VOCABULARY

ICON: a symbol or design used as an identifying mark; a pictorial symbol on a computer screen.

With Mac OS X, The swirling beach ball is the icon for a frozen program.

CONSTRAIN: To constrain is to impose limitations or restrictions on someone or something,

or to force yourself or someone else to act in a certain way.

CROP: to remove the upper or outer parts of

Sometimes cropping can create BALANCE in a composition that was not originally balanced.

Cropping and heavily editing images off the Internet can sometimes be a way to make your own art

out of someone else's art. But it's only okay if the original art is not at all recognizable. But always try

and get your own images first.

DISTORT:  to twist out of a natural, normal, or original shape or condition.

Artists can distort many things: PROPORTIONS, COLOR, TEXTURE, etc.

ELEMENTS (Art Elements): 

INCONGRUOUS: not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something : the duffel coat looked incongruous with the black dress she wore underneath.

INFORMAL BALANCE: Another name for ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE, in which unlike objects have equal VISUAL WEIGHT or eye attraction.

JUXTAPOSE: place or deal with close together for contrasting effect : black-and-white photos of slums were starkly juxtaposed with color images.

Derivative: JUXTAPOSITION (noun)

MERGE: to become combined into one

PROTOCOL: a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette and precedence

The FILE NAMING protocol for Ms. Hooker's students is as follows: The PROJECT NAME followed by the STUDENT'S FIRST name using mixed case and no spaces. Here's an example: ShapesMartina.ai

RADIAL SYMMETRY : the condition of having similar parts regularly arranged around a central axis

REVERT: to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject)

I think just about every computer program has the REVERT option in the FILE MENU. A good practice before you try something you're not sure about is to save your work and then proceed with out fear! If disaster strikes, all you have to do is go to FILE > REVERT and your file will go back to the last time you saved.

SCALE: scale something up or down in size, number or extent: his whole income scaled down by 20 percent; one cannot suddenly scale up a laboratory procedure by a thousandfold.

VALUE: Lights and darks