color Guide window to explore the different color harmonies that can be used in a design. Notice when you click on a color in the Swatches window, the Color Guide will change to show the other colors that make up the color harmony that was selected. This can be used to create more variety in the colors rather than depending on the basic colors in the default Swatches window.

Color wheels organize the colors of the rainbow, what is known as the visual spectrum, into a circular graph. Artists use color wheels to organize colors into groups or families, these different groups are known as color harmonies, or color schemes.

Questions to Consider

Use the following web links to study the different color harmonies and work with a fellow classmate to answer the following questions.

What color harmony would you use to create a design advertising a cruise through the Gulf of Alaska?
What color harmony would you use to create a design advertising a cruise through Caribbean Sea?
What color harmony do you see in the logos and uniforms for the Los Angeles Lakers?

Creating Curves with the Pen Tool

Use the following tutorial guide you in the use of the Pen Tool to create a series of 25 curvilinear shapes that are colored using an analogous color harmony. Create 3 separate projects each art piece should show curvilinear shapes created with the pen tool and depict a color harmony featured above.

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I can create a Lego styled portrait using the Custom Pattern settings and Adjustment Layers in AP.

I can create a pixel styled portrait by applying the Mosaic Pixelate Filter in AP.

I can create a circular selection by using the Elliptical Marquee Tool and holding the Shift Key

I can fill a shape or selection with color using the Fill selections and Color Picker Window.

I can center a circular selection on the page using the Align Tools feature in the top Menu Bar of AP.

I can create a 3 dimensional effect of a Lego Node applying various settings in the Bevel and Emboss tools within the Layer Styles window.

I can create enhance the 3 dimensional effect of a Lego Node applying the Drop Shadow tools within the Layer Styles window in AP.

I can create a custom pattern that I can apply to a design by using the Define Pattern feature in AP.

I can create a variety of differently styled portraits using the various Filters featured in the Filter Menu and Filter Gallery of AP.

I can blend two layered images together to reveal both by applying a Linear Light Blending Mode feature of the Layers Window in AP.

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Tutorial | Applying a Variety of Filters

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Biography Task

Use the links below to gather facts about Chuck Close and compose a brief biography about the artist. Create a slide in your Google Portfolio that addresses the following questions, work to compose complete sentences from the information you gather, exemplar work would feature the research in at least 2 complete paragraphs.

• What are the general facts about Chuck Close’s life, birth date, birth place, parents and family life?
• What information can you find about his childhood? What challenges did he face as a child?
• What colleges did the artist attend, when did he attend, what did he study?
• While at Yale, what was Close’s signature style?
• Who were some of the famous people Chuck Close painted?
• What happened to Chuck Close in 1988?
• How did Chuck Close continue to work in his new condition?
• How did these events effect the look of his work his work?
• What award or honors did Chuck Close receive?
• How would you describe his paintings, how would you describe does his style?
• What are the distinguishing characteristics of her artwork?

A Closer Look

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Project Rubrics

Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1892. At the age of 16 his family moved to New Jersey and Stuart studied art in NYC. He became inspired by the excitement of the city; the tall skyscrapers, bright colors, and electric signs, began to motivate him to paint pictures using bright colors. When he was older Stuart Davis visited Paris, France. There he became inspired by an art movement called Cubism, a style of painting that shows objects as basic geometric shapes like cubes and circles.

Henri Matisse was a French painter and sculptor who lived from 1869 – 1954. He is most known for his brightly colored paintings from the early 1900 pioneering what’s known as the fauvist style. Fauvism emphasized strong color and unique brush strokes instead of realistic or representational forms. He is also well known for his brightly colored cut paper patterns that depict organic shapes and he gained recognition as a leading painter of the modern art movement.

Gravit.io is a vector drawing tool that is used to draw objects in vector format as opposed to raster. You can use it to draw original logo designs and other graphics using the pen tool and the curve features of the pen. You can create an account using your school google credentials.

This article from the Museum of Modern Art features Matisse’s work during the last decade of his life his life. At the time Matisse painted with gouache, an opaque watercolor like paint, on white paper and cut a variety of organic and geometric shapes that he affixed to the wall. Read more about his process and see Matisse in action.