AP Studio Art Content
AP Studio Art students work with diverse media, styles, subjects, and content. Each of the three portfolios consists of three sections:
• The Breadth section illustrates a range of ideas and approaches to art making.
• The Concentration section shows sustained, deep, and multiperspective investigation of a student-selected topic.
• The Quality section represents the student’s most successful works with respect to form and content.
Works in this section may be selected from the other two sections. Students’ work is informed and guided by observation, research, experimentation, discussion, critical analysis, and reflection, relating individual practices to the art world. Students are asked to document their artistic ideas and practices to demonstrate conceptual and technical development over time. The AP Studio Art Program supports students in becoming inventive artistic scholars who contribute to visual culture through art making.
Format of Assessment
Section I: Quality | 5 actual works for 2-D and Drawing, 12 digital images for 3-D | 33% of Portfolio Score
Demonstrate mastery of design in concept, composition, and execution
Section II: Concentration | 12 digital images | 33% of Portfolio Score
• Describe an in-depth explanation of a particular design concern
Section III: Breadth | 12 digital images for 2-D and Drawing, 16 digital images for 3-D | 33% of Portfolio Score
We will be working on the 12 pieces for the Breadth part of the requirement in the fall. By December it should be completed and we will start with the Concentration part.
AP Studio Art students work with diverse media, styles, subjects, and content. Each of the three portfolios consists of three sections:
• The Breadth section illustrates a range of ideas and approaches to art making.
• The Concentration section shows sustained, deep, and multiperspective investigation of a student-selected topic.
• The Quality section represents the student’s most successful works with respect to form and content.
Works in this section may be selected from the other two sections. Students’ work is informed and guided by observation, research, experimentation, discussion, critical analysis, and reflection, relating individual practices to the art world. Students are asked to document their artistic ideas and practices to demonstrate conceptual and technical development over time. The AP Studio Art Program supports students in becoming inventive artistic scholars who contribute to visual culture through art making.
Format of Assessment
Section I: Quality | 5 actual works for 2-D and Drawing, 12 digital images for 3-D | 33% of Portfolio Score
Demonstrate mastery of design in concept, composition, and execution
Section II: Concentration | 12 digital images | 33% of Portfolio Score
• Describe an in-depth explanation of a particular design concern
Section III: Breadth | 12 digital images for 2-D and Drawing, 16 digital images for 3-D | 33% of Portfolio Score
We will be working on the 12 pieces for the Breadth part of the requirement in the fall. By December it should be completed and we will start with the Concentration part.
AP STUDIO AND ART 3 Sketchbooks FALL semester. There will be 8 sketchbooks this semester- one every week. They are due either on Thursday or Friday depending when it is an A day.
SKETCHBOOKS ARE AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR IMPROVING YOUR DRAWING SKILLS - JUST COMPLETING SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENTS ON TIME WILL ENHANCE YOUR GRADE SIGNIFICANTLY; MISSING ASSIGNMENTS WILL HURT YOUR GRADE SIGNIFICANTLY! YOU CAN EARN EXTRA CREDIT FOR DOING MORE THAN ASSIGNED; HOWEVER, EXTRA CREDIT WILL ONLY BE AWARDED IF ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE COMPLETED AND UP TO DATE!!!
SKETCHBOOKS ARE AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR IMPROVING YOUR DRAWING SKILLS - JUST COMPLETING SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENTS ON TIME WILL ENHANCE YOUR GRADE SIGNIFICANTLY; MISSING ASSIGNMENTS WILL HURT YOUR GRADE SIGNIFICANTLY! YOU CAN EARN EXTRA CREDIT FOR DOING MORE THAN ASSIGNED; HOWEVER, EXTRA CREDIT WILL ONLY BE AWARDED IF ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE COMPLETED AND UP TO DATE!!!
HOMEWORK ONE:
• Line Quality: Create a drawing that shows form using just line. Form is created by adding cross contour lines within the object. Draw in your object(s) with a pencil using only solid line. Then add cross contour lines that transverse the interior areas of the object to show form. Vary the line to increase it’s visual quality - darker/lighter, thinner/thicker... Utilize the entire page.
For more information:
http://www.ndoylefineart.com/drawexercise1.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3LiR_pvsU
• Line Quality: Create a drawing that shows form using just line. Form is created by adding cross contour lines within the object. Draw in your object(s) with a pencil using only solid line. Then add cross contour lines that transverse the interior areas of the object to show form. Vary the line to increase it’s visual quality - darker/lighter, thinner/thicker... Utilize the entire page.
For more information:
http://www.ndoylefineart.com/drawexercise1.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3LiR_pvsU
HOMEWORK TWO:
Draw a perfect shaded sphere and have a creature from your imagination come out of it.
You make have it come out of a crack, a door, a window, a hole or just an opening.
Draw it as big as you can on your sketchbook. Use Pencil
Draw a perfect shaded sphere and have a creature from your imagination come out of it.
You make have it come out of a crack, a door, a window, a hole or just an opening.
Draw it as big as you can on your sketchbook. Use Pencil
WEEK TWO:
• Shoes Too: Create a drawing that includes a drawing of a shoe. Incorporate the shoe or shoes seamlessly into your drawing in the most creative way you can. Utilize the entire sketchbook page.
• Shoes Too: Create a drawing that includes a drawing of a shoe. Incorporate the shoe or shoes seamlessly into your drawing in the most creative way you can. Utilize the entire sketchbook page.
WEEK THREE:
• Magnification: Using pencil or colored pencil, fill an entire page of your sketchbook with an extreme closeup drawing of one object; pay special attention to texture and value; show as much detail as possible... LOOK at what you are drawing!
WEEK FOUR:
• Unique Viewpoint: Create a composition that shows an extremely unique viewpoint of an object (looking OUT of a paper bag, up at a sky scraper from the sidewalk, out a doorway seen in a mirror, etc). Draw an object/scene that is within this viewpoint. Pay attention to perspective, foreshortening, and/or proportions. Review ‘foreshortening’ at:
http://www.openc.k12.or.us/start/visual/glosv.html#F
http://thevirtualinstructor.com/foreshortened-figure-art-lesson-plan.html
WEEK FIVE:
• Real and Imaginary: Create a drawing of a real object or objects doing some kind of action that only humans do. Use your creativity! Utilize the entire page! The drawing should look real but be 'not possible'.
WEEK SIX:
• Negative Space Drawing: Choose an object that has interesting ‘spaces’ - like a kitchen chair, a plant or a collection of objects. Create a composition by drawing the negative space only. Look for and draw the shapes that you see in between the positive areas of the object. Fill the negative areas with a solid color. Utilize the entire page!
• Real and Imaginary: Create a drawing of a real object or objects doing some kind of action that only humans do. Use your creativity! Utilize the entire page! The drawing should look real but be 'not possible'.
WEEK SIX:
• Negative Space Drawing: Choose an object that has interesting ‘spaces’ - like a kitchen chair, a plant or a collection of objects. Create a composition by drawing the negative space only. Look for and draw the shapes that you see in between the positive areas of the object. Fill the negative areas with a solid color. Utilize the entire page!
WEEK SEVEN:
• Mixed Media: Create a composition using collage and drawing media mixed together. Utilize the entire page and draw specific objects. Use the collage media as drawing media, not as “scrapbook objects” - blend the drawing media and collage media seamlessly within the composition. Feel free to “damage” the page - cut, fold, stab, glue on pockets, textures, etc. Be creative!! Show form, value and variety!! If you like you can use water color paper, poster board or mat board to do this assignment.
• Mixed Media: Create a composition using collage and drawing media mixed together. Utilize the entire page and draw specific objects. Use the collage media as drawing media, not as “scrapbook objects” - blend the drawing media and collage media seamlessly within the composition. Feel free to “damage” the page - cut, fold, stab, glue on pockets, textures, etc. Be creative!! Show form, value and variety!! If you like you can use water color paper, poster board or mat board to do this assignment.
WEEK EIGHT:
• Size Relationship: Choose two objects which have a relationship to one another but are not the same size at all. (Like: the front door and a key -- or -- the refrigerator and an apple.) Draw the two different sized objects as if they are the same size, and draw them so they have a new relationship at the new size. Be inventive! Think up your own two related objects, and observe and draw their details carefully. Plan an interesting composition on the page.
• Size Relationship: Choose two objects which have a relationship to one another but are not the same size at all. (Like: the front door and a key -- or -- the refrigerator and an apple.) Draw the two different sized objects as if they are the same size, and draw them so they have a new relationship at the new size. Be inventive! Think up your own two related objects, and observe and draw their details carefully. Plan an interesting composition on the page.