Winter 2025/26, Periods A, B, C schedule

Week 12

Wed, Mar 4 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Tue, Mar 3 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Mon, Mar 2 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Week 11

Sat, Feb 28 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Sat, Feb 28 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Renaissance: This one is mine

These are 2 reference images

These are my 2 reference images

Gemini was able to capture the defining traits of the renaissance with a linear perspective guiding our way through the picture. It was able construct the architecture from Rome or Italy very well. What I think is convincing is that it used the “Tandem Redux” inscription on the top which in latin means reunion, also the adding of many sculptures truly adds to the renaissance vibe also I believe that the Ai understood the task including anatomy accurateIt humans with appropriate clothing and looks for the time. It struggled with making the image more engaging, in renaissance often something leads the eye around like a man pointing but the figures in my image seem very generic. Another thing that it struggled a lot with was to create good hazy transition of sfumato also the lighting is too directional and my last limitations which is due to the prompt is that the image seems very captured in one singular room while most renaissance paintings are more free. The convincing part shows how the high renaissance was very mathematical seeking precision with architecture and human bodies it also shows the limitations show the importance of lighting and transitions.

Impressionism: This is my image

Reference images:

Analysis: The Ai generated image captures the color palate very well using warm field summer clothing and a green background these colors compliment each other and create the image also is able to capture the moment of a everyday act which makes it more convincing. I believe the AI was used the brush work very well using short strokes to define the grass and make the individual grass blades melt into each other and also for the background especially the tree is was able to utilize the thick strokes and fast painting style, for the human it made the strokes a bit more defined making them pop. I think something it could work one is the shadows even though they aren’t very dark they still create a strong contrast to the field. A major surprise for me is that it was able to capture the social aspect so perfectly making the family in the middle of action, yet the image draws the focus more to the bottom on like other impressionism images which draw the attention to the middle. I believe that this shows that impressionism primarily revolves around warm colors invoking joy but also that it captures everyday snapshots

Pop Art. My Image:

References

Analysis. Pop art was the most awkward one to work with. It’a not that it didn’t understand the assignment clearly it just because there is so little detail involved in Pop you could notice when they were missing. Aside from that I think that the outcome turned out very well. It included things like the Ben-day dots very well but a thing that I noticed it that the ben day dots were not the thing that made up the skin tone rather just a inclusion on a already skin tone color. Also the thick lack and white outline came together quite well, just sadly a bit to perfect I believe it would be a bit bette when they are more uneven. The speech bubble was definitely a success it was easy to create and I believe is very convincing. I believe that overall Ai did a very good job but it wasn’t able to make it as mass-media styled as I hoped for.

Wed, Feb 25 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Impressionism: The movement emerged in the late 1860s and reached its peak in the 1870s and 1880, it started in Paris France, with key artists featuring Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Camille Pissarro influenced by the invention of camera and the photography. It distincts itself from others with the brushwork, featuring short but thicker strokes, to go away from details and focus on the subject often connected with everyday life things. For the coloring work the artists focused on colors that complement each other, even avoiding using black for shadows, leading us to another key aspect: the lighting often outside capturing the natural beauty and light from the sun. Instead of painting about philosophical big themes they captured everyday life scenes creating an atmosphere with a lot happening.

Prompt:Oil painting of a familie including a Mom, Dad and a few children, running through a yellow field towards the eye with visible yet not to visible brushstrokes, for the background include thick and visible brushstrokes that makes it look like a fast painted painting of Claude Monet and use a few houses to set the scene of the backgroubd, textured paint, use natural sunlight that makes it but has no dark shadows. use a bright, complementing color palette capturing the moment as if it was. a Childs core memory,  also color technique of Claude Monet. 

Wed, Feb 25 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Prompt: High realistic oil painting of a family sitting around a dinning table eating and laughing with realistic anatomy balance and symmetry of the bodies, add a window on a side with realistic and good lighting coming in from the side with shadow, natural color palette, very detailed, as the background create classical Florence or Roman architecture with a linear perspective going to the head of the table with a archway being in the back also add a cartouce saying  Tandem Redux to mark the reunion, add smooth brushwork that resembles works of Michelangelo with his hazy transition. 

Mon, Feb 23 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I found my final foto and what I especially like it the phrase Tandem Redux, tandem meaning partnership and acting together, and redux that we have come back together or revived symbolizing us coming back together.

Mon, Feb 23 HW – Image and description of completed homework

For homework I worked on a prompt and thought what my personal connection to the art will be and decided that I want to make a big feast that shows how I miss my friends and family from germany hoping that they will be able come visit me one day.

Week 10

Thu, Feb 19 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

In class and during consultation I printed out my 3 mandala layers and the found 3 fitting colors, sadly one of them got old so I found a new one and the painted them and let them air dry to the end of class .and we got left 15 min early

Thu, Feb 19 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I finished my pop art prompt and in my design u can see a woman wanting blonde hair not her brown hair symbolizing how now a days especially with the rise of social media every one wants to perfect or want more, yet the man in the background compliments her brown hair showing how one doesn’t have to force thing on oneself to be perfect or loved but to be oneself it the key\

Prompt: Create a high contrast pop art image of a woman in the style of Roy Lichtenstein mimicking commercial printing, featuring darker brown hair , bold red lips with a bright beige as skin color. Use very thick black outlines and a white outline around it, with a blue background. in a comic style speech bubble spell out I WISH in yellow on a red background. Make her looking into a mirror in which she sees her own reflection but with very blonde hair make her shirt a bright color. Add a person in the back ground complimenting her hair he aswell should be in a comic book/ roy lichtenstein style with bright distinct colors and a thick outline

Tue, Feb 17 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

During class I started with my first prompt and used it in illustrator but it gave me poor designs so I moved to Gemini and got some alot better design for my Pop art

Tue, Feb 17 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I did my pop art thing and I am ready to test out my prompts.

Week 9

Fri, Feb 13 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I finished my lamp and created another paragrpah

Fri, Feb 13 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I wrote my first essay on the renaissance and created some prompt ideas.

Wed, Feb 11 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I finished building my lamp only needing to wait for all the glue to harden and also finished my mandala porject with connecting all the lines and converting it to a 0.0001 thickness so I a able to print

Wed, Feb 11 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I worked a bit longer but eventually ran out of Ideas.

Mon, Feb 9 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I printed out my last panel. Then I sanded all of them to increase the contrast and started working on my lamp. While waiting for the glue to harden I kept on working on my layered manadala

Mon, Feb 9 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I kept on working on my luminary design. Fixing the outside and adding a lot of detail

Week 8

Fri, Feb 6 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I kept on working on the layered mandala and printed out 2 more panels, and sadly I have to print out my second panel again as it is lighter than the rest

Fri, Feb 6 HW – Image and description of completed homework

For homework I started my layered mandala setting up the swatches and creating a base.

Wed, Feb 4 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

finished my mandala design and also printed another layer of my Luminary lamp.

Wed, Feb 4 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I kept on working on my mandala design

Week 7

Wed, Jan 28 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I almost finished my Project

Wed, Jan 28 HW – Image and description of completed homework

had a friend help me figure it out and then kept on working for a bit and tweaked the sizes of the big spikes around

Mon, Jan 26 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Mon, Jan 26 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Did a bit but started to get confused and was unable to follow the instruction.

Week 6

Thu, Jan 22 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Did the first luminary panel and ran into some problems because I had the line work of my space ship 5 times meaning I redid the entire line work and then finished the first panel and also started the Mondelo projects

Thu, Jan 22 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I finished all the negative linework

Tue, Jan 20 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I did an other test print of the bottom left and as that turned out quite well I finshed the negative space on 3 out of the 4 panels

Tue, Jan 20 HW – Image and description of completed homework

did the line work and more contrasting on the bottom.

Week 5

Fri, Jan 16 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

did some more printed copies and tweaked some of the contrast

Fri, Jan 16 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I worked on the strong contrast between the colors and did the line work for the land scape excpet the bottom sector as I want to change some things there before do ing the line work.

Wed, Jan 14 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I forgot to make a foto sadly but I I contrasted the landscape before printing it out realizing that i need to increase the contrast by a lot

Wed, Jan 14 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I contrasted the moon and started some of the land scape

Mon, Jan 12 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I finnishd the moon and started a bit of contrasting and also printed out my spaceship which looked good

Mon, Jan 12 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I created a hole new picture based on my spaceship Idea with a new scenery and a moon to connect it all

Week 4

Thu, Jan 8 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I created a rocket and an UFO with an Alien inside it but ended it up deleting the UFO because it was as fitting and also started the line work for my image

Thu, Jan 8 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I played around with the idea of adding a skiing guy to the foto but did not get the results I was looking for and also was able to generate Lions head a well known south african mountain

Tue, Jan 6 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I was not there for class

Tue, Jan 6 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I generated a lot of different mountain ranges to find a good one and then I started to delete the some of the outline things but sadly forgot to make an image of it

Winter Break 12/19/25 – 1/5/26

Week 3

Wed, Dec 17 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

In class I had a fe problems with the panel layout and there for had to make a new one and also expermented with the idea of making capetown.

Wed, Dec 17 HW – Image and description of completed homework

After I brainstromed and tried a few Ideas in adobe I came to the conclusion that I create mountains as my luminary art, as I tried to create some rowing boats but failed miserably. I do this because the last time I saw my grandma we all went together hiking up a mountain. In the same trip we also climbed up the table mountain and lions head in south africa being able to see beutiful view from up there I fell in love with mountains.

Mon, Dec 15 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I was plying around with the creation of mountains to create a beautiful view of it and find some that I liked alot

Mon, Dec 15 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Week 2

Thu, Dec 11 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I choose to take the sipline one as I love the mountains a

Thu, Dec 11 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I worked on 2 new ideas for my luminary art one is a mountain with a zipline and the other a football field with the stadium in the background as I love nature and love to watch football games

Tues, Dec 9 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

skiing range for the luminary concept as skiing is one of my favorite activites and winter is coming soon.

Tues, Dec 9 HW – Image and description of completed homework

I completed .the outline for my homework

Week 1

Thu, Dec 6 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

In class I worked on the outline of my Image

Sat, Dec 6 HW – Image and description of completed homework

At homework time I played around with the grays shades so there would be a lot of variety in the wood cutting. I also had to get rid of some unwanted details.

Thu, Dec 4 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Thu, Dec 4 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

we generated a couple more images and made a outline of o

ur final one

Tue, Dec 2 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Tue, Dec 2 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

today we worked on a negative outline and did the negative tracing