"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.
Hi! Here is my week 2 project working on incorporating color and line blocks to create art. This was inspired by Rothko's works but is ultimately my own design. I put some questions in the notes section of my code. Here is the link: Snap! Build Your Own Blocks
This is my week 2 assignment on incorporating color. I was inspired by a mix of rothko designs but ultimately wanted to base my design off of the Korean flag. I ended up going with something loosely using it's colors but changed the usual slanted lines in the flag for black blocks to fill more space. I mostly used the stamp function to place blocks where I wanted them to be. https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=ekim1211&ProjectName=week%202%20assignment
Here is my week 2 assignment! I took the path of stamping out the pattern I want before trying to code it, so right now I just have the pattern and I am going to slowly work on writing the code. I was trying to use mostly pastel colors with some big chunks of darker colors that purposefully felt a little out of place, but arrange them in a way that they still felt cohesive! link
For this weeks project I was originally inspired by Rothko, but eventually ended up creating something quite different from his style. I didn't use any code for this and instead just moved the sprite around and used the bar making block to create different shapes! Snap! Build Your Own Blocks
For my Week 2 Assignment, I wanted to try and combine some of the rectangular visuals of Mark Rothko with some of the circular/arch-like visuals from Frank Stella (i.e. Hagamatana II). I thought it could be interesting to have the rectangles literally bar off the circles in some fashion, though I'm still figuring out how I would want that to look!
For my week 2 assignment, I wanted to challenge myself with the idea of color randomization and repeating blocks across the screen. I am working on improving the visuals/color ranges per column to have some sense of unity, but will build upon this throughout the week. Link to week 3 assignment
This is my week 2 project: here. I first started by playing around with randomization of colors and block sizes to create the background. Then I based my design off of starry night. I liked the idea of having different shapes in different areas (the tree on the left, the buildings on the bottom right, and the stars on top).
For my assignment, I wanted to try and use Rothko's lines to depict landscapes. I want to experiment with the size of the bars so it does not look too repetitive.
Hi there! Here is my week 2 assignment-- I thought I would replicate Rothko's "White Cloud Over Purple" piece (White Cloud over Purple, 1957 by Mark Rothko) but with a simple twist of changing the color of the boxes and the background. I would love some suggestions on how to make it more complex!
I saw that in a lot of Rothko's work there seemed to be a heavy use of the gradient and I wanted to replicate it with a little bit of a twist creating blocks that carried that gradient. Accidentally deleted my sprite and it deleted all of my costumes and scripts with it, will have to redo but would probably need to in order to automate it anyway.
According to John Maloney, the lead developer for the initial version of Scratch, the first version of Scratch did not include an option to create new blocks. The Broadcast block was used as a workaround. For example, the red design in the code block below could broadcast “Go Pink” to initiate execution of the pink design.
The need for user-defined blocks was one impetus for development of Snap! One of the predecessors to Snap! was called “Build Your Own Blocks” (BYOB). The name was later changed to Snap!
User-defined blocks made it possible to write code in this way:
I really like the colors used and the simplicity. However, I think maybe adding something small in the top right corner could add a little bit of contrast to the design. Overall great work!
I really like this design, I think it is unique and I love the vibrant colors. I think it would be cool if you added a design in the middle and used your design as the background to something else. Great job!
I really like the touch of a "shadow" block! It adds a lot of depth to the piece that helps things stand out more. I'm also not sure if it was intentional, but with the yellow and red colors, it reminds me of pepperoni on pizza haha
The way you've organized and configured the automation for your blocks is super nice; I had never thought of creating a range of values blocks can go in the way you implemented yours.
In the context of color, do you think limiting the saturation/value of certain bars would be an improvement? I think that may be an angle of approach for your goal of unity, as having that bit of visual contrast in ways other than just hue may make things appear more visually distinct.
Here is my new version of the Week 2 Assignment - after Monday's class, I really liked how my classmates used the "Stamp" function. In this new version, I tried to add new colors and blocks to make it look like there is dimension.
Looks great! You've already done a good job of incorporating previous notes. The only thing I would change now is going through and cleaning up some of the custom block names. You have a few that looks like they were duplicated from previous blocks, and they have "(2)" at the end of them. It doesn't affect the code; it just relates back to making sure that everything has a meaningful name.
