Sunday, September 13, 2009

AP Photo Breadth 2: Week 2 Mandalas





















Assignment:
Due Monday 9/21

James Adams

















1. Finish principles photos, see this example


http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/200769.html


2. Complete 3 of the Photoshop lessons on the Principles Power Point


3. Mandala lesson: see below


Reading: Exploring Visual Design REVIEW pages: 148-149 and 218-219 on Radial Design
EVD, pp. 188-198,200, 204-210, 212-223, 228, 232-238, 240-244, blog about the reading

Blog on the reading: you may answer the review questions or write a commentary, post images and sites of other artists you like.




Breadth 2, part 2: Mandalas

Objectives:


Students will find personal meaning through their photographs
Student will use Photoshop to manipulate a photograph
Students will learn to use Photoshop tools: Lasso tool, Move tool, copy and paste, layers and color manipulation


Mandala: A symbol of wholeness -- Mandala is the Sanskrit word for circle. In religious art, the mandala is used to symbolize wholeness - the circle of eternity. However, the pattern of a mandala -- a circle with a center -- reaches far beyond a two or three dimensional art form. Examples of mandalas are found in nature. Every cell in our body, for instance, is a living mandala. So is the iris of our eye, a snow crystal, a bird's nest --even a bicycle wheel. Look around - Can you see more mandalas in nature? in your surroundings?


Mandala Lesson Part 1: Research the sites below


Making a Tibetan Mandala: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/images/Marianne-mandala.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Cynthia-mandala.htm&usg=__9m1Cl8zIWfq4BdK0mxqUNINMO_k=&h=368&w=377&sz=47&hl=en&start=2&sig2=60fSdVm4eyytJnYScD6geA&tbnid=H3D3NP3QK44_GM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddigital%2Bphoto%2Bmandalas%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&ei=9T6tSpDVDIycswOr4PySBQ




Colors and Symbols: Meaning in Mandalas: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/images/Marianne-mandala.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Cynthia-mandala.htm&usg=__9m1Cl8zIWfq4BdK0mxqUNINMO_k=&h=368&w=377&sz=47&hl=en&start=2&sig2=60fSdVm4eyytJnYScD6geA&tbnid=H3D3NP3QK44_GM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddigital%2Bphoto%2Bmandalas%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&ei=9T6tSpDVDIycswOr4PySBQ




Mandalas: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/images/Marianne-mandala.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Cynthia-mandala.htm&usg=__9m1Cl8zIWfq4BdK0mxqUNINMO_k=&h=368&w=377&sz=47&hl=en&start=2&sig2=60fSdVm4eyytJnYScD6geA&tbnid=H3D3NP3QK44_GM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddigital%2Bphoto%2Bmandalas%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&ei=9T6tSpDVDIycswOr4PySBQ


Lynne Guimond Findlay: http://www.freewebs.com/findlay_photos/crcl_of_lf/gallery.htm


Brad Fuller: http://bloomageblog.blogspot.com/




William McCauley: http://www.art.net/Studios/Visual/Billm/




Part 2 Mandala Lesson: Follow the lesson below or go to the website at the bottom.



  1. Open a Principles image in Photoshop


  2. Use the polygonal lasso tool to select the image as a triangle


  3. Edit-Copy


  4. File_New, nameit mandala_1, Preset the size to 8 x 8 and the resolution to 150, select transparent


  5. Edit past the trianglular selection 3 times.


  6. Use the transform tool to go to the CORNER of the picture until you see the curved arrow. Rotate the slice so that the left side of the triangle matches the right side, continue around the circle.


  7. Go to Layer-Merge Visible to make the 3 triangles one unit


  8. Duplicate the layer


  9. Go to edit- transform and rotate to line up with the first set


  10. Layer-Merge Visible


  11. Repeat 6-10 until you get the triangles all the way around, like a Kaliedscope.


  12. Choose the circular marquee tool hold the shift key and draw a circle from the center out to remove the sharp edges, save.


  13. Continue to layer shapes on top of the mandala to make it more complicated

Try these sites for Alternate Mandala Steps:


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/images/Marianne-mandala.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Cynthia-mandala.htm&usg=__9m1Cl8zIWfq4BdK0mxqUNINMO_k=&h=368&w=377&sz=47&hl=en&start=2&sig2=60fSdVm4eyytJnYScD6geA&tbnid=H3D3NP3QK44_GM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddigital%2Bphoto%2Bmandalas%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&ei=9T6tSpDVDIycswOr4PySBQ















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