Exercise -Visual Pun Composits
Using your pen tool and selection skills combine two or more images to depict a visual pun.
Planning: Make up a list of some possible puns such as: strong box, watch dog, coat of arms, six feet underground, shoe tree, navel orange, and light house. Visualize an image from these words. (A box with muscles, a watch in shape of dog head, etc.) Look through samples file or gather other potential images. Complete 2 thumbnails of ideas. Get checked off by.
Document: Set up a Photoshop document 5” x 7” or 7” x 5” with a resolution of 100 dpi, RGB. Save your image with into your own work folder. Selections will be made from multiple images and put into this file. Canvas size can be enlarged or cropped to meet the needs of the image. Keep all associated images used and save the finished products as a jpgs and post them to your blog.
Description: Students will create visual representation of selected pun or words that sound alike. Masks and the pen tool skills are to be incorporated in the process. Write down steps describing tools and techniques used
Definitions
Visual Puns: Visual pun is the use of symbols to suggest two or more meanings or different associations. Visual puns combine two or more symbols (picture and/or text) to form a new meaning. The viewer must mentally elaborate on the visual stimulus to interpret the message
Visual Puns: Creating an artwork in which several visual forms which look alike (thinking by appearance in the right hemisphere) are connected and combined so as to bring out two or more possible meaningful ideas in a humorous way.
Possible Visual Puns
Watch Dog, Fan Club, Second Hand Store, Water Closet, Strong Box, Photo Bug, Bookworm, Loud Tie, Toothpick, Gatorade, Handcuffs, Horse radish, Fireman, Wisdom Tooth, Mail Man, Boxing Match, Book Worm, Butterfly, Moth Ball, Garden Hose, Horse Fly, Eye Ball, Handball, Football, Siamese Fighting fish, Paradise fish, Fire mouth Cichlid, Convict Cichlid, Zebra Cichlid, Rosy Barb, Tiger Barb, Harlequin Rasbora, Dragon fish, Wolf fish, Snake pipefish, Great pipefish, Spiny Dogfish, White Cloud Mountain Fish, Swordtail fish, Bleeding Heart fish, Blind cave fish, Silver Dollar fish, Pencil Fish, Penguin Fish, Scissors Tail Fish, Glass Fish, Armoured Catfish, Jewel Fish, Picked dogfish, Dragonet, Leaf Fish, Clown Loach, Australian Rainbow Fish, Archer Fish, Beacon Fish, Egyptian Mouth-breeder, Mosquito Fish, Flag fish, Black Widow fish, Pirate, Perch, Toadfish, Striped Squirrel fish, Fruit Punch Devilled Eggs Bird Names for Visual Puns, Bee-eaters, Bellbirds, Birds of Paradise, Ovenbirds, Canvasback, Catbirds, Corn Crakes, Cowbirds, Elf Owl, Scrub fowl, Seabird, Secretary Bird Flycatchers, Frogmouths, Fork-tailed swift, Turtle Dove, Kingbirds, Kingfishers, Man of War Bird, Night Hawk, Grasshopper Sparrow, Egyptian Plover, Rock Hopper Penguin, Yellow Hammer, Umbrella Bird, Grey Winged Trumpeter, Fruit Dove, Elephant Bird, Dollar bird, Tiger Parrot, Sandwich Tern, Firecrest, King Penguin, Rose Headed Parakeet, Festive Parrot, Scissor -Tailed Nightjar, Spotted Ant bird, Flower Bulb , Jack Frost, Dreadlock , Fire Drill , Dragon Fly, Dr. Pepper, Money Order, Star Fish, Serial Killer.