AP STUDIO ART SUMMER WORK 2017 Pre-AP PHOTO Portfolio Coffey s cell: (941)457-7183 Check out AP central: http://studioartportfolios.collegeboard.org/ For Summer, You will need: a digital SLR with a memory card (8GB or larger), and card reader or camera USB cable a flash drive (8GB or larger)
a sketchbook journal to jot ideas down, make sketches in, and do all Museum visits, Mini concentrations, and Photographer Studies (below) in. Photoshop CC 5.5 installed on your home computer. ($9.99/month at adobe.com!) Be sure your image size setting is set to RAW+FINE on your camera. Back up ALL photo shoots into folders on your computer right afterward, and backup ALL FOLDERS onto Drive! Always shoot at the LOWEST ISO setting POSSIBLE! Edit in Camera Raw in Photoshop! You would save Maximum size JPEGS to turn in but always save those RAW, or PSD, or TIFF files on your backup. Be sure your images are saved at a minimum resolution 240 DPI, at least 8 x 12. (In PS: Image>Image Size> Document Size) Be familiar with your camera, and use Aperture and Shutter Speed PURPOSEFULLY for the effects you want. ALWAYS backup your work right after a photo shoot, saving in at least TWO, preferably three locations at all times. No excuses for losing work on a memory card or flash drive when the work was not backed up in a second location. In Photoshop, ALWAYS edit all of your final images. If not in Camera RAW, then do LEVELS, at least, and other basic adjustments to make ALL your images reach their full potential! Grayscale any images you feel are stronger for their design if grayscaled. Image> Adjustments> Black and White Part 3 and 5 (below) will need to be put into a PowerPoint presentation for turning in and presenting to the class! All of the following summer work is due on the first day back to school. If it is not complete, a schedule change may be suggested. The Three C s are the evaluation guide for every work of art. Make it strong in: Creativity/concept (make your idea, your approach, stand OUT from the rest!) Composition (use design principles and compositional devices at all times) Craftsmanship (at least 10 hours into each piece, showing your best technique and value range)
DUE JUNE 12/ Compositional Devices See our Google Classroom for my powerpoints covering this. Learn all about the NINE Compositional Devices. Explore different ways to use each of them, Shoot at least 20 for each, and then create one keeper for each of the 9 devices. Do a page in your Process Book for each device. CLEARLY LABEL each device page, include at least one magazine example, and include one photo of your own to demonstrate it. Part 2: BREADTH Challenges PART 3: Breadth Challenges (put these into Powerpoint) 1. DUE JUNE 19 Bike Composition Choose a unique, interesting angle and DIRECT LIGHTING. Use cast shadows as part of the design. Considering using JUXTAPOSITION for added creativity. Emphasis on positive/negative space. Use a Compositional Device! 2. DUE JULY 3 Create a work based on the term power. Interpret this from any angle you like. Use symbolism. Any medium. USE REFERENCES (this means photo or real life references but do NOT draw from your head!)! Emphasis on CREATIVITY, COMPOSITION, CRAFTSMANSHIP. Use a Compositional Device! 3. DUE JULY 17 Self-portrait through a frame. Emphasis on CREATIVITY, COMPOSITION,
CRAFTSMANSHIP. Use a Compositional Device! 4. DUE JULY 31 PATTERNS in Nature. Do a google image search using the terms to the left. Also, google "Fractal Patterns", or click here. Which patterns are most interesting to you? Fill your composition with a detailed examination of a natural patterns. Create a series of nine images, each showing a different pattern in nature. Then, combine them all together into a 3x3 grid in Photoshop. Use a Compositional Device! DUE AUG 10 but start now- 5. Photographic Scavenger Hunt The following images must be taken BY YOU and SAVED to a flash drive or memory card, and brought to school on day one: Five different scenes down a hallway, path, road, or river, Shot from the middle. Open the hood: car engines Construction equipment Plumbing pipes (under a sink) Trash can/ garbage truck and its contents Lock, padlocks, chains, keys
Self-portraits (5 different angles) Where the sidewalk meets the road Closeups of things you like Figures- still, in motion, playing sports, etc EXTRA- DUE August 10! Proportion/Scale. Breaking the space. During your summer days, travels or no travels, look for wide open spaces that seem limitless to you. Spaces that make you feel small, as a tiny human on this grand planet Earth. Using your widest focal length (18mm) and your smallest aperture size, photograph the space. Maybe even use a Hockney approach (google Hockney photocollages). Then, try to capture the expansive space with a small human breaking the space, just by being in it. Review your images. Is it working? DUE AUG.10 6. Mini Concentrations (put these into Powerpoint) To prepare you for planning for your Concentration Section of your AP Portfolio (this is different from the Breadth Section), do the following. FIRST: VISIT www.collegeboard.com/apstudents for examples and LOTs of information and student examples of AP Studio work. Find some you haven t seen before. Make a list of TWO djfferent possible themes you would like to explore in the concentration part of your portfolio. A. Write a paragraph about each idea. 1. Why does this idea appeal to you? 2. How is this an original and unique idea? B. Make and print TWO photos that would fit into this (each) concentration.
Starter Options: -but remember you can and should choose your own similarly concentrated idea. defining the word uncommon Reflection Design elements in architecture Inside looking out Design in nature Creating the new cover girl MOUNT the PRINTS in your Sketchbook, with your paragraph. EXTRA! Due Aug 10- Photographer Studies Do online or library research on any TWO of the following photographers. Do a double page spread in your Process Book on each one, and on it, include 2 printouts of their most wellknown works, with all credits given ( credits means Artist s name, Title, Year Done). On the double page spread, include all of the following: Their name, years born and died, type of photography, why they re so well known, how to recognize their work websites or sources you used. Berenice Abbott Ansel Adams Diane Arbus Eugene Atget Richard Avedon Bernd and Hilda Becher Margaret Bourke-White Brassai Irving Penn Eliot Porter Man Ray Cindy Sherman Edward Steichen Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand Weegee Edward Weston Garry Winogrand Robert Capa Henri Cartier-Bresson Imogen Cunningham Robert Doisneau William Eggleston Walker Evans Lee Friedlander Lewis Hine Dorothea Lange Sally Mann Joel Meyerowitz
EXTRA! Due Aug 10- Museum/ Gallery Visits *Visit at least one of the following three museums, or if out of town, visit any museum or gallery. Photo exhibits are BEST, but other types of exhibits are also beneficial! 1. Take your PROCESS BOOK along, and while in the gallery or museum, write a review of the exhibit, highlighting two works which particularly struck you as powerful. 2. Do a sketch or take a photo of the works and include them in your PROCESS BOOK review. 3. Also add your ticket, armband, sticker, or receipt! St. Pete Museum of Fine Arts Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota) Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Naples Museum of Art Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center Art League of Bonita Springs