Art 131-Light

Autumn Quarter 2003
M/W 8:30am-11:20am
Instructor: Karen Gutowsky

Light

Materials: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Dreamweaver, digital photos

To Look At:
Vermeer
Caravaggio
Rembrandt

Technical Explorations:
–Painting with light
–Projection vs. printing
–Working with your own photographic sources
–Exploring color relationships
–Levels & Curves
–Hue & Saturation
–Color Balance

Project:
Using either a layer in Photoshop or the cloning process in Painter, develop a painting that starts with a dark surface and builds in the light. The formal intention is to look at the construction of space using light.

As inspiration, take photographs of a dark interior space, preferably lit with a single light source (window/single lamp). Experiment with the camera's exposure settings and take without a flash. Frame image to 1000 pixels x 700 pixels

Timeline:
October 29th–Wednesday bring 4-6 digital photos which demonstrate light as focal point.

November 3rd–Monday bring two+ digital sketches of color assignment. Can fit on 8 1/2” x 11” output.

November 10th–Monday post the image at a full browser window size (1000x700) to your website. We will project them for final critique.

Reference Material

If you do not have the color profiles for the laser printer in the SOACC:

Downloading printer profiles for the Phaser 7700:

go to xerox.com

click on Support & Drivers

enter "Phaser 7700" in the search box

The following three menus choose (printer) "Phaser 7700"; (platform) "Mac OSX"; and (files) "All Files" now select "go to downloads"

A long list of drivers will appear. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page, then up slightly to find
"7700_ColorSync.sea.hqx"

The file will download to your desktop. Double click on the .sea (self extracting archive) and it will unzip/unstuff a folder on your desktop. Open the ICC profiles folder and copy (Edit>Copy) the two folders inside.

Now, go to the Finder and Double click on the Mac HD.

In OS X, Open this chain of folders:
Library > Application Support > Adobe > Color > Profiles

and paste the two ICC profiles inside. They should show up immediately in the Proof>Custom dialog in Photoshop.