"Creating Art & Music" is an introductory course designed to introduce creative activities in the context of art and music. Thus far the course has been taught at the middle school, high school, community college, and university level (with appropriate adaptations for each level). Each week this fall, students in the course are posting their projects in this strand of the Snap! forum. Here's a link to the course materials:
This week's module is titled "Exploring Color". In it, we will explore the works of color field painings created by abstract impressionist painters like Clyfford Still, Kenneth Noland, and perhaps most famously, Mark Rothko. We will also explore different methods for manipulating colors in snap using Color Filters.
The assignment for this week is to begin by creating color field painting using the pen and motion command blocks. Then, write a program that will procedurally generate that painting. Possible extensions include writing a program that will select variables from a list to randomize the appearance of the painting or creating color filters to create different versions of the same painting.
Save your program to the cloud, share it so that others will be able to access it, and then post the link as a reply in this strand.
Please provide contextual information for your project, letting us know whether you are replicating an existing painting or choosing to create an original work. If you are creating an original work, please let us know if any particular artists or works of arts have inspired your creation.
Question: I've seen quite a few of these topics in my few years of being a Snap! user, but if you don't mind me asking, who's the target audience for these posts? Teachers?
Audience 1: Students enrolled in a course we teach at the University of Virginia, EDIS 2200: Creating Art, Music, and Games. The course is an elective in the computer science department, though there are no pre-requisites, so students from across the university frequently enroll. We designed the course to combine computer science and the arts in a way that engages a broader audience and allows for more creative expression.
Audience 2: The broader Snap and educational communities. We are strong believers in open-source education; if teachers, students, or other forum users want to participate in the lessons and assignments, we welcome them. Adaptations can be made to teach the material this course covers for almost any instruction level or setting. All instructional content for each lesson -- including instructional texts and videos as well as code snippets and samples of projects from past semesters -- is linked in the forum post for each module.
We require our students to post to the forum so that they learn about the larger Snap ecosystem and have the opportunity to interact with users and developers around the world. We also believe that communities are strengthened when people actively participate in them, so we hope that some of what we're doing may inspire others to develop projects of their own.
Y'all might be interested in Unit 1, Lab 3 of our BJC curriculum. The main "story line" of the lab is just about boring regular polygons, but if you click on the "Take It Further" links on each page you'll find my attempts at replicating works by Malevich, Thomas (not very convincingly), Kandinsky, and Albers.
Hi! I created a color field design inspired by Rocor's Voyage. I added slant bars to directly emphasize the clash of opposing colors, but holding a sector on the rear end that is in more symphony with the background. The triangle links the three colors together, constructing a more gradual change.
Hey! Your project looks really intriguing, especially with the diamond shape and color spectrum. I think it's really impressive how you combined these elements together. I recently worked on a project involving color gradients, and I found it quite challenging to get the effect just right, but looking at the way coded helped me reflect and inspired mine!
Hi, for this weeks assignment I created a simple "painting" inspired by abstract art. Using multiple sprites I created a "chain pattern" that changes color with each link. Here is the link to my work: Week 3 Assignment - Spencer Lewis
For this week's assignment I created a painting inspired by Rothko. I utilized different pen sizes to create three stripes across the screen of varying sizes and used the same strategy to create a similar pattern vertically as well.
I created a color field design, although it wasn't based on a particular artist or painting. Instead, I wanted to deviate from "traditional" color field paintings by using brighter colors and shapes other than squares and rectangles. I created triangles and circles in different colors, then stamped those shapes on the stage in a psuedo-symmetric pattern. Then, I made two two-toned rectangles that cross each other over the cyan triangle and yellow circle in the middle. I intentionally flipped the colors when drawing each line to give the illusion of depth.
I created my project as a color field design inspired by the ones from Rothko. I took a picture of a part of my room wall and I tried to abstractify it with just the basic shapes and colors. Most of the blocks of color are just rectangles, since the things on my wall are posters and postcards but I had one fake plant that I just simplified using a line and two circles.
Edit: fixed the link!
I created this project on my own focusing on just using one main shape -- rectangles. I wanted to only use this whether it be shown in the horizontal and vertical position. First, I just wanted to see where I wanted to place these blocks around the canvas. Here, I've just completed what I want to replicate for when I eventually make this into a true program. Looking back on how many blocks I used and there not being a true pattern, I'm curious if the next step of creating a program will be difficult. I also chose these colors because I associate it with a geometrical duct tape pattern I used to use when I was a child. It included my favorite color pink, and I felt like the orange and yellow soften the aggressiveness/boldness of the pink. https://snap.berkeley.edu/project?username=zdb3qg&projectname=Art%20--%20Assignment%202
