Artist Etiquette: What do you do in a college level art class?
PORTFOLIO
· 5+ Outside Projects/semester = 10% semester grade 2 Summer Projects due Day *
· 12+ artworks showing artistic growth, BREADTH (variety), and risk taking - Sem 1
· Photograph, edit, and upload 12+ Breadth images to AP website - February 2013
· 12+ works in a chosen CONCENTRATION (theme) showing artistic growth - Sem 2
· Photograph, edit, and upload 12+ Concentration images to AP website - April 2013
· Write, edit, and submit an artist statement about your concentration - May 2013
ATTITUDE
· Accept new ideas, contribute and grow from critiques, and take risks in your work
· As your teacher ‘It’s my job to make you better’
· Have a willingness to learn - watch every demo + execute every process/concept
· Abide by hard deadlines for credit
· Apply your existing skills, grow as a technical + conceptual artist, + build confidence
· Your mind is your instrument
· Create outside of class time (3+ hrs/wk)
TO ALL AP Strudents: Be an artist! Keep a sketchbook! Carry it with you! Draw, Paint, Collage, Collect, Cut Out, etc!!! Try to DOUBLE the width of your current sketchbook. Observe the world and express your thoughts visually. Be creative! Try new things! Collect designs as you live this summer! Place them in your sketch book.
*AP ART | SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
Directions: Choose 2+ projects to complete this summer that are due when we return to class in fall (10% sem grade). Each project should take 1+ hour. For 3D and photo projects, explore each idea with the medium of your choice (wire, found objects, paper, bought materials).
View rbapart.blogspot.com for project ideas, calendar, and AP info.Directions: Choose 2+ projects to complete this summer that are due when we return to class in fall (10% sem grade). Each project should take 1+ hour. For 3D and photo projects, explore each idea with the medium of your choice (wire, found objects, paper, bought materials).
2-D Design: This could include, but are not limited to, collage, graphic design, drawing, digital imaging, photography, drawing and painting. Works have an emphasis on the formal aspects of design.
2-D Drawing: Light and shade, line quality, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulation, and illusion of depth are drawing issues that can be addressed through a variety of means, which could include pencil, charcoal, ink, pastel, etc. Abstract, observational, and inventive works may demonstrate drawing competence.
3-D Design: Students are asked to demonstrate proficiency in 3-D design using a variety of art forms. These could include, but are not limited to clay, glass, plaster, wire, collected materials, resin, foam core, balsa foam, and wood.
***2-D works must be in the size vicinity of 18” x 24.” ***
2-D Assignment #1:
Do a still-life in the style of another artist in which formal aspects of design are emphasized: rhythm, repetition, movement, contrast, variety, unity. Examples of artists and their styles: Monet/Impressionism, Picasso/Cubism, Warhol/Pop Art, Pollock/Abstract Expressionism, Dali/Surrealism, Van Gogh/Postimpressionism, etc. Research is encouraged to create well-informed artworks!
Artist examples: See above and below…
2-D Assignment #2:
Do a self-portrait, or several different ones that express a specific mood/emotion—e.g. anger/rage, melancholy/loneliness, happiness/joy, etc. Manipulate light and color to enhance the psychological atmosphere. Also, consider the development of the environment/setting.
Artist examples: Alice Neel, Francis Bacon, Vincent Van Gogh, Fransisco de Goya, Egon Schiele, Max Pechstein, Frida Khalo
2-D Assignment #3:
Divide a page, canvas, board (your work surface) into three inset spaces. Do three views of one landscape or cityscape. Limit yourself to a specific color scheme: cool, warm, analogous, complementary, earth tones, etc.
Artist examples: Hieronymus Bosch, Claude Monet, Lionel Feininger
2-D (Photography Based) Assignment #1:
Do a self-portrait series created to impress the viewer’s “idea of you” as they have never thought of you before. The viewer will need to see you as they have never thought they would see you. Create mood and feelings through your photography.
Artist examples: Cindy Sherman,
2-D (Photography Based) Assignment #2:
Do a series that interprets the idea of fear. This will best be achieved if you relate what you fear through your images. You must be able to describe in detail what you were trying to say through your images.
2-D (Photography Based) Assignment #3:
Do a series titled Height or Ghost.
3-D Assignment #1:
Choose one object to which you have abundant access. Create repetition and rhythm by connecting/attaching/composing multiples of an object over and over. Think about things you (or someone else in your home) collect, discarded objects, cheap objects. Don’t settle on the first arrangement you think of.
***Must be at least 8” in one direction.
Artist examples: Jennifer Maestre, Fred Spaulding, Phoebe Washburn, John Dahlsen, http://www.artofthecan.com/, Tom Friedman
3-D Assignment #2:
Create a face or another object out of wire. The wire object must go beyond a mere contour/outline of the “model,” but must be a study of volume, thickness, etc. Wrap, wrap, wrap! Look at detail!
***Must be at least 8” in one direction.
Artist examples: Alberto Giacometti, Deborah Butterfield, Rachel Higgins
3-D Assignment #3:
Create an altered book. An altered book is any book, old or new that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art. Choose a theme (nature, portraits, good vs. evil, etc.) that will be carried throughout the book. Use found objects, cut away pages, layer layer layer! Think of it as a sculptural piece. Do not let the flat-book format inhibit you. Go 3-D! You may just use 2 open pages, like the artist below most often does. Visiting these websites is a MUST for this project!!!!!
Artist examples: Karen Hatzigeorgiou (http://karenswhimsy.com/altered-books/), Jan Smiley, Sue Bleiweiss http://www.littlebit.com/ab/altered01/index.htm, www.alteredbookartists.com
MORE IDEAS...
1. Create a visual time line of your life. Use words and pictures to represent the major events of your life.
2. Create at least fifteen symbols which represent your life. (symbol = a sign, figure, design, pattern, or color used to represent something or somebody.
3. Draw a bed. Made, unmade.
4. Draw a bird from a photograph.
5. Draw something that was broken and then was fixed from observation.
6. Draw a family member from an old photograph
7. Draw a head of curly hair from observation or a photo.
8. Draw a new animal that combines three existing animals (use source images and put these in your sketchbook)
9. Draw a pile of clothing.
10. Draw a house plant from observation. Make sure to name the houseplant.
11. Draw a good climbing tree from observation.
12. Draw a form of transportation in action —new or old, existing or imagined.
13. Draw a metal or glass object from observation.
14. Draw a plate of food.
15. Draw a realistic picture of an object you use every day. Shade realistically.
16. Draw a self-portrait as close to life size as possible.
17. Draw a single leaf as large as an entire sheet of paper.
18. Draw a utensil which you think is the best metaphor for you.
19. Draw glasses or sunglasses.
20. Draw something fake
21. Draw something run down.
22. Draw ten pairs of socks, underwear, or a combination.
23. Draw three different views of your hand on the same page.
24. Draw your favorite memory. On the back of your drawing, write a brief paragraph about your memory.
25. Draw your finger pointing at you (include hand).
26. Draw your foot.
27. Find an interesting view from a window in your house and make a drawing of what you see.
28. Go to the library, find an image that you like a draw from it.
29. Illustrate a scene or make an object from someone’s life story.
30. Interpret the word time through a drawing.
31. Inventors see a problem in the world and they invent to fix these problems. What problems do you see in the world? Make a drawing of an invention that would fix them. Describe your invention on the back of your drawing.
32. Listen to a piece of music and make a drawing inspired by its feeling or message.
33. Make a parody of a famous picture.
34. Make a collage using only letters.
35. Make a drawing in the bathroom.
36. Make a drawing of anything, but use only straight lines drawn with a ruler.
37. Make a drawing of yourself dancing with your favorite cartoon.
38. Make a paper replica of your bed.
39. Make a wind chime and hang it on a tree in a public place.
40. Make an arrangement of 3 household objects then draw it.
41. Make three drawings with a ballpoint pen.
42. Reinterpret a famous fairy tale.
43. Select an object from nature, bring it inside and draw it.
44. Sit outside and make a drawing of a scene from observation.
45. Tell me a story using only pictures.
46. Write your name, and then transform your marks into a drawing.
47. Make a drawing of fruit. Inside the drawing make a map of your day yesterday.
48. Ask your mom and dad what you should draw and spend 1 hour drawing it.
49. Draw your favorite shirt from observation.
50. Create a drawing or sculpture of anything you want! Spend 1 hour on this activity.
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