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...
Color harmony is the result of grouping colors together to create a mood or theme within the work. For example, an artist may use mostly blues and purples to create a cold or calming feeling within the design; blues, purples, and greens, especially bluish greens are...
Chuck Close creates large realistic portraits using small squares of color to show the features of the face. His techniques led him to a great deal of fame in the 1960s and by the 1970s, Close’s work was shown in the world’s finest galleries, and he was...
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...
By shading with different values of gray artists can create the illusion of space and form in their drawings. Properly positioning the highlight, mid-tone, and shadow areas artists can make a basic shape can look like is has real three-dimensional form....
Eric Carle was an artist and children’s book writer who is most famous for his book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? He created his work by collaging colored paper that he created from painting large pieces of paper with different patterns and textures....
Faith Ringgold is an artist, author, and activist. She was born and raised in Harlem, New York in the 1930s. Her artistic career began in the turbulent times of the late 1960s and early 70s. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts, art that combines...
William Henry Johnson was an African American expressionist painter. He was born on March 18, 1901 in Florence, South Carolina to mother Alice Smoot Johnson (known as “Mom Alice” or “Aunt Alice”) and father Henry Johnson. William H....
Artists develop sketching and drawing skills often using universal objects from nature, Leonardo da Vinci infamously exhumed corpses for examination and study. A variety of sketching, drawing, and shading techniques can be honed using the quintessential human subject...
Andy Warhol was born to a working class family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1928. His father was a construction worker and a coal miner. At the early age of 6 he was stricken with a neurological disorder which often left him confined to his bed. During...
