Week 1 Assignment (Paul P)

 The artist I chose to write about is Shige Yamada. Shige Yamada was born on May 25th, 1933 in Wailuku on the island of Maui in Hawai'i. He served in the US Army from 1956 to 1958, and has a history of education in the arts, teaching in California, Hawai'i, and Japan.

The art piece I've chosen to share below is titled "The Sea of Illusion" and it was made using paint. It seems to depict three sets of waves crashing into each other, illuminated by some light source while the rest of the piece remains much darker, with some orange circles and lines most likely being the illusions mentioned in the title. There also appear to be objects at the top and bottom of the waves. The piece comes from a collection titled "Wellspring of Aloha".

Week one assignment

 The artist I chose this week was Martinakis Adam. Martinakis Adam is a contemporary digital artist known for his stunning and intricate digital sculptures and 3D art. He was born on December 10, 1972, in Lubań, Poland. However, he is of Greek and Polish descent. He currently resides in Greece. Adam Martinakis creates his art primarily using digital tools and techniques. His work often blurs the lines between traditional sculpture and digital art, creating ethereal and thought-provoking pieces. His artistic process typically involves using software like Z Brush and other 3D modeling tools to create virtual sculptures. He explores various themes in his work, including human emotions, relationships, identity, and the surreal aspects of the human experience. His pieces have received widespread acclaim and exhibited in exhibits, galleries, and digital art journals worldwide. The ability of Martinakis to smoothly mix technology with creative expression has contributed to his reputation in modern digital art. 

The piece below is called Level IIIa m. I couldn’t find much initially when I looked this up, but I found a little. Level IV" is a digital artwork created by the artist Adam Martinakis. This piece is part of his series of intricate and visually captivating digital sculptures, often exploring themes of identity, emotion, and the human experience. he created this piece with more that are a part of a collection that are supposed to show human emotions and other things. he made this with a mixture of Z brush and 3ds max.

                                                             

                                                                  

 

Introductions

 

Hey everyone, my name is Jordan. I am a senior with many interests, like drawing and taking pictures in my free time: working out, or playing the game. I am also on the basketball team. I hope to see some of you guys at the games!

Intro Blog Post

 Im Hayden Grigas, I'm a commuter from Milford CT, I am going to play lacrosse at Albertus. I have an adorable dog named Suki. My major is Business Management and some hobbies I enjoy are watching Football, basically anything with cars and sometimes video games.

Week One Assignment

    The artist I chose for week one is Takayoshi Ueda. Ueda was born in Japan 1969, and currently works and lives in Wakayama, Japan. While studying in an art school in Kyoto, he was deeply intrigued by the monochrome paint software he used while studying there, and later began creating digitally with a computer in 1994! He went on to create these amazing, intricately detailed analog paintings, and had several exhibitions showcasing his works throughout the years. To create these amazing pieces, he combines different media of his artwork together using different materials (drawings, collages, paintings) along with the digital art using the monochrome paint software to get the finalized art pieces. 

    The piece I have picked below is a limited edition piece of artwork from an exhibition he held in 2010. Ueda says he created this piece based on the concept of "Harmony arising from the aggregation of diverse individuals and unity in dissonance". The characters in his works are based off of a familiar plant or animal while also being "flexible, rich in variety, and highly rigid" as he describes. Once he constructs his collages, they're described as a unique space where harmony and chaos co-exist! That is initially one of the main components as to why this art drew me in. The mixture of different textures and colors against one another is just so striking and intriguing. You can interpret this art in several different ways, from many unique perspectives. From the figures to the animals and plants, and what kinds of emotions live within the artwork. 

Link to the Takayoshi Ueda website: http://www.gutchee.com/ 

"Circle of Doshoku" 2010

  Hello Everyone,

My name is Adianis Colondres, and I'm happy to be here. I love to play video games, and I enjoy drawing in general. I like being around people and want to share my interest in different things, such as Anime and anything art-related. Let's all do our best this semester! 

Week One Assignment

     The artist I chose for this week is Sara Deutsch. She is a multi-media artist, creative arts therapist, and educator who explores "CyberAlchemy".  She uses computers as a way to transform her art, which is what she used for this piece below. I chose this piece because it stood out to me in the sense that; our mind could be what holds the answers to the universe. Or maybe shows how far beyond our mind can create. It could also be a representation of what we are made of, which is stardust. I feel that this is one of those pieces where you could make it out to be whatever you want, and it fits. 

Week One Work

 Don Archer commended his computer life in the 1990s. In 1992, he co-founded MOCA, where he serves as director.

This image made by D0n Archer used by an AI depicts a Shadow man sitting in the middle of the picture. The way it was made, it looked like the Shadow man was standing in the light of a street lamp or sitting on a couple of bricks in an old abandoned building. This image reminds me of Jack the Ripper with his top hat and dark cloak, which could be possible. Don Archer had placed some prompts where he asked the AI to paint a man sitting somewhere. 

Shadow Man art

About me

  Hi guys! My name is Andre Marcano, I'm a sophomore now at Albertus and I look forward to working in this class. A couple things about me is I enjoy traveling, video games, and a little cooking. im also apart of Albertus's Esports Club and playing on the Valorant team. 

Week One Assignment Reagan Franzoni

The artist I chose for week 1 from the Museum of Computer Art is Joan Myerson Shrager. She is an American digital artist. She has been an artist for over 30 years and originally studied painting, sculpture, and ceramics at Moore College of Art and Design and Tyler School of Art. She uses photoshop and illustrator to create some of her designs. More recently, she has started using a new software called Procreate used on an iPad. A lot of her art features photographs of some of her hand-made sculptures covered with designs digitally made in illustrator or Procreate. These sculptures and photographs are usually the basis of her digital paintings.

Some of her recent work follows the tragic stories behind some of the Russian attacks on Ukraine. Other digital paintings reveal the emotions behind wars from the past. A lot of her work reflects experiences and deep thoughts about life and consciousness. She uses bright bold colors to layer on her digital paintings to bring out and distinguish the details made between technology and real art. She usually likes to tell a story through her art and the computer allows her to shape her ideas in ways that physical art materials usually can’t do. The image I chose to attach from her portfolio is one from the art of war pieces. It illustrates a ghost and possibly a family portrait from a long time ago from a previous war and the ghost in this image is probably a soldier fighting in Ukraine. She includes sunflowers in a lot of these pieces, my guess is to bring a more enlightened mood to such a tragic situation or to bring peace to the ghosts in the images. It looks like she may have used illustrator to create more of an original piece with what look to be older photographs dissolved into the image. 

Link to Joan Myerson Shrager Website-

http://joan-myersonshrager.com/

Week One Assignment

    The artist that I chose for my week one assignment is the FleetingEmber. To create this picture, the artist used a blend of photoshop and used the Wacom Clintiq 13HD drawing tablet. The way the artist created the piece was by painting and drawing the base lines and then using photoshop to touch up the coloring and to add artificial lighting to the tail end of the raven. The work that FleetingEmber created was about examining nature and picturing nature in a cleansing matter. On the other hand if you ask me about what the artwork represents I would say that it is a duality of nature. I believe this is due to the fact that the darkness is represented by the raven and that the brightness is represented by the colors coming off of the raven. It also possibly shows the cycle between night and day with the raven representing the night and the sun and colors representing day.

The artists website is https://www.fleetingartstudio.co.uk

Week One Assignment (Toby Marineau)

 

This week I chose the Black Boy and Black Girl on City Street image. This image was created digitally (AI) by Don Archer. He created this piece of art in Wombo Dream and Midjourney. This piece of art was also made in 2023. 

I chose this piece of art because it stood out to me. This also gives me hints that these people in the piece of art were living in the mid-late 1990s because of their clothing. And lastly, this piece of art gives me opinions that Don Archer is a cultural artist and likes making art about people. 

Black Boy and Black Girl on City Street Image

Week One Assignment Kyle Dann

Paul David Redfern 

Paul was born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1958. He has lived and worked in Gorizia, Italy for several years and in 2014 he was awarded the title Knight of the Republic for artistic merits. He has a heavy passion for classic cars and also an owner of two historic Fiat 500"s, which led him to develop an artistic project called "Photomorfosi".  He claims that he makes his work with only three tools: an iMac, a digital camera and Photoshop. What makes his art fascinating is his use of graphic textures, which creates an illusion that the subject is painted on a real surface, such as wood, tin or stone, instead of a computer. This makes it easier for the observer to imagine that the objects can be real compared to digitalized images. He loves using rust effects in his paintings, as well as overlapping images, to make you take a closer look at his paintings to find the hidden items. This technique is a way that Paul is able to give the observer a way to look at the painting in his eyes. His subjects in the paintings are from the thirties onward that are sporty, but also contextualized with graphics and advertising from the time period. His paintings are very patriotic and show older cars that are made to look antique. 

 Paul David Redfern's website

Truman Brown portafolio (Dylan Madera)

 The artists that i have chosen that i have found interesting is Truman Brown he made a image of a "monstrous bird" in front of a mysterious  "old mansion."Truman brown claimed to have used 2 different softwares for this image called Midjourney and photoshop. This image seems gives off a creepy type of vibe the way the bird looks like something out of a scary movie and the mansion seems really old and abandoned. this also seems like a fantasy image, the reason i say that is because there aren't many creepy looking birds that are the size of a mansion of what seems to be 3 stories tall.

i think that the bird being taller adds to the creepy side of the image on why is it so abnormally big and why is it outside a creepy mansion. it makes me question a lot of things like is the mansion the birds home or is he just guarding his home or is it a coincidence that the bird is there? another thing about the bird is it seems to have sort of a guard on the front of its chest and it seems to be very skinny and frail which makes it very strange to look at

link to their website: https://www.deviantart.com/trumanbrown/gallery 

image:

about me (Dylan Madera)

Hi my name is Dylan Madera i am a new freshman at Albertus. The active major that I am pursuing at Albertus is sports management. I am a commuter from Norwalk CT. I loved making Art in highschool so I'm very interested and excited for this course! This year I am most excited about playing soccer for Albertus and winning a chip. That's a little bit about me

Some of my interest and hobbies would be:

• Playing soccer for Albertus

• Listening to music ( preferably RnB, Rap)

• Hitting the gym

• Watching movies

• Buying soccer jerseys

About Me

 Hello everybody! My name is Pedro Torres Diaz. I am an incoming freshman at Albertus. I come from small town Sierra Vista, Arizona and I am studying to get my business management major, with a focus in either marketing or finance. I play men's soccer here at Albertus. I also love playing the trumpet, and I hope to play some jazz in the city soon. I'm very excited on getting to work with y'all. 

Week Two: Find image on Google INSTRUCTIONS

How to find an image to bring into Photoshop: 

  

Week One Assignment INSTRUCTIONS

 Visit the Museum of Computer Art

Each week you will write a short piece about an artist you found interesting at MOCA and post it to the blog. How did the artist create this work? What software was used? Include an image from that artist's portfolio. Do that by right clicking on the image and choose "save image as". A paragraph or two would be enough. What is the work about? How did they do it? Include a link to the artist's website, if one exists.

About Me

 Hello, my name is Brandon Lassen, I am a junior here and I am studying Photography as a major. I want to start my own photography studio or eventually become a videographer in the future. 

About Me: Paul Piorkowski

 Hi y'all, I'm Paul. I'm a sophomore here at Albertus and I'm majoring in game design. Some of my interests and hobbies include:

• Metal music
• Country music
• The trading card game Magic: the Gathering
• The role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
• The tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000

I love going to metal concerts (as of posting this I've seen 38 different metal bands, with 11 more planned before the end of the year), and I hope to go to some country concerts one day as well. I also make music; I play guitar and banjo, as well as doing vocals. I own three guitars; a six string, a seven string, and a nine string. One day I hope to either work for Wizards of the Coast (the company that makes MTG and D&D) as part of their card/set design team, or open my own game cafe. 

A picture my partner took of me when we went to see the bands Shadow of Intent, Dream of Scipio, Enterprise Earth, Inferi, and Wormhole back in November 2022

About Me

 Hello Everyone!!

My name is Ian Garcia, I am currently a sophomore at Albertus. The intended major that I'm actively pursuing at Albertus is the Game and Computer Arts Major. The dream job I will be employed as is a video game designer, it has been a goal and dream of mine since I was 13. I have a serious passion for video games and making them. During the beginning of summer break, I began rock climbing and really fell in love with it, it's one of my favorite hobbies now and has become another passion of mine as of late.

I hope everyone had a restful and peaceful summer break!

About Me

 Hello everyone, I am Will Lavigne. I am from Montreal, Canada. I am a freshman here at Albertus. My major is finance. I am going to be playing on the Hockey team here in Albertus. I have three siblings, two younger brothers and one older sister. My sister is a speech therapist and both of my younger brothers go to school, one is at university in Montreal and the other goes to school in Saskatchewan. 

About Me

 My name is Kyle Dann. I am a freshman at Albertus. I am going to play on the Albertus hockey team. I am from Windham, NH. I have two chocolate labs back at home in NH. I'm majoring in business at Albertus and will probably narrow it down between Finance or Accounting. I have a younger brother that just graduated high school who also plays hockey. 

About Me (Toby Marineau)

 Hi everyone, my name is Tobias (Toby) Marineau and I am a sophomore. I am also a transfer student. Before attending Albertus Magnus, I went to USJ in West Hartford to play baseball. I am a right-handed pitcher. Since that year was a club year, I am a baseball freshman and academic sophomore. While I am in school, I am also studying to become a social worker. This is a little bit about me!

About Me

Hi everyone! My name is Deborah Caro, but you can call me Deby! I'm an incoming freshman excited to explore the digital arts and so much more. I am interested in majoring in either Social Media or Marketing- or both! I've always enjoyed the arts, both visual and digital, as I did attend an arts magnet school. I work as a licensed nail technician, where I get to create little pieces of art for my clients which I enjoy with a passion! I really love creating, whether that be painting, writing, or designing. I'm excited to get to know the rest of you more during the semester!

About Me

My name is Reagan Franzoni! I am a junior here at Albertus and I am majoring in Graphic Design and possibly minoring in Math. Something about me is I love art and design and organizing things like logos and poster type-things. I also love hanging with friends and family and my dog, watching new movies & series, and going to the beach. 

 

About Me

 Hello all,

My name is Kevin Guerra it is so nice to meet all of you. A little bit about me, I like to play Video Games, go outside and hang out with my friends. My intended major is Game and Computer Arts otherwise known as Video Game Design.

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This is a test post that I am adding using my other Google account. 

What I did was login using my personal account (I had invited myself using that personal email address and I accepted the invitation.) 

Next, I clicked on Add a Post and filled out the title and added text to the main text area.

I also added the image from our assignment.

Posting Images and Text to Blogger:

 1) You must login to Blogger (Some of you did not add your name to your profile. Please login and fix that)

2) Click on "NEW POST" to add a post

3) Add your Title

4) Click in the main area and start typing.

5) Add a photo

6) Click on PUBLISH

Welcome to Introduction to Computer Art!

So that we can meet each other, please post your photo and a short bio to this post. You can do it by editing this post and adding your text and image below mine. I will start.

Greetings! I'm Susan McCaslin, your instructor for this class. I'm a graphic designer and fine artist residing in the charming Westville area of New Haven. It's a pleasure to meet you! I have a fondness for collecting vintage home goods, which I sell on my Etsy shop, known as searchedandfound.com. Additionally, I run a personal blog on isearcheandfound.blog, where I share my passion for discovering unique objects.