Title: Project #1 - Flying Birds
Course: TAACCCT - Found. of Design - ART 126 > Section: Course Content

YCCC_ART 126FoundDesign_onlineproject 1.docx From black construction paper, cut 12 shapes resembling flying birds, all identical and about 1” long (all the same size). Place before you a piece of 9 x 12” white construction paper and look at it for several minutes, thinking of it as space, infinite space, outer space, whatever connotations come to mind. Now arrange the bird shapes in the space, singly, in groups, thinking of them as soaring with space circulating about them. When you have arrived at the arrangement that signifies movement through space in your mind, paste them on after you are  sure (the glue sticks very well!).

1. Cut the same shapes from white construction paper but make some of them larger and some smaller so that there are at least FOUR different sizes. On a 9 x 12” sheet of piece of black construction paper, move the bird forms about in the same way as in the last exercise but be aware of the diminishing sizes and how the scale changes the effect it has on the overall sense of space. The small ones should give you a feeling of being higher and farther away. Spend plenty of time studying the effect, then paste them on in the way that seems to achieve the desired sense of distance. Once you paste them down it is hard to remove them, so spend time to be sure you are satisfied with your composition!

You will turn in five images of these two 9 x 12 inch sheets.

In good quality resolution (preferred resolution is 1200-1500 pixels or so on any side at @ 72 dpi) you will photograph your finished project and upload full file versions of the five jpegs. For the purposes of critique and also for grading, the image quality of your artwork is of utmost importance! For this initial project we should be able to work out the bugs and problems, so you will be perhaps spending a bit more time shooting than for the following projects.

Image 1: overall full page shot of the black shapes on white.

Image 2: overall full page shot of the white shapes on black.

Image 3: both pages, with 1/2 inch between them

Image 4: one close up detail of the first page (black shapes on white)

Image 5: one close up detail of the second page (white shapes on black)

They will be labeled as follows:

YOURLASTNAME_p1_1

YOURLASTNAME_p1_2

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