AP Studio Art Summer Assignment

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1 AP Studio Art Summer Assignment Due date: You will present all your summer work during critique on the first day of class. Assessment: The grade for all 2 components of the summer project will constitute 50% of your first quarter grade. Refer to the rubric for more detailed expectations and assessment. Contact Information: If you need to get advice from me this summer, me at swiedmann@cathedralcatholic.org. You can also attach a photo of a work. Rational for Summer Projects: You will be able to use these summer assignments in their AP portfolios. Spending time making quality images during the summer will cut down on how many portfolio images you will have to create. Hence providing more time during the shortened school year (due to early AP test dates) to concentrate on quality pieces and feel less rushed. You will familiarize yourself with the more challenging requirements in art production of this AP course. You will work independently and self-directed. In this manner, you will learn time management skills as they pertain to art production. You will also learn to create assignments based on your own experiences, knowledge, and interest and not rely on continuous input and direction give by a teacher. You will learn to understand the difference between copying works from an existing image and altering and creating original works of art based on you own experiences, knowledge, and interest. You are assigned projects, which will not permit you to simply copy a photo, online image, or another artist s work, or technique. 1) DRAWING ASSIGNMENTS: This summer, execute three art works. Follow the instructions listed below very carefully. These works need to represent a finished product, not a sketch. If you draw in the sketchbook, only use one side of the page to prevent smearing of one drawing onto another. You can also use any other drawing and painting surface or size, as long as it does not exceed 16 x 22. If you use charcoal, be sure to fix your drawings with Spray Fixative or aerosol hair spray. To fix a drawing, shake the bottle well to prevent drips and spray an even coating, holding the bottle about two feet away from the work, holding the car upright. Do this outdoors or in a ventilated area. All drawings need to exhibit a wide range of values, close observation of the subject, dynamic and balanced compositions (no centered objects with large negative space),

2 varied line quality, and a focal point. Chose an interesting composition and subject matter, with a little edge to it. But most importantly, it is always preferred that you work from real life observation. If this is not possible, it is permitted to use your own photographs as a reference tool, although, less desirable. Never copy images from magazines or the Internet. Subtractive graphite drawing. Leafy plants or an abstraction of organic forms will prove workable for this assignment. Rub powdered graphite into Bristol board until you have a smooth tone of light gray. Begin drawing with light pencil lines using hard grade of graphite; add darker shading with softer graphite and erase out white. A firm eraser cut to a find, sharp edge helps you to lift out narrow white lines and small, precise areas of light. Working with an extra piece of paper under your hand will prevent smudging. Cityscape: Linear perspective architectural drawing or painting use a ruler and precise vanishing points. While you may not have a metropolitan view outside your window, do not neglect the urban setting in your search for subject matter. In older communities that have not been transformed by urban renewal, commercial buildings, particularly those facing away from the street, often provide considerable visual interest. Rooftop and window designs of older apartment buildings or structured buildings in industrial areas. Notice the pattern of light and shadow as it streams between buildings in early morning or near sunset. The subject might not be picture-postcard material. Search for the innercity peculiarities and visually reinvent them. Draw from the most interesting sights you find. Try this first with any dry media, establishing a wide and interesting range of lights to dark. If you wish you can also use wet media later. Don t hesitate to exaggerate the play of lights and darks. The point is to see acutely the detail in the ranges of values changes and shifts of light on surfaces that are ubiquitous to city fife in an effort to draw out the beauty from within, just as any landscape artist would do wit the countryside. I am not looking for a zoomed-out street view, which might end up looking like an exercise in perspective drawing.

3 Rooms that have been accessorized for magazine photographs are very different from the rooms we occupy daily. Without changing a position of anything in your room, study areas through a viewfinder and select an interesting composition. Draw this in a medium of your choice. As you draw, use all the facets of medial variation in order to heighten visual effects and artistic expression. Try to find an interesting angle and section of your room and draw it exactly as you see it: something is lost when you contrive a certain look to a lived in or worked in space. Again, I am not looking for a well-decorated, neat room, or an IKEA catalog image. Incorporate a strong light source and shading. 2) CONCENTRATION IDEAS IN SKETCHBOOK: Over the summer you also need to consider a theme/subject/ studio investigation you want to pursue in depth next year for the concentration component of your AP portfolio. In the Resource section, please study the list of successful and less successful concentration ideas and the trite list for images as well as themes not to use. In your sketchbook, write down three ideas from the list and add two of you own. Use this list as a guide to develop a series of brainstorming sketches (at least two per idea) and some written thoughts to help you investigate areas of concentration. Unlike the drawing assignments, these can be quick working sketches. Also, collect a minimum of 20 visual ideas (photos, magazine cut-outs, images of other artist s works, etc.) relating to the concentration ideas you feel most drawn to.

4 Some of you will have the opportunity to attend a summer program at an art schools. I will consider any work you did there instead of the sketchbook assignments listed above. However, the concentration ideas and 3 drawing assignments still need to be complete. Art courses are offered year round at the following San Diego locations: Art Academy of San Diego (619) th Street (North Park) San Diego, CA San Diego Museum of Art (619) El Prado (Balboa Park) San Diego, CA San Diego Art Department (619) Ray St (North Park) San Diego, CA Athenaeum (858) Wall Street (La Jolla and North Park) La Jolla, CA San Diego City College San Diego Community College Miramar College Or any other junior colleges

5 1) DRAWING ASSIGNMENTS Print out this rubric and bring to class with your 3 drawings and sketchbook Name: Period: First rate yourself on the small lines provided by assigning a + for something you did well, a for something you did ok, and a - for something you did not do or need to do better. The give yourself a grade (100 points for each assignment) Title/Description of Art Work: Subtractive, graphite drawing of organic form Design/Composition Choice of background Work fills the picture plane Contains a variety of sizes Composition is balanced Use of detail Lines going off the page Composition is unified Use of a variety of shapes Contains overlapping Interesting use of space Overall use of value Elements are repeated Contains good contrast in value Craftsmanship/Following Directions Accuracy of drawings, shading Neatness, use of the media Creativity of the overall idea Creative use of the media Impact on viewer Drawing has edge to it Correct size (no smaller than 8x10, or larger than 16x22) Drawing based on summer assignment requirements Originality and drawn from real life observation Title/Description of Art Work: Exterior architectural detail drawing Design/Composition Choice of background Work fills the picture plane Contains a variety of sizes Composition is balanced Use of detail, zoomed in Lines going off the page Composition is unified Use of a variety of shapes Contains overlapping Interesting use of space Overall use of value Elements are repeated Contains good contrast in value Craftsmanship/Following Directions Accuracy of drawings, shading Neatness, use of the media Creativity of the overall idea Creative use of the media Impact on viewer Drawing has edge to it Correct size (no smaller than 8x10, or larger than 16x22) Drawing based on summer assignment requirements Originality and drawn from real life observation

6 Title/Description of Art Work: Interior space with character Design/Composition Choice of background Work fills the picture plane Contains a variety of sizes Composition is balanced Use of detail, zoomed in Lines going off the page Composition is unified Use of a variety of shapes Contains overlapping Interesting use of space Overall use of value Elements are repeated Contains good contrast in value Craftsmanship/Following Directions Accuracy of drawings, shading Neatness, use of the media Creativity of the overall idea Creative use of the media Impact on viewer Drawing has edge to it Correct size (no smaller than 8x10, or larger than 16x22) Drawing based on summer assignment requirements Originality and drawn from real life observation You will lose credit for the following: No name or period (-3 points) Late project (-10% per period) Incomplete scoring guide (-3points) 2) CONCENTRATION IDEAS IN SKETCHBOOK Idea #1 Idea is listed on concentration ideas list Idea #2 Idea is listed on concentration ideas list

7 Idea #3 Idea is listed on concentration ideas list Idea #4 Idea is student s own suggestion and inspiration Idea #5 Idea is student s own suggestion and inspiration You will lose credit for the following: Incomplete scoring guide (-3points) Late project (-10% per period) Work not presented in sketchbook (-20) No name on sketchbook (-3)