WELCOME TO PRE A.P. DRAWING 2 FOR THE '07-'08 SCHOOL YEAR!
Pre A.P. Drawing 2 is a high level survey class for the development of advanced techniques and skills in design, drawing, painting and printmaking. It is for the student with a serious interest in art, who wants to advance to the A.P. Studio Portfolio courses.
Following is the Pre AP Drawing 2 Syllabus for the year.
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SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE '08-'09 SCHOOL YEAR.
All new Pre AP 2 students must come by to see me before school is out.
PRE AP 2 SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING ART WORKS IN YOUR JOURNAL, OR ON A SEPARATE GROUND. THE WORKS PLUS YOUR JOURNAL WILL BE DUE ON THE 1ST DAY OF CLASS.
1. Create an artwork around a newspaper or magazine image. Alter the image using mixed media, drawing, text, etc.
2. Do 3 self-portraits; each different from the others in the following ways:
a. Media: pencil, pen paint, charcoal, collage, etc.
b. Technique: contour, gesture, hatching, value, etc.
c. Viewpoint: looking up, down, over shoulder, through cracked mirror, etc.
d. Location: indoors at home, in different rooms, on stairs, outdoors, etc.
e. Lighting: front, back, side, low-key, intense, etc.
3. Create an artwork using non-traditional materials or media. These might be: make-up; food substances; natural substances – crushed flower petals, berries, etc.; and other materials such as white out or shoe polish.
4. Make a work of art that is composed only of writing. You may use some meaningful statements, poetry, quotations or ideas for work. Your idea should be both visually complete and work with the text.
5. Do a torn paper collage of a favorite photo of yourself.
Your sketchbook should be your new “best friend” this summer. You need to carry it with you every day, everywhere! Open it up first thing in the morning and last thing at night and many times in between. Draw in it, write in it, scribble in it, paint in it, glue things into it, cut the pages, tear the pages, change the way it looks to make it look like your won book. At the end of the summer it should reflect YOU and your experiences throughout the summer. Work in your sketchbook is an ongoing process that will help you make informed and critical decisions about the progress of your work. Your sketchbook is the perfect place to try a variety of concepts and techniques as your develop your own voice and style.
RULES for working in your sketchbook:
1. DO NOT make “perfect” drawings. Make imperfect drawings; make mistakes; make false starts. Let your hand follow your feelings not what your brain is telling you to do.
2. ALWAYS FILL the page you are working on. Go off the edges whenever possible. Do not make dinky little drawings in the center of the page. Make every square inch count for something.
3. FINISH EVERYTHING. Do not start something and abandon it. Go back later, change it, and make it into something else. Being able to rescue bad beginnings is the sign of a truly creative mind.
4. Always finish what you start no matter how much you don’t like it.
5. Put the date on every page you finish.
6. DO NOT DRAW FROM PHOTOGRAPHS in magazines or on the internet. THE USE OF PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS OR THE WORK OF OTHER ARTISTS FOR DUPLICATION IS PLAGIARISM.
7. NO CUTE, PRETTY, PRECIOUS, ADORABLE OR TRITE images. This is a pre college level art class, not a recreation program to make pretty pictures to hang in your house. Expect your ideas about what makes good art to be challenged.
8. Don’t be boring with your work. Challenge yourself!
9. 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 free spirit.
10. Fill at least one third of your sketchbook by the beginning of school in August.
WAYS TO WORK IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK
§ Draw, draw, draw, paint, collage, mark, print, stamp, draw.
§ Use pencils, pens, crayons, sticks, fingers, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, anything that will make a mark. You have the power to make a mark!
§ Draw what you SEE in the world, not what you think. No drawings from published images (plagiarism). You need to learn to draw without the crutch of someone else’s composition.
§ Use gesture, line, and value in your drawings. Try to create a sense of light and depth in your images.
§ Use the principles of perspective to show depth.
§ Glue into your sketchbook – make a collage. Ticket stubs, gum wrappers, tin foil, lace, lists, receipts, sand, shoe laces, etc. Add these things to pages you don’t like and let your imagination go wild.
§ Build the pages up by layering things, paint on top of collage, newspaper and drawing. Attach pieces of fabric and photographs and paint over parts of them. What are you trying to say?
§ Express yourself! Work to develop mastery in concept, composition and execution of your ideas.
§ Make decisions about what you do based on how things look. Go for the tough look, not the easy solution.
§ Do not be trite. You have something important to say about the world you live in – say it!
JOURNAL AND SKETCHBOOK IDEAS
§ Take a news story and interpret it visually, use abstraction to express new ideas.
§ Play around with geometric and organic forms, interlocking and overlapping to create an interesting composition. Use color to finish the work.
§ Create a self-portrait using distortion, Cubism, Impressionism, Minimalism or Pop.
§ Repeat a shape, color, form, image or idea. Create a strong focal point.
§ Use a photographic reference to illustrate a dream, an illusion, or fantasy. Use a variety of images on which to base your work. Use any medium.
You must take the photographs yourself.
§ Find lyrics of a song, a poem, or even your own writings that inspire you. Illustrate with images.
§ Make a work of art that is composed only of writing. You may use some meaningful statements, poetry, quotations or ideas for work. Your idea should be both visually complete and work with the text.
§ “Light in the Dark”
Using a felt tip marker, black paint, charcoal, pencil or pen/brush and ink; draw an outdoor night scene or a darkly lit interior space. Do a second piece showing the same scene in color.
§ “Respond to an Artist”
Alter a famous artist’s work. Change at least 3 major elements of the work.
§ Create with cut colored paper designs for: Hope, Fear and Anger
§ Do a torn paper collage of a favorite photo of yourself
§ Do a sequence of 3 images showing rebirth / reconstruction / and healing.
§ “Inside the Ball”
Draw / paint what you see in the silver ball. Do not draw your hand or the area around your hand. Try not to center your own image. Format your work in a rectangular shape even though you are drawing a sphere.
§ Make an artwork using one word as your inspiration.
§ Use different or really extreme viewpoints of common subjects.
§ Create many contour drawings from a model. In the inner spaces of these contour drawings create a surface design using text. This text could tell a story, be a series of repeated words, or a single word. The negative space should be used also to continue the surface design idea or be a completely opposite concept.
§ Develop a drawing of a section of a musical instrument and part of its case.
§ Steel monsters. What can you find in building sites, under the hood, inside the computer, in gears, pulleys, etc.?
§ Doorways. Shadows and shapes. What’s behind? Architectural elements.
§ Combine, Add, Transfer, Animate, Superimpose, Change the scale, Hybridize, Metamorphosis, Fragment, Isolate, Distort, Disguise, Contradict
§ Anything and everything that you can see, hear, feel, smell, touch and imagine!
THIS IS YOUR SUPPLY LIST FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR
PRE A.P. 2 SUPPLY LIST
You need to have these supplies for the first week of school.
v PORTFOLIO – Large (24X30)
v PRISMA BRAND COLORED PENCILS (As many as you’d like)
v PRISMA COLORLESS BLENDER
v BLENDING STUMPS
v EBONY PENCILS (2)
v #2 PENCILS (2)
v ERASERS – WHITE SOAP AND KNEADED
v SHARPIES – FINE AND X-FINE BLACK
v MASKING TAPE
v ANY OTHER ART SUPPLIES THAT YOU ENJOY WORKING WITH
v TACKLE BOX WITH A LOCK –Large enough to hold all of your art supplies
v FLASH DRIVE
Note: Hobby Lobby and Michaels often run sales offering half off on certain art supplies (like prisma colors).
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS - remember to turn in your journals!!
Students will have a journal assignment due every Friday. This assignment is an open one, consisting of three "entries" in their journal. These entries may be drawings, writings or observations about any art related ideathat they have.
APRIL NEWS:
FIELD TRIP TO FT. WORTH MUSEUM DISTRICT & JAPANESE GARDENS- Ap. 24 from 8:30 - 3:30
MAY CLASS STUDIO PROJECTS:
ARTIST'S BOOK
Students will design and produce their own artist's book. They will choose subject matter, materials, construction techniques and styles to create this one of a kind work.
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