FIELD TRIP: Saturday, February 21
Field Trip Schedule
FIELD TRIP: Tuesday, April 28 Crown Point Press Mark Emerson's printmaking class will meet at Crown Point Press, 20 Hawthorne St., San Francisco at 11 am. Crown Point is near San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and nearby galleries, as listed in the prior field trip.
Make up assignment if unable to attend a Field trip:
Two page paper researching a digital printmaking technique that combines digital process with traditional printmaking process or an extra digital image (turn in file and printed output on quality paper).
Questionnaire
Standard Rubric for Art Studio Courses
Introduction to course: syllabus, lab, texts, materials.
Print lab tour. Contemporary print sampleson line.
Introduction to using vector and raster software.

Project 1 Continued
Complete raster image(s) for printing

Project 1 Continued
Print black & white images with three alternate color backgrounds as proofs for final images.
Read: Polyester Lithography handouts in class folder: Art 144 / Handouts / Polyester Lithography

Project 1 Continued
Put in your Work folder / "Your 3 Initials Project 1" folder:
Includes all files associated with the making of your prints: original high resolution files, resized prints, drawing and photo research. Do not flatten layers.

Monday

Complete Project 1 and back up Project 1 folder to your Work folder
Printing Pronto Plates and Kadema 104 printing/ Postponed until supplies arrive
Create "Your 3 Initials Illustrator Tutorials" folder inside your Work folder.
Adobe Illustrator pen tool practice: Handouts / Illustrator Tutorials / ___Copy to Desktop / 1_Paths.ai, 2_Shapes.ai (practice colors, strokes and fills), 3_Maze.ai
and 6.zenCS2.ai, 7.zenCS2.ai, 8.zenCS2.ai

Printing in Kadema 104 / Postponed until supplies arrive
Drawing tutorial, Adobe Illustrator / Choice of subject matter from photo self-portrait or images provided by instructor.
Bring images, sketches and ideas for Project 2 to class next Monday.
Read: "Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book" p. 2-88

Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Project 2 development.
Create a" Your 3 initials Project 2" folder in your Work folder for all Project 2 research and images.
Read: "Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book" p. 90-163

Adobe Illustrator tutorials
Project 2: 2 completed images for digital printing output. 1 print @ 11" x 15" plus 1 large format print
Bring composition to class Monday for template in Illustrator
Read: "Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book" p. 214 - 261

Project 2 Tutorials Continued

Project 2 Tutorials Continued
Complete Illustrator tutorials & back up "Your 3 Initials Illustrator Tutorials" folder to your Work folder.
Bring images / ideas for Project 2 next week.

Turn in Illustrator Tutorials
Begin Project 2 / Large format Illustrator print
Print Pronto plates for two-color print

Project 2 Continued outside class
Project 1 Printing in Kadema 104 print lab

Project 2 Continued outside class
Project 1 Printing in Kadema 104 print lab

Project 2 Continued outside class
Project 1 Printing in Kadema 104 print lab
SATURDAY, 3/21/09 / Open Print Lab in Kadema 104 /
10 am to 2 pm

Project 2 Continued
READ: The Complete Printmaker, p.46 - 64 and 131 - 142

Project 3 Guidelines: Mixed media printing, digital and traditional relief printing methods: 1 print @ size determined by student.
Homework: Build collagraph over Recess for printing next class.

No Class: Spring Recess

No Class: Spring Recess

Turn in Project 1 Print Editions
Turn in Project 2 for Digital Printing. Project 2 and Illustrator Tutorials due in Drop Box for grading.

Project 3 / Mixed Media Printing /Collagraph
Work in print lab when using traditional materials.
Print and develop Project 3 in printmaking lab. Bring extra texture making items, Elmer's glue, acrylic medium, extra matt board or card board, rubber gloves, paper towels.

Print Project 3 in printmaking lab continued

Print Project 3 in printmaking lab continued
Project 4 (Final Project) sketches and proposals due

Project 3 & 4 Continued
Student / Teacher Conference Schedule
Begin Project 4 : Final self-initiated project

Continue Projects 3 and 4.
Professor Wiggins will not be in class today. Students may get key from the Art Office for Kadema print lab.
Photograph collagraph plate, blind embossment, and black and white print for completing Project 3 in the computer lab.

Student / Teacher Conferences / Monday Schedule
Class meets in Mariposa 1007 today.
Projects 3 & 4 Continued

Project 4 Continued
Turn in Project 3