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Visual Literacy Skills: How to See
Develop the visual skills of artists, designers, and architects in this fascinating journey into visual perception.

LESSONS OF VISUAL LITERACY SKILLS: HOW TO SEE BY CARRIE PATTERSON 

01: Visual Power: What It Is and Why It Matters – Visual Literacy Skills
First, consider the importance of visual input in how we perceive, understand, and navigate the world. Consider the importance of assessing our visual experience and the visual choices we make, as they influence how we think, feel, and behave. Practice two experiential tasks that will teach you to carefully observe what you see and to explore the visual world with your other senses.

02: Seeing as a Skill – Visual Literacy Skills
Start exploring the components of visual literacy with specific tasks. Understand how visual literacy entails accurately observing, describing, and creating meaning from your experiences. Learn about the nature of visual grammar, as well as the significance of function and context in what you perceive. Finally, investigate how the forms of representation, abstraction, and symbolism work in art.

03: Sensing and Perceiving: How You See – Visual Literacy Skills
Investigate the anatomy of the eyes, the physiology of vision, and how the eyes interpret visual stimuli. Then, look at how the brain converts feeling into perception by selecting, organizing, and interpreting data. Look at visual perception through the lens of Gestalt psychology, which describes how the parts of vision are structured into a cohesive visual experience.

04: Should You Believe What You See? – Visual Literacy Skills
Explore the most crucial part of our visual experience: how we derive meaning from what we see. Learn about human cognitive processes and how we conceptualize our worldviews. Discover optical illusions and how they are employed in Op Art. Then, look at how shifting cultural norms influence the work of artists and architects, particularly their visual choices.

05: Representation and Illusion – Visual Literacy Skills
How do we determine what is real? To begin answering that question, consider representation in art and how we value artists’ abilities to create the appearance of form and depth. Examine how photography influences our perception of the world, and how we tend to see photographs as “truth.” Understand how pictures are “constructed” in photography and art, as well as how fact and fiction can intersect.

06: Elements of Visual Syntax – Visual Literacy Skills
Visual syntax is the basis of visual language. First, consider seven formal aspects that painters and designers use, including line, shape, color, and texture. Learn about the design principles that make up a composition, such as unity, emphasis, and balance. Examine historic and modern interiors to see how these features and concepts are applied to achieve certain results.

07: Visual Foundations: Dot, Line, and Shape – Visual Literacy Skills
Take a thorough look at the visual aspects that artists and designers employ in their creative work. Begin with the dot, a single point in space. Consider how painters utilize dots to indicate position, form, and value. Continue exploring the qualities and expressive applications of lines and inferred lines in art. Finally, learn the fundamentals of shapes and investigate positive and negative space.

08: Visual Foundations: Value – Visual Literacy Skills
Continue your visual language study by looking at value, which is the degree of lightness or darkness in a hue or form. Assess the value of well-known artists’ work and engage in exercises that train the eyes to recognize value. Take note of how the materials you employ influence your work’s worth, and utilize a grayscale to evaluate the value of colors. Learn how to adjust the value of paint colors by tinting and shading.

09:Visual Foundations: Color – Visual Literacy Skills
Consider how each human civilization has a “language” of color and how we attribute significance to hues. Examine various scientific approaches for understanding color and practice tasks to identify the dimensions of hue, value, and chroma. Understand how color is related to its surroundings, as well as how color knowledge is important in art, design, architecture, and other visual decisions.

10: Visual Foundations: Texture – Visual Literacy Skills
Consider texture to be an important component of our relationship with the visual environment, noticing how we perceive texture through touch and sight. Investigate the physiology of touch and the ability of texture to elicit powerful physical and emotional responses. Explore texture using collage, montage, and assemblage techniques, as well as practicing minute observation and texture copying.

11: Visual Foundations: Space – Visual Literacy Skills
Learn how artists and designers create the illusion of space in two dimensions. Begin with thin space, a compositional technique that emphasizes the two-dimensional nature of an artwork. See how artists use item placement and proportional measurements within the picture plane to imply space and depth. Understand atmospheric perspective, linear perspective, and projection.

12: Thinking in Three Dimensions – Visual Literacy Skills
This course looks at the principles of three-dimensionality in painting. Begin by studying low relief artworks, which have forms that stand out against a flat surface, and then practice producing low relief with clay in the workshop. Continue using the high relief method in clay, learning to model the volume of a form. Finish by exploring fully three-dimensional art and creating a simple freestanding sculpture.

13: Building in Three Dimensions – Visual Literacy Skills
Volume and mass are fundamental concepts in architecture, design, and three-dimensional art. Understand the importance of architectural materials in terms of structure, volume, and the overall experience of a space. Examine a case study of a planned house for its use of volume, material, proportion, and scale. Consider how design must balance volume and mass for both utilitarian and aesthetic reasons.

14: The Limits of Space: Visual Landscapes – Visual Literacy Skills
Investigate how artists and designers use landscape to negotiate the challenges of place. Examine the rules of linear perspective as they apply to art and our everyday experiences. Witness how artists use different perspective systems to express the disorderly sense of developed settings, as well as how they depict wild landscapes to evoke a sense of timelessness and the infinite.

15: Principles of Design – Visual Literacy Skills
Begin to polish and deepen your talents as a visual communicator. Look first at composition, which is the arrangement of visual elements in relation to one another. Then, explore four key design principles: unity and variation, emphasis, balance, and proportion and size. Discover concrete strategies for cultivating and utilizing these ideas in your own life.

16: Exploring Visual Time – Visual Literacy Skills
Witness the incredible ways in which time works in art and visual communication. Take note of how the duration of watching, the creation time of the work, and how artists capture fixed moments and the passage of time all influence the art experience. Practice visualizing and expressing time, as well as observing factors like pace, implied motion, and real time in visual experience.

17: Strategies for Visual Storytelling – Visual Literacy Skills
Unpack the concepts underlying visual art that tells a tale or story. Consider how a tale can be expressed using a still image (static visual narrative), a moving image (dynamic visual narrative), or a format that involves audience interaction (interactive visual narrative). Practice static narrative abilities and discover how to tell a story using still photographs.

18: Symbol, Subject, Content, and Context – Visual Literacy Skills
Investigate how symbols, subject matter, content, and context interact to produce meaning. First, investigate the role of signs, symbols, and logos, and evaluate their extraordinary power. Define topic matter in art in terms of its content, influence, or meaning. Then recognize the critical role of context in our comprehension of symbol, subject, and content.

19: Making Choices: Material, Method, and Style – Visual Literacy Skills
In art and design, the material, artistic process, and style all have meaning. Consider the functional and aesthetic elements that influence your material selection. Consider how the artistic method you use influences the product and its significance. Finally, identify style and understand how to build and express it in your work and life.

20: Cultivating Creative Habits – Visual Literacy Skills
Consider strategies to develop regular practices that engage your visual talents and nurture your creative side. Consider allocating time at the start of your day to prepare for creative thinking and work. Learn ways for keeping flexible and open, improving visual awareness, and capturing creative concepts through sketching, reading, and writing. Identify artistic behaviors that you want to develop.

21: The Visual Life: Active Observation – Visual Literacy Skills
Investigate what it means to be an intentional active observer. Consider practical techniques to question or suspend regular perception in order to perceive things differently and shift your perspective. Use convergent and divergent thinking, non-linear brainstorming, sketching, and other approaches to broaden your awareness and eliminate assumptions about what you perceive.

22: The Visual Life: Exploring and Connecting – Visual Literacy Skills
Consider the essence of inventive thinking: discovering connections between seemingly unrelated things. Arouse curiosity, explore connections, conduct research, and consider the big picture to help you expand your thinking. Investigate settings that encourage original thought, methods for generating ideas, and how to organize a period of creative activity.

23: The Visual Life: Collecting – Visual Literacy Skills
Examine the human desire to gather, curate, and appropriate artifacts, and evaluate collecting as a necessary ability for artists and designers. Examine examples of personal and historical collections, as well as public and private collections, and learn how to start collecting for yourself. Learn how to curate and display your own collection, as well as how to follow art collection principles.

24: The Visual Life: Becoming a Maker – Visual Literacy Skills
Conclude with an uplifting look into the process of making art and design. Investigate what types of artistic works pique your interest, and consider several paths to becoming an artist. Learn to develop creative goals, organize a workstation, and choose supplies. Finally, examine methods to identify a theme and subject matter, as well as strategies to discover your own unique creative approach.

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Overview

Your capacity to make sense of what you see is critical in an image-rich world, and it greatly enhances your appreciation for art and design.

Visual literacy improves your enjoyment and ability to articulate the aesthetics of almost everything, from great artists’ works to magnificent architectural architecture and even the design of common products. These classes cover design principles, including line, shape, space, texture, color, and more, as well as how to recognize and assess them. You will also discover how the arrangement of these concepts influences the overall quality of design and art.

Consider how hints to a work’s meaning are frequently given through the language of symbols, such as the iconography of a Renaissance work or the colors of a company’s logo. You don’t have to be an artist to appreciate and use these ideas, but artists and designers will undoubtedly profit.

You simply need an engaged mind to perceive beyond the obvious in any designed art or thing.In these 24 classes, you’ll learn how the ideas and abilities of visual literacy directly influence our experiences.

You will learn about the formal vocabulary of art, the principles of visual design, how visual language works, and how to communicate visually. You’ll also learn how to develop profound observation skills, discover fresh ideas, and create your own artwork or design.

About Instructor of Visual Literacy Skills: How to See
Carrie Patterson
Teaching and creating art are inseparable practices. I learned everything I know about teaching from great painters who showed me the value of passing down the legacy of making objects.

Carrie Patterson is a professor of art at St. Mary’s College in Maryland. She received her BFA in Studio Art from James Madison University and an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Patterson has been at St. Mary’s College of Maryland since 2004, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate art courses and collaborates with colleagues from other departments to promote interdisciplinary art education.

Professor Carrie Patterson is also a visual artist whose work explores how color, form, and line may quantify and represent our physical experiences. Her work has been shown across the country, including solo exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, Virginia, and Minnesota, as well as the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá, Colombia. She has received numerous prizes for her art, including the Savelli Painting Award and the graduate teaching award from the University of Pennsylvania, the Virginia Governor’s Fellowship, and the Leeway Foundation’s Seedling Painting Award.

Professor Carrie Patterson fosters lifelong learning through her studio in Leonardtown, Maryland, where she offers a variety of art programs to students of all ages and skill levels. She is currently working on an art curriculum for early childhood and K-12 children to promote the development of critical visual literacy abilities as part of foundational learning.

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