WK2 Mirrored face and liquify

I have decided to dabble with mirrored face.  I picked one of my faves Jason Mamoa.  His two faces look so different. 

This is the original picture

This is the right side of his face. (below)

This is the Left side of his face,below.  I used liquify with eyes and eye brows.

WK2 Short Piece from MOCA

I selected Helga Schmitt Pullach who is from Germany.  Pullach taught herself the technical part of digital art and was encouraged by the contemporary literature she is familiar with.  Her father in law was the late Prof. Otto Michael Schmitt whose life work was fine art.  It is no surprise he was an influence to her art.  Her unique style is interesting she incorporates landscapes, architecture and contrast in colors.  She works with different variations that influence her new pieces.  She created a few weird pieces that she states are not wired but come from dream lands.  Her imagination is inventive.  I selected three pictures and in the three they have faces places somewhere in the image that is sort of weird but nice.

Art by John Michael Kearney

For this week I  John Micheal Kaerny  his art is very appealing and simple he uses strong  color to enhance his ideas . I love the painting structure its like they are dimensional to each other. He uses a broad brushes to created this beautiful pieces .

using the website

before 

lagorytim affect 

This artist is Bernd Dreilich and I found these pictures to be very different than others. The artist calls these surreal arts and was inspired by Werner Hornung. Bernd often used nakedness in their pictures, but it was not meant for sexual expression. It was more of a metaphor showing vulnerability of the soul and human emotions. 

I chose the mirror and liquefy project. I found this to be very interesting and enjoyable. It is a little difficult to navigate at first, but once you create one you end up getting the hang of it. I know I will be doing more of these pictures on my own. I try to navigate through photo shop daily to learn new ideas.

Due by 9am Monday morning

6-10 pieces as outlined in the syllabus... videos are linked there to follow.... You can do this using GIMP as well...


Week 2

Choose One Project from the following 3:

-Create Oil Painting effect with an action... Powerful one click changes (note, only do this if the oil painting filter is on your version of Photoshop. To find out, click Filter>stylize>oil painting... if it is absent or grayed out, then skip this.



-Create an "Andy Warhol" silk screen image...



-Create a mirrored face and liquefy it.... Filter>liquefy



Visit the Museum of Computer Art Write a short piece about an artist you found interesting at MOCA and post it to the blog. How did the artist create this work? What software was used? Include an image from that artist's portfolio. Do that by right clicking on the image and choose "save image as". A paragraph or two would be enough. What is the work about? How did they do it?


Grade:

A: Successfully created 6-10 interesting designs from from one of the above possibilities. Comments posted on blog in response to others work. You have taken the outline of the process and moved it in your own direction. MOCA review posted to blog.

B: One element of this week's requirements missing. or All elements there but showed little in the way of inventiveness..

C: Two elements are missing... i.e., no blog posts, No blog posts, no comments for participation component.

F: No work found for the week.

hand colored al logoritym

I choose me and my  boyfriend new year photo I used gray scale to change the original photo 

Week 1 MOCA Claudia Alves

This is a picture created by Claudia Alves which I felt all were very unique and interesting. Claudia uses "computer painting" which uses colors, brushes and wrist spatulas or freehand, as tools to make paintings. The original painting is printed by using print skill canvas, Tergo print , hand crafted ultra light and other printers. I very much enjoy her pictures as you they can be interpreted in many different ways.

Daniel Ferreira Bio

Hello my name is Daniel Ferreira I am a senior working towards my bachelor degree in Business Management. I play soccer when I am not at school or working and I currently work at a hedge fund under Building Management

Wk1 Hand Colored AI Algorithm

Hi,
I selected a photo of my husband and I.  I used the grayscale on GIMP to turn it into black and white.  I then uploaded the photo through the website and it added color to it.  It doesn't look like the original but close to it.  It looks a bit old fashioned now.
I will give you all variations, so you can see the way it transformed.
This is the original picture.

This is the grayscale I added through GIMP, to make it black and white.  This picture I submitted through the Algorithm website. 

This is what the Algorithm website produced.  It added color to it, making it a bit different than the original but still very nice.  I like that it looks weathered.

Wk1 Google Images

In the syllabus it says go to Google images and find a picture and play with filters.  I found two images.  I selected a Fiji beach scene and a cemetery scene.  I was thinking bright dark, dark bright, instead Fiji turned into a color sky with one of the filters.  The cemetery I played with contract, bright filter and tilted the photo a bit.  This was the first time I played around with GIMP. 

Hand Colored AI Algorithm

Here is a scan of my Grandfather in his French Foreign Legion uniform a year before he died of Pneumonia at the age of 27, around 1927.  Antibiotics had not yet been invented.  My mother and her twin sister were 3 yrs old.

This website will apply an artificial intelligence algorithm to "hand color" or "colorize it.

https://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/

Here is what the algo did with it...

Not great, but interesting nevertheless...  As one of your projects, try this yourself.  Take one of your pictures and in photoshop, make it grayscale by choosing Image>Mode>grayscale, save it as a .jpg and upload it to the site... then click download when there after a few seconds.....

You may click on an image here to expand it to full screen then either hit "esc" (escape key) or the "x" in the upper right side to return to the normal view.

Peter Mac Lane

I was in the Moca and I found Peter Mac lane I choose him for so many reason. he's work is really vibrant  and enjoyable to see . it remind me of the French building . He uses cold color and warm color to describe the setting of the drawing .The work also have a secondary function in helping people navigate the art work.bright color make the art more interesting and enjoyable . 

Hello my name is Aida Sarr I am a senior working toward my bachelor degree in biology . I used to play lacrosse at Albertus Magnus college women lacrosse team . I work at the school library as a work study student . I love art

What is due this week?

It is easy to track what is due each week by clicking on the "Week by Week Checklist" linked in the upper right side of the blog.

So far just one student has posted a bio with an image and done a short review of a digital artist as an independent post.  Each element counts as one attendance record.

There were two short bios posted incorrectly as comments instead of independent posts...

Here is a copy of the Week 1 checklist:

Action is the foundational key to all success. 
::: Pablo Picasso :::


Assignments:

Week 1

-Introductory Bio posted to class blog
-Install Software


-Visit the Museum of Computer Art Write a short piece about an artist you found interesting at MOCA and post it to the blog. How did the artist create this work? What software was used? Include an image from that artist's portfolio. Do that by right clicking on the image and choose "save image as". A paragraph or two would be enough. What is the work about? How did they do it?

Criteria for weekly grade:

A: Bio positive. Comments posted on blog in response to others work. MOCA review posted with image.

B: One element of this week's requirements missing.

C: Two elements are missing... i.e., no bio, but MOCA review posted to blog.

F: No work found for the week.

I will take attendance first thing Monday morning.

Please Watch This

Take a look at this TEDx presentation on AI and generative design as the certain future we are moving into. 

https://youtu.be/aR5N2Jl8k14

Wk1 Short Piece from MOCA

I was in the MOCA and found Lisle Drake.  I selected Lisle Drake because the art made me think of Alice in Wonderland.  I am a partial fan to abstract art.  Although I believe Drake’s art fall into abstract.  I enjoyed the 10 picture selection the artist posted in MOCA.  I found the artist Drake even more interesting when I read how they we’re influenced.   The artist work is based on their dreams.  In some of their art pieces you can detect texture and dimension.  It could be the various media forms they use, which is quite creative.  She uses pen, ink on paper to batik, fabric, photoshop, painter or illustrator on Wacom.

   

Wk1 First post

Hi All,

My name is Paula, I am a mother of two grown young ladies.  I am a senior working toward a Bachelors degree in business management.  I currently work for Yale New Haven Health Systems.  I haven't had anytime for hobbies but I love arts, crafts, painting and theatre.  I don't know how to post pictures on this blog but as soon as I learn I will.

I took a picture of myself.  My reflection through a lotion cap.

Welcome Everyone!

Welcome to Introduction to Computer Art  I have been teaching Digital Photography I and II and The Museum Experience, Two Dimensional Design and Graphic Design I and II  in an online format for the past 12 years.... this is the 11th time I am offering Introduction to Computer Art in this online format as well...  The class revolves around creating a portfolio of images.  Your grade will be based on a combination of the portfolio you create and your participation in supporting this online learning experience and of each other. Class runs from January 14 - March 6, 2019.

If you wonder if you need to be a “geek” in order to succeed in this class, don’t worry.  I have designed it to be taken by non-artist-non-computer students.  The main issue is to have a good working computer with a high speed broadband connection and the willingness to dig in and have some fun.  If you don't have a decent Windows or Apple Computer, you can work on any public computer at school.... they all have Photoshop.  The Lab in Aquinas Hall 315 has all of the programs we will be using. All of the computers in the Library also have Photoshop.

The first week will be about getting up to speed in creating your accounts and getting your software image editing program working.

I don't use eLearning for my online classes as it is somewhat clunky in handling visual portfolios and blogging.   I host the syllabus on my website, jnevins.com.  Take a look around there to look at my teaching philosophy, syllabi, portfolios of my own work, tutorials and more...

Here is a link to the syllabus for this class: http://jnevins.com/introductiontocomputerart.htm

There you will find links to each project, the class blog  Each project is described in detail and I have created videos to accompany each project to take you through it step by step.  Pause them as you go along and replay as many times as you need to.

Important!.... click on the link in the email I will have blogger send you it will be from Jerry (me)...  There are instruction on creating an account at blogger and joining the class blog... you don't need to create your own blog... just join the class one..

Download and install your image editing program... Adobe has moved to a cloud format and now only has a 7 day free trial.  After that, you can rent the program for $9.99/month.  http://Adobe.com/downloads.  If you have a PC at home, there is a free version of CS2 at Adobe and is good forever... it is older but will work just fine for this class. How to get it is here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-get-photoshop-for-free/  All other software you’ll need is also free.  Details are in the syllabus.

I want you to have fun with this class and not get hung up on any of the technical stuff...  Once you get rolling, you'll see it is fun and very engaging...

Don't hesitate to email me anytime and I will get right back to you.  You can always call me at home if you are stuck! Looking forward to working with you over the next 8 weeks!

With my wife, Debbie a couple of years ago in France....