MS. VILLEGAS ROOM 316 AP STUDIO ART SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS Welcome to AP Studio Art! By taking AP Studio Art you are committing yourself to a year of rigorous college level art making, writing, and discussion. Summer projects are graded and required assignments created during your summer break in order to get a jumpstart on your AP Studio Portfolio. They are critiqued and graded the 1 st week of school. This summer, in order to prepare for A.P. Studio Art, you will begin by compiling and organizing already finished artworks, creating new ones, and choosing a theme for the concentration portion of your AP portfolio. Next Thing to do: KNOW THYSELF! You must figure out which portfolio(s) you will devote your AP Studio work towards completing. You have 3 Choices and you can do more than one portfolio too! *Drawing *2Dimensional Design (2D) *3Dimensional Design (3D) for this portfolio please see Ms. Ohlson There are 3 parts to each portfolio: Quality (5 artworks), Breadth (12 artworks), and Concentration (12 artworks). The portfolio is a total of 24 different artworks (the 5 quality artworks come from Breadth or Concentration). You are encouraged to check out the Collegeboard AP Central website, by entering the following address: https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/home Then look under AP Course for the portfolio of your choice. The AP evaluators are interested not only in the work presented but also in visual evidence of the student s thinking, selected method of working, and development of the work over time. The range of marks used to make drawings, the arrangement of those marks, and the materials used to make the marks are endless. 44444444444444444444444444444
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PORTFOLIOS? Drawing Portfolio: This portfolio is about creating artworks that demonstrate your own original STYLE, EXPERIMENTATIONS and MARK MAKING. Artworks should demonstrate knowledge of The Elements of art and Principles of Design as explored through light and shade, line quality, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulation, and illusion of depth/space. You can use a variety of media or just one type (its your choice) including paint, pencil, charcoal, pastels, mixed media, collage, color pencil, etc. For this portfolio students are encouraged to work from direct observation of forms and also from your imagination. Portraits from your own photos or looking in a mirror, still lifes, landscapes or cityscapes, artworks which show you know how to use Perspective are good examples for Breadth work. Artworks from dreams, emotions, imagination and experimentations with materials should be included. 2D Design Portfolio: This portfolio includes artworks demonstrating intentional use and manipulation of The Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. You should create artworks showing how you arrange the Elements of Art to demonstrate each Principle of design (example: Creating an artwork made of COLORED SHAPES to show ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE). Drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, collage, computer generated art and photography are all appropriate media for expressing design principles. The works address a range of design issues like inventive Compositions or Points of Views, Using Text or Typography with images, T-shirt or Poster Designs, Product or Fashion Design, Children s book illustrations, graphic novels/comics/cartoons, illustrations that provide the viewer with a complete and specific message. 444444444444444444444444444
2D SUMMER PROJECT For PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO STUDENTS ONLY If you choose to do your 2D Design portfolio in photography please do ALL of the following photo assignments IN ADDITION to the other projects. 1. Obtain or borrow a digital camera (can use your phone camera) for the summer and take the following photographic assignments. 2. Save your work on a flash drive. 3. Prepare a slide show of all the different assignments to show the class when you return. 1. The Elements of Art = 10 POINTS EACH Take 7 photographs that are your answers to the following one-word titles: Line, Color, Space, Shape, Texture, Value, Form See if you can find and capture the Elements of Art as they exist in the natural world. Your photographs may be black and white or colored. Keep in mind, composition plays an important role so take several photos of same subject until you get the right one. 2. Every Single Day= 5PTS EACH Take a photo of yourself every day during the summer. Try it for at least 20 days. The number one rule is that you must hit the shutter button or remote. Second rule, at least some part of you must be in the photograph. It doesn t sound so bad at first but, there are only so many selfies you can take holding the camera at arms length before even you get bored. Some days you can decorate your face or apply different lighting and hairstyles. Some days maybe just the hands and feet are in the photograph. 4. Using Different Cameras & Playing with available features= 10 PTS EACH 9 Photograph of the same subject using at least 3 different types of cameras like (digital camera with features like B&W/Sepia/Fish-Eye, film camera (try taking pics on MANUAL setting not AUTOMATIC, phone camera (try different features, ipad/notebook camera, computer camera (Photobooth), disposable camera (try taking pics then smashing camera a little and getting it developed at Costco, and Polaroid). DO NOT MANIPULATE IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP OR IPHOTO! SOME ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND MAY WORK OUT OR NOT- ITS OKAY. 44444444444444444444444444444
The Summer Assignment For Everyone! Everyone regardless of which portfolio you will be doing in the fall (Drawing or 2D Design) must do the sketchbook assignment. - Start a NEW Sketchbook or add to an existing one! Write the date on each page as you work, in the lower bottom right hand side (small). Sketchbook must be an on-going summer investigation, collection, and work that will lead us into your AP Concentration in the Fall. This sketchbook must include: 1. 5 pages of Observational Drawings. 2. 5 pages with drawings/paintings of found objects. 3. 5 pages of mixed-media collage: (examples: Drawings and cut-outs from magazines overlapping, pasted down, glued, painted over photographs, newspapers, maps, etc.) * Collages should not reveal their source, and should be manipulated in a way that makes them original by taking the original idea from the photo out of context and placing it into a new context your context. 4. 5 pages of note taking that include both text and imagery. 5. 5 pages of reflection/automatic writing/poetry that discuss your thoughts (have a conversation with yourself, write poetry, talk about your own art-making processes you wish to explore next fall, propose ideas for future works or future titles of works for your concentration, jot down names of artists/artworks you d like to use as inspiration, etc. - DO NOT DRAW FROM PHOTOGRAPHS YOU DID NOT TAKE! DO NOT DRAW FROM MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET IMAGES, ECT. The use of published photographs or the work of other artists for duplication is plagiarism. Images you did not photograph yourself may inspire an artwork but they must be taken out of their original context, transformed, abstracted, distorted, or changed completely from their original state. - Draw from observation, things you see in the world. Learn to translate the dynamic threedimensional into two-dimensional. - NO TRITE images- get serious, not just pretty things to hang in your house. - Don t be boring with your work. Challenge yourself! -Avoid showing your work to others unless you know they are going to understand what you are trying to do in your sketchbook. You don t need negative feedback when you are trying out new ideas or experimenting. This is a place for risk-taking. Don t invite criticism unless you are confident that it won t derail your spirit and cause you to abandon ideas. - Have fun and don t wait until the week before school to start to begin working on your journal. I can tell when work is rushed and will grade you accordingly.
Anatomical/Skeletal Project= 100 POINTS Objective: Create an artwork using human anatomy in an inventive and imaginary way. - USE CANVAS BOARD IF PAINTING, WATERCOLOR PAPER IF INKING AND WATERCOLORING, POSTER BOARD/ILLUSTRATION BOARD IF DRAWING OR USING COLOR PENCIL, INK (SHARPIES), MARKERS OR PASTELS - Must be at least 18 x 24 see teacher for materials or buy your own. DRAWING EXAMPLES 2D DESIGN EXAMPLES
WHAT IS DUE WHEN YOU RETURN Upon returning to school you must o Have a binder with plastic sleeves and dividers, the Summer Project Instructions handout, completed AP STUDIO ART THINK SHEET, and AP Studio Art syllabus (print out from school/teacher link or art website lmhsfinearts.com). o Must bring summer project and all artworks in a portfolio to be stored in class. o Sketchbook with completed assignments ready to present to the class. o Photography students (2D portfolio)- slide show of summer project ready to present. Print out slide show and include in Binder. Possible Concentration Ideas from the AP College Board Website: An exploration of patterns and designs found in nature and/or culture A series of works that begins with representational interpretations and evolves into abstraction A series of landscapes based upon personal experience of a particular place in which composition and light are used to intensify artistic expression Design and execution of a children s book Abstractions developed from cells and other microscopic images Interpretive portraiture or figure studies that emphasize dramatic composition A personal or family history communicated through symbols or imagery Making the Ordinary Extraordinary The True Self is a Disturbing Character Family Matters Once or Daily Observations If Writing did not exist The Delights of the Flesh Tensions all around us The Family Portrait Colors I ve Never Seen Before Unique Perspectives Id vs. Ego Ghosts vs. Memories Privacy Romancing the Unknown Breaking down Barriers Objectification Power Relationships One Flight Down Homelessness Poverty Teen Violence Bullying Any Social/Political Issue Anxiety The Five Senses The Seven Deadly Sins The Seven Heavenly Virtues - My community and culture