Modern Landscape
[preview-not due until April 12]
•Overview
–Create a fine art piece that depicts or evokes a modern landscape. Use a variety of types of mark-making, at least in part by combining 2D raster and geometric elements
•Technical details
–Final pieces must be computer files (i.e., not paintings or other media)
–Final pieces can be viewed on screen or printed
–Yes, you can scan in things to get more mark variety (drawings, paintings, whatever) but you still need to use at least two types of graphics software as well—2D raster and vector, or raster and 3D, etc.
–No size constraints. If file is over 20MB make me a CD or email me for a ftp address.
–Does not have to be representational
•Advice
–Unlike the more graphic design-oriented projects we have done to date, you do not need to begin with any specific “message” you want to convey.
–Start with a landscape or landscape object that appeals to you--even if you don't know why. You can go on-site and photograph it with a digital camera, get pictures from the Web, or draw things and scan them in.
–When you reach stopping points in the work, then take time to sit back and think about what it might be saying and whether it's working. At these points you can employ the concepts from semiotics and design that we covered in class.  Don’t analyze while you work!