Sonni Final

Intro:

Now that we've been studying primary and secondary colors and the street art of Sonni, it's time you made your own!  On a large document, you'll be creating an original piece of artwork in the STYLE of Sonni of @sonnistudios!

Task:

On a letter-sized (portrait or landscape), 300ppi document, create your own Sonni-style artwork.  You MUST include at least 4 characters, 2 of which must be totally new.  1 of these new characters MUST be in the shape of an object that Sonni hasn't yet created (for example, Sonni has created characters based on houses and boomboxes).

Review: 

•  4 characters at least
  • 2 original characters in the style of Sonni
    • 1 new object turned into a Sonni-style character

Constraints:

• Your artwork must fit the style and look of Sonni
• Your background must be a color.  No black or white backgrounds
• Must use only primary (and some secondary colors)
• Must make a great effort to show your understanding of Sonni's style

Sonni Practice: Tetris Pieces

Choose 1 (or more, depending how far you get) piece from the piece below.  Using our specs, copy the piece as closely as possible.

SIZES

• 5 in x 5 in
• 5 in x 7 in
• 5 in x 10 in

LINE SIZE

•   30 px

  COLOR HEX CODES

blue: 1d75bd

red: ed1b24

yellow: fbdd01

ORIGINAL ART

CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE

Element of Art: Lines

Corita Kent Complementary Color Art

Today for its Google doodle, Google chose to feature the art and life of artist Corita Kent.  To celebrate the work of Ms. Kent, we'll be using COMPLEMENTARY color pairs of your choice to create a piece of art inspired by Kent.  Additionally, we'll use her own words as the text for these pieces.

Corita Kent's "Rules"

Rule I

FIND A PLACE YOU TRUST AND THEN TRY TRUSTING IT FOR A WHILE.

Rule 2

GENERAL DUTIES OF A STUDENT:

PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR TEACHER.

PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS.

Rule 3

GENERAL DUTIES OF A TEACHER:

PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR STUDENTS.

Rule 4

CONSIDER EVERYTHING AN EXPERIMENT.

Rule 5

BE SELF DISCIPLINED. THIS MEANS

FINDING SOMEONE WISE OR SMART AND

CHOOSING TO FOLLOW THEM.

TO BE DISCIPLINED IS TO FOLLOW IN A GOOD WAY.

TO BE SELF DISCIPLINED IS TO FOLLOW IN A BETTER WAY.

Rule 6

NOTHING IS A MISTAKE. THERE’S NO WIN AND

NO FAIL. THERE’S ONLY MAKE.

Rule 7

The only rule is work.

IF YOU WORK IT WILL LEAD TO SOMETHING.

IT’S THE PEOPLE WHO DO ALL OF THE WORK ALL THE TIME

WHO EVENTUALLY CATCH ON TO THINGS.

Rule 8

DON’T TRY TO CREATE AND ANALYZE AT THE

SAME TIME. THEY’RE DIFFERENT PROCESSES.

Rule 9

BE HAPPY WHENEVER YOU CAN MANAGE IT.

ENJOY YOURSELF. IT’S LIGHTER THAN YOU

THINK.

Rule 10

"WE’RE BREAKING ALL OF THE RULES. EVEN

OUR OWN RULES. AND HOW DO WE DO THAT

BY LEAVING PLENTY OF ROOM FOR X QUANTITIES." JOHN CAGE

HELPFUL HINTS: ALWAYS BE AROUND. COME OR GO TO EVERY- THING. ALWAYS GO TO CLASSES. READ ANYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. LOOK AT MOVIES CAREFULLY, OFTEN. SAVE EVERYTHING IT MIGHT COME IN HANDY LATER. THERE SHOULD BE NEW RULES NEXT WEEK.

Examples of Kent's work:

Color Scheme Abstract Art

Intro:

In art and design, the ways groups of colors are used are called COLOR SCHEMES.  There are many different types of color schemes, but we'll focus on 5 for this:

• Primary - red, blue, yellow
• Secondary - orange, purple, green
• Complementary - hues across each other on the color wheel (choose one set of two)
• Monochromatic - uses 1 hue (color), many values (lightness and darkness)
• Analogous - uses 3 hues found next to each other on the color wheel (use only 3)

Process:

• Take your paper and draw at least 15 lines and shapes that overlap and go off the edge of the page.
• Fold your paper 3 times at strange angles.
• Unfold your paper.
• In 5 of the sections, color the spaces using each of the above color schemes.
• In the 6th section, you can use a color scheme of your choice.
• At the end, use a marker to trace over your original pencil lines.