BACKGROUND

• We’ve learned how to create monochromatic palettes of color, and how to find the compliment of a color by looking at the color wheel.
• We’ve learned that creating shapes creates new shapes of negative space.
• We’ve learned some basics about text, fonts and how to manipulate them in photoshop.

OBJECTIVE

Combining the concepts that you’ve learned, you will spend two class sessions creating an abstract composition using letter forms as the basic structure of your project.

FORMAT

Begin with a canvas that is either 1152 x 864 or 864 x 1152 pixels.
[Web Preset]

GUIDELINE

Divide & Conquer. Using the shapes of letter forms, divide your canvas into shapes of positive and negative shape. Scale two or three letters so that parts of them touch opposite sides of your frame. Be aware of where the forms overlap and think of these areas as shapes of their own.

Break these new shapes that you’ve created into separate layers.

Begin to modify the colors of the shapes, remembering to control your use of color so that elements work together effectively.

Use letter forms and text to create varying texture. Refer to the ideas that you learned from the last exercise.

EXPLORE & EXPERIMENT

Rearrange layers, move layers, duplicate and alter, change blending modes, change opacity, adjust colors etc.

Remember that the goal is to create a cohesive composition, one where the parts and pieces all work together to create a whole image.

I expect that all the spaces outside of your letter-forms are broken into separate layers and manipulated independent of each other.