10/30/13

All classes:  

National PTA Reflections® Contest:  Theme: “Believe, Dream, Inspire”
Arts Categories: There are six arts categories – dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography and visual arts. Students may enter the Reflections program in one or more arts categories with no limit to the amount of entries in a single category.
General Rules     Visual Arts Rules     Photography Rules     Entry Form

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Continue team work on game board.
• Did you know you can download fonts?  If you have a team members who are waiting for their job to start,  have them look up four or five different fonts you might be able to use in the title of your game.  Choosing several different varieties will allow the team to decide on the one that best fits the theme.
• To put the fonts in Illustrator, double click the zip file, then double click the font and click "install."  When you look at the font list in Illustrator you should see it there.

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: Vintage Circus Poster

What you'll learn:  accessing and using different types of resources from the web
What you'll do:

 Create the Vintage Circus Poster shown in this tutorial. 
Look at the "Resources" tab for brushes and graphics you can use.
You have two days to complete the tutorial.

• Extra Practice:  Give this guy a face.  First, copy him and paste him into Photoshop.  Then, do a search for "eye" and use it to replace both eyes on the face.  Do the same for nose and ears.  Add anything else you like.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Download Tiny Tap
• Work with Mrs. Miller to brainstorm "rooms"