Due Friday, Nov 7

These three blog assignments are due on Tuesday, November 11
at the beginning of class. Be prepared to show your 5 inspirations.
Blog Assignment 1 (100 pts)
See this website:
http://lhsap2d0809lindseyi.blogspot.com/
List your five artistic heroes in five blog entries.
Post an image from each of their work on your blog.
Title of piece-artistic style
What is their mentor appeal to you?
(List at least two reasons they appeal to you)

Blog assignment 2 (50 pts)
Critique each other students’ work by posting to their blog:
Look at the posted images on the blog and respond in a blog comment to each person’s most recent blog entry the following three comments with your name.
1. Which do you think their three strongest pieces thus far?
2. Which is your absolute favorite?
3. Thoughts to improve two pieces?

Blog assignment 3 (50 pts)
Concentration development
Write three sentences about the ideas you propose for your concentration.
(at this point in time)

bicycle #6 or concentration #1

Use a bicycle as the subject for your work this week.
Due Monday, November 3rd at the beginning of class.

Concentration Worksheet

A.P. STUDIO Art

Idea Development Packet

This packet must be completed in its entirety.
This packet is meant to help you generate meaningful ideas and hopefully learn to explore your ideas beyond your initial thoughts. The creative process is crucial to your development as an artist. I want you to learn how to make your work say something literally or symbolically.
I would like you to explain in detail your idea:

Types of themes: Circle the one that best describes your idea.

Still Life Portrait Self-Portrait Figure Landscape Abstract

Seascape Object Narrative Mythical Historical Illustrative
DESCRIPTION: Briefly describe the theme or nature of your work. In other words, what will your drawing/designs/sculptures be about?
MOOD: Describe the mood you would like your work to convey and how you plan to achieve this.
COLOR SCHEMES: Think of colors that can be used to enhance the visual interest of the work.
ANGLE OF VIEW: Describe the angle that you will use to create visual interest. (Ants Eye, Birds Eye, Foreshortened, 3⁄4 View, Forced Perspective, Distortion)
MEDIA/TECHNIQUE: What media or mediums and techniques do you plan to use?
VISUAL REFERENCES: What will your visual references be and how/where will you get them?
PAPER(S) and SIZE(S): What support, size and orientation will be used to complete the work?




Creating Thumbnail Sketches
The Artistic Process
THE SKETCH:
Inside your sketchbook, please adhere this worksheet to the page. Next, begin drawing out your ideas in the form of a quick thumbnail sketch using all the information you’ve gathered from above. You must complete
a Vertical and a Horizontal composition. Then choose the sketch that works the best and rework it into a more finished sketch inside your sketchbook.

STEP 1:
Thumbnail Sketches are Shorthand Notes for Artists:

Thumbnail sketches are small, roughly drawn images quickly committed to paper. Drawn effortlessly and in rapid succession, they appear as nothing more than doodles to untrained eyes. Thumbnail sketches are, in
fact, the most efficient mode of illustrative brainstorming and a source of potentially rich fodder for subsequent finished imagery.

Use thumbnail sketches to develop the most effective layout, balance, tone, shading, and color palettes. Working out image tonal areas, color, and shadings before committing yourself to finished media saves time and materials.

STEP 2:
Reworking the thumbnail sketch into a small scale version of your idea:
o Next, take your most successful thumbnail sketch and rework it into a small scale drawing in your sketchbook.
o This drawing should be about 4”x6” or 5”x7” inches at the most. NO BIGGER!!!
o This is not a finished drawing it just acts as a color and compositional study. The drawing will most likely be crude and ruff. That is okay.
o Now add color to this sketch. Please don’t spend hours on this…IT”S ONLY A QUICK SKETCH!!!!
o Please don’t spend more than 20-30 minutes on this step.

STEP 3:
Self Evaluation Process:
Look at your work and make an honest evaluation of it at this point. It’s better to do it now, rather than on the good paper. Right your response inside of your sketchbook along with all your sketches for the artwork.
Ask yourself the following questions:
o What am I trying to say? Am I saying it?
o What’s the focal point or center of interest?
o Content. What is it and why have I chosen it?
o Is this cliché or the simple, easy response to the problem?
o What mood have I established? How can you tell? Do I need to establish mood?
o What is the viewpoint? Why have you choose that viewpoint? Is it doing anything for the work? Should it be from a different angle or vantage point?
o Have I established depth and/or movement?

The list goes on and on, but I think you get the idea. Just keep
questioning yourself and why you do what you do? These questions and
answers will hopefully establish a deeper work of art.

Breadth worksheet

A.P. STUDIO Art

Breadth Synopsis
This packet is meant to help you assess your recent work and breadth development. The creative process is crucial to your development as an artist. I want you to learn how to make your work say something literally or symbolically. Here is a checklist of the elements and principles of design.
Please assign each project- which element or principle that it is aligned to.
Project list: List all of your projects thus far (you should have at least 5). Print out thumbnails of all of these projects and attach to this sheet.
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2D
Unity
Variety
Rhythm
Proportion
Scale
Balance
Emphasis
Contrast
Repetition
Drawing
Figure/Ground Relationship
Form
Content
Tonal Values
Line Quality
Perspective and other spatial systems
Composition
Drawing Surface
Depth
Pattern
Means of Representation and Abstraction
Materials
Techniques
Styles etc.
What do you like about your work?

Types of themes: What are you missing and what projects do you need to do?
Still Life Portrait Self-Portrait Figure Landscape Abstract
Seascape Object Narrative Mythical Historical Illustrative
What do you need to work on?

figure drawing Thursday Project 6

We have a model scheduled for Thursday, use this class to make a project based on the figure.
Breadth worksheet due Friday at the beginning of class.
Concentration worksheet due Monday at the beginning of class.

ppt

The cardboard powerpoint is on moodle.
Check it out for images.

project 5 art of cardboard

Sketchbook homework
•Please sketch 3 ideas you feel would make good projects for your cardboard design.
•Make some drawings/collages/color pieces/photos in your sketchbook that reflect some of the ideas you have about making a project with cardboard as your main material.
Research what type or style of music you would like to interpret.
Choose your materials (there are many types of cardboard) that is especially compelling to you both aesthetically and conceptually. Make these materials come alive in a 2D, Drawing or 3D way. Make a piece that will be acceptable for your portfolio.
Process, methods and ideas
Your design must use cardboard in some way that approaches the integrity of the material.
You must thoughtfully integrate cardboad into your project.
Final project may be 3d, 2d or a drawing or painting.
Due Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at the beginning of class.

project 4 ARt of Music

Sketchbook homework
a.Please sketch 3 ideas you feel would make good projects about The Art of Music due next class period.
b.Make some drawings/collages/color pieces/photos to take in your sketchbook that reflect some of the ideas you have about making a project about sound
Research what type or style of music you would like to interpret.
Choose a piece of Music that is especially compelling to you both aesthetically and conceptually. Make these sounds come alive in a 2D, Drawing or 3D way. Make a piece that will be acceptable for your portfolio.
Process, methods and ideas
Your design must be inspired by or somehow relate audio to visual interpretation.
You must thoughtfully integrate this idea into your project.
Final project may be 3d, 2d or a drawing or painting.
Due Monday, October 6th, 2008 at the beginning of class.