Design Integration Laboratory

Architecture 222

Project One -- Painting Architecture

Objectives

Exercise basic painting skills with Adobe Photoshop.

Explore architectural rendering.

Procedure

Find a color architectural image you like in a book or magazine you own or can borrow. The image must include both hard edged, regular forms like normal building parts, and also soft-edged, irregular forms such as trees, water, or clouds. For example, a building in a landscape or a close-up of a building with flowers or trees would all be appropriate.

Using Photoshop, render this image carefully by hand on computer. Start your painting at a resolution of about 400 pixels vertical by 500 pixels horizontal--if the image is too big, you will not have time to render it in detail, and if it's too small, there won't be room for detail.

As you re-draw the image you've chosen, experiment with different tools for drawing the natural and man-made forms. Notice which tools and techniques work best for each. (Use "undo" liberally!) Explore the creative potential of the Macintosh as you would with any new media.

When you've completed your rendering and saved and backed-up your work, print a copy on the laserwriter printer at 283 Lawrence Hall to hand in. This printout will not capture the vividness of your painting on screen, but the image should be recognizable. Finally, you will hand in the actual color painting over the network, so your instructors can see the real thing.

To Hand In

1) Grayscale laserwriter printout with your name, the date, and the assignment printed on the front using the Caption option under Page Setup.

2) Hand in your file electronically, as will be described in class next week.