The Impressionist art movement is one of my favorites! I was lucky enough to visit the home of Claude Monet when I visited France in high school and took an art history class on Impressionists during my study abroad in London.
Before you begin, I want you to do a little research on Impressionism. When you can answer these questions, call me over and I'll give you the thumbs up to start. You can take notes if you like.
- Where did Impressionism start?
- When did it start?
- Name at least three famous Impressionist painters.
- What made it different? Be able to explain at least three qualities that make a painting Impressionist in style.
- Some of you are ready to start now and others aren't
- It is good for you to learn how to follow an online tutorial to learn more about Photoshop <-- this is how I've learned!
The Graphics.com tutorial is great. It gives you step by step directions with helpful screenshots along the way. If you get stuck, naturally I'm happy to help you.
Requirements:
- choose a photo that you (or someone in this class) took - no borrowing pictures from the web for this one
- can be still life, landscape, or portrait...Impressionist painters did all of these!
- if you want to shoot something special for this, go ahead, especially if you're one of those people who finished your pop art early!
- sign your name in a script font in the bottom right hand corner
- make your "painting" look like it's hanging in a museum! download a Photoshop frame OR dump your photo into Pixie and frame it (there are a bunch in a stickers folder called frames)
- save your project as a JPEG in the student common folder and print a copy for me
Here are some examples from last year:
Katharine W.
Marie-Louise
Harrison Y.
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