Week 4 February 22... Pattern Swatches...
"Only I can change my life.No one can do it for me."- Carol BurnettPattern Swatches 
Pattern Swatches Making pattern swatches 
combined 3 different sized patterns - pick pattern from swatche palette...
- ungroup them...
- change each color
- group them back...
- and save back in swatch library
Making repeat patterns
repeat patterns - using zig-zag forms... tried with various number...
- transparent color goes well with this methods...^.~
Pattern project
pattern project - Using various objects for pattern project
Week 3 February 15... Basic Tools II
"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons." -Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) using basic tools Scheduled for:
Using the option drag and repeat transform commands
Using the pathfinder filters
Using the paintbrush and pencil tools
Using the brushes palette
working on Assigned Lab Project 1
"Music Poster using various tools that learned so far..."
It is hard to creat the poster combining all of the shapes made out of different tools.
so I divided the stage in four, and each has a different image with different tools.
It didn't work well then what I thought.
I might have to come up with other ways to combine all of the tools and effects.
visited online learning library
http://lynda.com
username: MWSF05B-3176
password: 8894
learned pencil tools with various delicate useful funtions
pathfinder filters are very interesting to creat clean and neat shapes
I liked the alignment tools a lot.
For more organizing learning skills,
I like to record what I've created using new tools in class...
so I saved images as 'gif' files.
Later I found out that...
'gif' images can't be seen in my computer but 'bmp' file
but it takes long time to upload
I need to find the way to condense the image's capacity.
After a while struggling...
finally I learned how to post pictures from BloggerBot...
but they're only uploaded within certain criteria.
The images that I've saved from class, both 'gif' and 'bmp' files are not in these criteria.
only 'jpg' file can be uploaded...
I'm gonna find out it can be saved on 'jpg' format or not.
Week 2 February 8... Basic Tools I
"The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise
and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths
would be revealed to your eyes."
- K. Gibran
absent due to family member in ER
scheduled for:
Rotate, shear, scale, reflect, and twirl tools
Using the Transform palette
Using the Trasparency palette
Eyedropper and paint bucket tools
Preview and artwork views and customizing views
met classmate Kelly at MPC Library on Friday
She will show me how to use tools that learned from classes
First week of MPC Art 45...
"When you really want something to happen,
the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
'The Alchemist' - Paulo Coelho
This blog is quite different then other blogs that I've been using since 2001.
I'd like to get to know more about this blog so that I can comfotablely manage well.
I like the way of communication through blog with my Instructor...
It's cool...
First week of MPC Art 45...
class info. is in... http://themeanmissbean.com/mpc
I made my work folder and registerd in networking.
We learned about command keys... (command Z,X,C,V,A,S,Q,W...)
I liked command Z key the most...
We practised making various shapes... (circles, ovals, rectangles, polygons, stars spirals...) & strokes (different widths, colors and dash lines) using shape, stroke tools with stroke & swatch window panels.
I had trouble with deformed star shaping back to the nomal... but Miss Bein corrected me that the command key should be released when the deformed shape gets back to the normal shape.
We also created either animal or monster in landscape backgroud using only shape, stroke tools with swatch panel.
I saved in my work folder...
Just for an idea that if we can save or download from uploaded our works to this blog, then we can see what we did in class, built up ideas even at home and show to other friends to develope ideas...
I visited Miss Bean's old site... http://www.mindspring.com/~wizmo/
There are a lot of cool stuffs... so I will visit more often to get some ideas...
Also, I visited Miss Bean's blog... http://wizmo.blogspot.com/
It's awesome to get to know more about Miss bean...
'beanblog' is so cool...
How can I connect my blog to hers?...@.@
ps. just for introducing my other blog... http://blog.daum.net/bluespirit
storage cafe for images & articles ... http://cafe.daum.net/doolystudio
