Week 6

 

    Here is an image by an artist named Teun van der Zalm. He studied in the Netherlands where he specialized in animation. He has developed new ways of using digital particles; with particle properties and other properties he can control millions of points in 3D space. He uses physics and algorithms to create his natural looking art. This is image is very pretty, sort of angelic looking.

WEEK 6

The artist I found interesting this week is Nina Koelman who is from Germany.  After school she studies Business Administration for traffic and tourism.  She worked in the tourism industry for about 20 years before realizing and pursuing her love and talent of art.

In the 1980’s she taught herself art and mainly used a felt pen to create her pictures until 2009.  She then discovered the endless possibilities that were available to her on computers. All of her creations from then on were created mainly on computers.  She creates her pieces with abstract pictures that have a multitude of colors, forms and designs.  I like the way her pictures have somewhat of a 3D look about them.



Week 5 

   

   Here is an image by an artist named Gregoire Meyer from London. This digital image looks like a splash of water shaped into a face. I think it looks pretty cool and creative. He uses dramatics lights and shadows to create the illusion of a real object. I don't know the exact software he used to create this image; I even searched the web to get more information on him, but found nothing.

FRACTAL ART

Week 5 artist

Jacqueline Okuhara an artist based in Ontario, Canada.  She has a practical and formal academic background in Art.  She studied art history and other art material in Europe and Canada.  The art work she creates is primarily done with computer imaging.  she draws and paints using filters, masks and fill.  The inspirations of her art comes from her personal life experiences as well as her personal preferences.


As well as creating digital art, she specializes in textiles and jewelry making which she has taught in college for many years before pursuing her own artistic desires.  She has many images but, I found the Voodoo Mama series to be the one I really liked the best.

                                                            

Week 4

 

      This is an image by an artist named Greg Klmat. He is a digital artist and composer from California. I like the above image because it is unique and playful.

week four artist

Susan Williams is an experimental artist that has some very interesting pieces.  I loved the masks she created.  The way she has added eyes to them gives the picture a more realistic look.  Then she makes it a bit abstract by adding other symbols is also nice and interesting.  Susan refers to her pictures as "Symbolic Imagery". 




Susan Williams got her inspiration for her masks in Mexico where she works and lives some of the year.  She uses her computer as her paint brush to achieve her end results.  The computer has helped her to get simple abstractions into more real looking works of art or as she calls her pictures "New Realities."






                                                          

                                                              

                                                          

week four Apophysis

Had fun with these.

week 3

Here is what I attempted to do for week three.  Not sure what went wrong.  I followed step by step but, not sure if Photoshop elements buttons are the same as the version in the instruction video.  Will continue to try it again over the weekend after I do week 4.  Sorry.  not sure why the pictures come over smaller than they are when I am creating them.






    

Week 3

Angel Estevez's  art work is amazing.  He was born in Spain and moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
He is an educator in Brazil and an enthusiast of the arts.  Angel is a self taught digital artist who works primarily with abstract art using two types of software.  One being Bryce and the other Photoshop. Some of his art work is made using both Bryce and Photoshop while, he makes some of his designs using only Photoshop.
 I can definitely see myself just sitting and day dreaming at his designs. The colors are bright and vibrant but, at the same time a bit relaxing.

Week 3

  I came across images by an artist named Paul Redfern. I thought the images were pretty cool and unusual. He creates his images using only IMac, a digital camera, and Adobe Photoshop. He gives the illusion that his work is created on a surface because it appears there is surface texture when in fact it's not. His images are interesting because it is not easy to understand what's going on in the image immediately. It takes more than a few second look. That is what attracted me to his work; after a few second glance at one of his images I still did not get it.

Here is an image by this artist:

week 2

The artist I found to be very interesting this week was Margarita Fishbeyn.  She was a graduate from the Toronto School of Art where she specialized in multimedia design. Margarita Has a Masters degree and P.H.D from Colombia University.  She also holds an honor from the Society of Contemporary Art.
Margarita draws directly into the computer.  She uses an illustration program which is like drawing and painting with traditional materials.  She currently uses a variety of styles that include modern, art nouveau and art deco to name a few.  Her artwork work is always vibrant and colorful.

week2 silk screen pictures

Hello,
My name is Jocelyn. I'm a 25 year old senior at Albertus; I will be graduating In May. I'm majoring In Sociology with a concentration In Social Work. I look forward to a great Mod.

current picture of myself. forgot to post with bio.

bio

My name is Jeannette Collins, I am graduating this May with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Sociology.  I returned to school after over twenty years to complete my studies.  I have 3 amazing sons ages 18, 22, and 28 and a wonderful husband of 29 years, who has been behind me in my journey to obtain my degree.
I currently live in Hamden, CT and work as a laboratory technician in New Haven.  I choose this degree because I really would like to work in the human services field.  Behavioral health is a field I would really like to work in, especially with underprivileged individuals especially youth.  I chose this class as an elective because it appears like it would be a fun class.  I love taking photos and to be able to edit and change them a bit seems like a lot of fun.

google images week 1

week 1

I chose Audra Geras as the artist I found interesting this week.  I currently work in the medical field and always wondered who painted or designed the great pictures you see on books and other medical supplies.  Audra is from Toronto and creates digital picture using a mixture of techniques.  a lot of her pictures are abstractions used as visual aids for meditations.  She also designs 3D animated videos.

Audra Geras is also well known as a medical artist.  she one of the people that design the pictures we all see in the medical field.  Her biomedical art is used globally by pharmaceutical and biomedical firms.  she gets her inspirations by exploring subjects like nature, spirituality, technology and the human mind.  www.audrageras



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Welcome to Introduction to Computer Art  I have been teaching Digital Photography I and II and The Museum Experience, Two Dimensional Design and Graphic Design I and II  in an online format for the past 9 years.... this is the 7th time I am offering Introduction to Computer Art in this online format as well...  The class revolves around creating a portfolio of images.  Your grade will be based on a combination of the portfolio you create and your participation in supporting this online learning experience and of each other. Class runs from March 17 - May 9th, 2013 .

If you wonder if you need to be a “geek” in order to succeed in this class, don’t worry.  I have designed it to be taken by non-artist-non-computer students.  The main issue is to have a good working computer with a high speed broadband connection and the willingness to dig in and have some fun.

The first week will be about getting up to speed in creating your accounts and getting your software image editing program working.

I don't use eLearning for my online classes as it is somewhat clunky in handling visual portfolios and blogging.   I host the syllabus on my website, jnevins.com.  Take a look around there to look at my teaching philosophy, syllabi, portfolios of my own work, tutorials and more...

Here is a link to the syllabus for this class: http://jnevins.com/introductiontocomputerart.htm

There you will find links to each project, the class blog and the class online portfolio at http://fotothing.com .  Each project is described in detail and I have created videos to accompany each project to take you through it step by step.  Pause them as you go along and replay as many times as you need to.

Important!.... click on the link in the email I will have blogger send you it will be from Jerry (me)...  There are instruction on creating an account at blogger and joining the class blog... you don't need to create your own blog... just join the class one..

Download and install your image editing program... Adobe gives you a full month free from http://Adobe.com/downloads  You can download Photoshop elements 11 first then follow up with a new download of Photoshop CS6 as that is expiring and get a full 8 weeks of use for free...  All other software you’ll need is also free.  Details are in the syllabus. If you prefer, install CS6 first as that is the full professional version of Photoshop. Adobe has recently come out with Photoshop CC, which can also be had for a free 30 day trial. All of the tools and procedures are there that I demonstrate in the videos.

I want you to have fun with this class and not get hung up on any of the technical stuff...  Once you get rolling, you'll see it is fun and very engaging...

Don't hesitate to email me anytime and I will get right back to you.  You can always call me at home if you are stuck! Looking forward to working with you over the next 8 weeks!