Summer Work for AP Studio Art |
GRADING CRITERIA |
5 Complete Compositions
MEDIUM OF YOUR CHOICE
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Sketchbook
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Idea book
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5 COMPLETE COMPOSITIONS
USE THE PROMPTS BELOW TO GUIDE YOUR COMPOSITIONS, in addition to the concerns specific to your portfolio exam.
AP STUDIO 2D ART CONCERNS
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AP DRAW ART CONCERNS
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AP STUDIO 3D ART CONCERNS
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TRY TO EXPRESS YOUR UNIQUE VOICE AND STYLE WITH YOUR WORK, rather than copying the style of someone on the internet.
project one: COLOR SCHEME
Create a composition in which color is a dominant subject. Color should control the viewer's eye movement through the composition, or otherwise emphasize or focus the viewer's gaze.
- USE A LIMITED COLOR PALETTE
- CONTROL WHAT IS EMPHASIZED
- CONSIDER HOW COLOR CAN DOMINATE THE SUBJECT
2D
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Draw
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3D
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project two: COMMENTARY or NARRATIVE
Create a composition that tells one moment in a larger narrative or creates a specific point of view on a topic. Action, movement, and verbs should be important elements in your composition. Your main characters can be as representational or as abstract as your style dictates, but your composition must convey a visual story or position.
- USE DRAMATIC VANTAGE POINTS, ANGLES, OR DIAGONALS TO MOVE THE VIEWER'S EYE THROUGH THE COMPOSITION
- USE MOVEMENT, RHYTHM, OR REPETITION TO CREATE AN ACTION
- CONSIDER HOW THE VIEWER WILL KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT EACH ELEMENT - IS THERE A PROTAGONIST?
- CONSIDER WHAT THE MOOD YOU WANT TO CREATE (LIGHT, SHADOW, COLOR, DEPTH)
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project three: PORTRAIT
Create a composition that focuses the viewer on a subject. Portraits can be set in a scene or isolated in the frame. Portraits can, but do not have to, include a face. Emphasis on the subject matter is key to conveying that the work is a portrait. The composition can be in landscape (wider than tall), square, or portrait (taller than wide) format.
- CONSIDER DETAIL, SPECIFICITY, AND CONVEYING AN EXPRESSION OR EMOTION
- CONSIDER HOW YOU WILL FOCUS THE VEIWER'S ATTENTION
- CONSIDER FRAMING - WHAT WILL THE SUPPORTING ELEMENTS BE TO CREATE LASTING VISUAL INTEREST
- CONSIDER HOW YOU WILL USE COLOR, REPETITION, DETAIL, ETC. TO CONTROL THE VIEWER'S EYE THROUGH THE COMPOSITION
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project four: LANDSCAPE or PLACE
Create a composition that reflects on a place, can hold figures or objects in space, and shows volume. Your composition can be full of movement or very still. It can be fantastical or describing the world as it is. It can be full of details and text, fast gestural marks, or vast open spaces. With each choice, consider how you are controlling the viewer's eye movement through the composition, framing the focal point(s), and creating enough for the viewer to engage with for longer than 10 seconds.
- CONSIDER HOW LIGHTING, SHADOWS, AND HIGHLIGHTS CAN BE USED TO FOCUS THE VIEWER'S ATTENTION
- CONSIDER HOW NEGATIVE SPACE CAN BE USED AS A FRAMING DEVICE
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project five: ABSTRACTION or STYLIZED
Create a composition with a unique aesthetic. Use your rendering, mark making, color palette, and/or spacial relationships to project your artistic voice. Your composition should be a bold announcement of your artistic vision.
- USE A UNIQUE STYLE
- ABSTRACT FORMS/CONTENT TO PORTRAY A PARTICULAR VANTAGE POINT, PERSONALITY, AND POINT OF VIEW
- CONSIDER HOW YOU WILL FRAME YOUR COMPOSITION, HOW YOU WILL CREATE EMPHASIS TO SHOW THE VIEWER WHICH ASPECTS ARE IMPORTANT, AND HOW YOU WILL DIRECT THE VIEWER'S EYE THROUGH VISUAL SPACE
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Sketchbook
- ONE PAGE, 5 DAYS A WEEK, MINIMUM. Filled image area should be at least 5" x 7" every day.
- CROP AND FILL. Do not make dinky little drawing in the center. Go off edges whenever possible. Fill the page.
- MIXED MEDIUM. Draw, write, scribble, paint, glue, cut, tear, re-do, cover over, work the surface.
- VISUAL CONFIDENCE. No cute, pretty, precious, adorable images. Challenge yourself visually.
- VOLUME. Use light and depth in at least ten images.
- OBSERVATION. Make at least 20 contour drawings from the world around you. Remember to use the whole page. Look up Felix Scheinberger.
- TYPOGRAPHY. Practice recreating different fonts and typography you see in the world. Incorporate the text into a composition.
- WRITE. Write about what you think is working in your sketchbook and what you think needs work or is weak in some area. Use the elements of art and principles of design to be specific in your criticism or praise.
- EXPERIMENTATION. Your sketchbook should have evidence of trial and error, learning, and growth. Here are some examples of ways to show growth and experimentation: Compose a scene multiple times choosing different framing each time. Rework a composition multiple times using different color palettes. Produce several drawings of one object from different angles to find the best negative space around the figure.
IF YOU DRAW FACES OF PEOPLE OR ANIMALS, DRAW IN 3/4 PERSPECTIVE - NO PROFILES, NO STRAIGHT ON.
You will turn this in as original artwork, not digital copies of original artwork.
Your sketchbook can be a bound book, or a collection of pieces of paper that you keep together.
It is up to you to decide what shape and style sketchbook to keep.
Your sketchbook can be a bound book, or a collection of pieces of paper that you keep together.
It is up to you to decide what shape and style sketchbook to keep.
Ideabook
- 100 WORKS OF ART THAT YOU LIKE. Collect visual ideas that you feel represent strong design; good use of compositional space, excellent use of color, innovative use of line, etc.
- QUALITY WORK. Don't just pick the first 100 things google told you were art. You will use this as a style reference pool for your own work throughout the year. If you were to emulate the work you selected, you would want it to be an AP 5 score.
- ORGANIZATION. You should organize the images so that they are more useful to you. You can choose to organize them by style, content, theme, or on their technical merits (Elements of Art, Principles of Design). It is more likely technical merits will be useful than by medium, theme, or content.
- GOOD SOURCES. Google may not be the best collator of great artwork. Try websites that do that work for you. For instance; museums, galleries, thisiscolossal.com, thingsorganizedneatly.com, art slant. Or, go to museums and galleries and take pictures of artwork that interests you.
- FORMAT. You can turn the images in digitally or in paper format. Each image should have the artists name connected to it. The DIGITAL format could look like one of two things: a Google Drive folder filled with 100 images, each with the artist's name as the file name; or, a Google Slides presentation with an image and artist name on each slide, plus a google folder with the images unorganized. The ANALOG format could look like a binder, book, or portfolio of 100 images printed out with Artist Names written on each page.
THE IDEABOOK IS USED BY YOU FOR YOUR GREAT IDEAS.
IT IS USED BY YOUR TEACHER TO GET A SENSE OF YOUR ARTISTIC STYLE AND GIVE YOU BETTER ADVICE AND FEEDBACK.
IT IS USED BY YOUR TEACHER TO GET A SENSE OF YOUR ARTISTIC STYLE AND GIVE YOU BETTER ADVICE AND FEEDBACK.