This document summarizes 6 projects focused on using design software to create digital artwork. It discusses using Keynote to create a parody about numbers for project 1. Project 2 involved using Adobe Illustrator to create a composition about a poem using only text and negative space. Project 3 was designing a mandala using geometry and color relationships in Illustrator. Chapter exercises from the textbook were completed in preparation for project 4, which explored blending layers and colors. Project 5 involved collaborating with classmates to add elements to an original scanned image. The final project used duplication, contrast, and collage techniques to create 3 images relating to nature.

1. NUMBER
In our first project we were randomly selected and given
a topic to generate what comes to mind when we think
of that topic; my topic was numbers. For this project we
learned how to use keynote to create a slideshow video of
our thoughts and reactions to our topic. I decided to make
a parrody of mathmeticians and scientists.

2. For project two we read the poem Thirteen Ways Of Looking at a Blackbird bWallace Stevens. Using Adobe Illustrator I focused on my composition and used gestalt principals to create positive and negative space using only type
in my final piece. Every part of the negative space that I
made represents each stanza in the poem.

3. Project three was about using adobe illustrater to design
a mandala of the elements using geometry and color. We
learned about color relationships and different geometric structures to make a compositionally pleasing image.
In this project I learned how to create an illusion of color
transparency and blending. I used this technique to generate the colors I chose to fill my body layer.

4. In order to prepare ourselves for project four we read
chapters seven through nine and completed the correlating exercises. For chapter nine we learned how to blend
layers and experimented with using different hues and
saturation. In this chapter I enjoyed blending layers and
changing hues and saturations which ultimately created
really interesting textures.

5. For my project four I really wanted to focus on textures
and layers of color. My original scanned image was of
jewelry and chains and I used my hair as a background
image. In my second image two classmates individually
collaborated on my original picture and when I received
their final product I blended and altered what they placed
on my image.

6. In our last project of multiples and collage I chose to
do a series of three images relating to the same subject
(nature). I duplicated each image twice and making one
black and white with a high contrast and one highly saturated color version. Then I cut pieces of the black and
white and color images and placed them on the original
image.