Tag: drawing

Graphic Collage – Draft

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hannahatkent's avatarHannah at Kent

The creative process of this project began with the Photo Collection assignment. Gathering photo’s I might use in my collage got me thinking about photo’s I’ve taken that would really speak about my character.

Each element contributes to the overall narrative of this blog because it’s pieces of my life that make me who I am today, tomorrow and yesterday. The pink and purple sky is from a photo I took of a sunset at Kent State. The skyline is a photo I took on top of a parking garage in Columbus, my hometown, and the middle photo is of me in Maryland this past summer.

I created this collage by first drawing out the vision I had in my head, making sure to outline each photo I wished to use and and labeling what photo goes where so I didn’t get confused when I started the Photoshop process.

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Shape, texture and form

art, art professor, design, drawing assignment, drawing shapes and texture, John Foster Dyess, painting of Vegetables, St. Louis Community Collage at Meramec, still life painting, student-art, teaching-art, tomatoes and peppers painting

johndyess's avatarJournal of Seeing by John Dyess

tomatoes and peppers This is another “birds eye view” of a still life that I created in ink and liquid acrylic paint in 2010.

I have been  an adjunct professor  teaching art at St. Louis Community College at Meramec  since 1997.
A class I teach is “Drawing for Graphics” ,which I call drawing ideas for graphic design. It was the first class that I taught at Meramec and since 1997 I have changed the assignments many times.
One of my early assignments in this class was titled “Drawing textures and shapes. One part of this assignment was to draw four  rectangle  shapes
4″ wide x 2” high and within those rectangle shapes draw a square, triangle, rectangle and circle. The students were to overlap shapes to create foreground, middle ground and background. They were to draw within the shapes texture and tone to create depth. Below is one of the best solutions to…

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