Images to Download: January 21

 Download the full resolution version of each image below into the "Downloads" folder in your "Assignment 1" folder:

Assignment #1 (February 6)

5 Digital Collage Images

• Search the Internet for LARGE digital images that you would like to cut and paste into a pastiche collage.
• Each collage should have some sort of background (either an image, a pattern, or a solid color) onto which you have pasted elements from other images in order to create a unique and multi-layered composition.
• Make use of the various tools, layers, filters, and color adjustment techniques we will cover in class.
• AT LEAST ONE COLLAGE IMAGE MUST INCLUDE THE RUBBER DUCKY BELOW.

Posting your work and commenting on the work of others:

• The finished images (in .jpg format) should be uploaded to your blog BEFORE 9:00 PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5.  
• Write some comments in your post about the assignment and your thoughts on each image you made.
• Then, AFTER 9:00 PM THURSDAY NIGHT, log into Blogger, go to each of your peers' blogs, check out their images, and leave a comment about their work.  
• What have they done well?
• What might they have done differently?
• Do you see issues that you dealt with in your own work?
• Do you have suggestions that could help them?  etc.  
• If you have obligations that interfere with this schedule, let me know IN ADVANCE so that we can make alternative plans.
• ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, we will critique the work in-class.  Come prepared to talk about the work and to offer constructive criticism.

Rubber Ducky, you're the one...to download!

Click "read more" below for examples from past students:

A Bit About Me

Since I am asking all of you to share some information about yourselves on your blog, I figured it would only be fair that I share a little as well.

My name is Jason Cole.  I attended Bethel (College) back in the 1990s, graduating with a student-initiated major combining Art and Literature.  I then moved to Memphis, TN, and worked for Youth Villages for several years.  I earned my MFA in 2008 from Memphis College of Art and proceeded to teach as an adjunct instructor at a number of colleges and universities until I learned that Bethel University had instituted an art major and needed to hire a faculty member with an MFA!  I immediately applied for the position and was fortunate enough to be hired 2011.

In 2004, I was married to the love of my life, Megan:

After 21 years, a lot more gray, considerably longer hair on my head, and one late-arrival daughter, our family looks a bit different:

Our daughter, Augustana, is almost 10 years old and a bundle of intelligent, creative energy.  We had her a bit later in life (I was 38 when she was born), so it would seem that God has a sense of humor because he gave us such a hyper, talkative child.  She is in fourth grade now and is auditioning for the school's production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

When it comes to art, I dabble in a little of it all: painting, drawing, photography, digital, and video.  If you are curious about my work, you can check out my (admittedly woefully ignored) Instagram.  The last couple of years, I have been working on a graphic novel in my spare time.  It's slow going, but I hope to publish it one day.  Below are some sample pages:

  

 

I am looking forward to an interesting semester filled with unique work from all of you!  Here we go!