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Crafts

Students are presently learning about the elements of design and how they are used to create and 
critique art. 

Present element: Shape and space

Students will define interesting space by manipulating geometric and organic shapes

Fashion I and II

Students in Fashion I are presently learning how to draw the 9-head scale croqui 

Present drawing: Side, back

Students will create the forms on a 9-head scale template

Students in Fashion II are learning how to create shadow by cross hatching and blending

Present assignment: Graduated shadow

Students will demonstrate they can shadow in dimension, clothing, hair and textiles. 
Students will work their way through all examples and move to shading in color. 

Digital Photo

Students are preserntly learning about resolution and editing the color of a photo

Present exercise: Calculating resolutiong manually and in photoshop

Students will demonstrate they can identify the size of a photo in an internet search, as well as, 
manipulate the size of the photo without disrupting the integrity

Digital Design

Students are presently learning about the anatomy of typography and how to employ creativitiy 
in graphic design

Present exercise: Creating ga textile design from one letter form

Students watched video interviews with David Carson and Milton Glaser; 
based on class dicussions and videos students will create a design which 
will employ traditional techniques of transfer and inking

Digital Literacy

Class has been set up in groups. Student will be creating a marketing plan for a new product as groups throughout 
the semester by use of google docs/cloud

Present project: Students are composing a proposal letter to a company to promote thier 
group product. The studets will work together with their group on this project.