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Art Additions Select an __appropriate__ work of art and add yourself or someone you know. You may simply add a person's head or place an entire person in a painting. Use the links to find an appropriate work of art. Be sure to credit the original artist and his or her work of art. > [|WebMuseum, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/, Famous Artworks Exhibition] > [|The Artchive, http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm]

Transforming American Gothic For this project you will download an image of Grant Wood's painting //American Gothic// and use the tools available in GIMPto trace and then transform the image. Click on the link below to download an image of //American Gothic//. When you get to the web page displaying American Gothic hold the mouse down on the image. When the option to "copy image" appears select it. Then you will launch GIMP. In the File menu you will see a "From Clipboard" option. Choose that option and a new file will be created with the image of American Gothic. Create a new layer by selecting "New Layer" from the Layer menu. Call the new layer **Drawing** and be sure you are working on the **Drawing** layer while you are copying the image. When your drawing is complete you will make a copy of your drawing and use the painting tools to transform //American Gothic//.



Why is this painting called Gothic? Learn more about American Gothic by Grant Wood Download the image.
 * The Art Institute of Chicago || NPR on American Gothic ||

Transforming Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most famous paintings. Many artists have made copies of it. For this project you will copy the image of Mona Lisa and use the tools available in GIMP to transform Mona Lisa. Then you will launch GIMP. In the File menu choose a new file and open the image of Mona Lisa. Create a new layer by selecting "New Layer" from the Layer menu. You are now ready to make a contour line copy of Mona Lisa. When your drawing is complete you will make a copy of your drawing and use the painting tools to transform the Mona Lisa.

Get a large copy of the Mona Lisa in my shared file [| The Mona Lisa]
 * [|To learn more about the Mona Lisa click here.] ||

Transforming The Scream

For this project you will copy the image of The Scream and use the tools available in GIMP to transform The Scream. Scroll down for the large version of The Scream and download the image by holding the mouse down on the image. When the option to "copy image" appears select it. Open a new file with the image of The Scream. Create a new layer by selecting "New Layer" from the Layer menu. You are now ready to make a contour line copy of The Scream. When your drawing is complete you will make a copy of your drawing and use the painting tools to transform the The Scream. Get a large copy of The Scream in my shared file [| The Scream]

Colorizing an Image This project introduces you to image manipulation and the work of Ansel Adams.

Ansel Adams, born in San Francisco in 1902, was an American landscape photographer. In 1916, at the age of 14, a trip to Yosemite, California inspired him to to photograph the majesty of the American wilderness. He took pictures of mountains, deserts, enormous clouds, and towering trees. Adams' first exhibition was in San Francisco in 1939. He was educated at Yale University and started the first college department in photography. Adams adopted Paul Strand's "straight photography" as his medium of expression. In 1932 he formed Group f/64 with Edward Weston and other proponents of straight photography, establishing photography as an art form. Adams was an ardent conservationist and served as director of Sierra Club from 1936 to 1973. He died in 1984. [|Ansel Adams Landscapes] [|The History Place - Best of Ansel Adams] - Featuring 25 photographs from American scenic photographer Ansel Adams, a pioneer in the movement to preserve the wilderness and one of the first to promote photography as an art form. The photos were taken 1933-1942. [|Ansel Adams Biography] [|Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club] - A brief Biography of Ansel Adams and his work with the Sierra Club.

Digital Post-Impressionist Painting  For this project you will select one of your photographs, create a new or several new layers and paint on those layers, over your photograph, in the style of the Impressionists. When you have completed your painting you may delete or show the photograph layer View from the artist’s window at Eragny by Camille Pissaro, 1886 The Restaurant de la Sirene at Asnieres by Vincent Van Gogh, 1887

Impressionist techniques: 1. Short, thick strokes of paint in a sketchy way that allows the painter to capture and emphasize the essence of the subject rather than its details. 2. Brush strokes are visible on the canvas. 3. Colors used with as little pigment mixing as possible, allowing the eye of the viewer to optically mix the colors as he or she looked at the canvas. This provides a vibrant experience for the viewer. 4. Impressionists painted wet paint into the wet paint instead of waiting for previous layers to dry. This produced softer edges and intermingling of color. 5. The impressionists put paint down thickly and did not rely upon layering. 6. Impressionists emphasized aspects of the play of natural light, including how colors reflect from object to object. 7. In outdoor paintings, they boldly painted shadows with the blue of the sky as it reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness and openness. 8. Impressionists worked "en plein air" (outdoors).

Photography and Impressionism When impressionism began, there was interest among artists in ordinary subject matter. Photography, a new method of capturing images, also became available. Photography was gaining popularity and as cameras became more portable, photographs became more candid. Photography inspired impressionists to capture the moment, not only in the fleeting lights of a landscape, but in the day-to-day lives of people. Photography and popular Japanese art prints (Japonism) helped introduce impressionists to odd "snapshot" angles, and unconventional compositions. To learn more about Impressionism go to:[| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism], the source for the above list on techniques and statement about photography.[| http://www.impressionism.org/]