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We'll discuss the details of the portfolio requirements in September and October. If you are interested in learning more about the portfolio, click here for the AP 2-D Art and Design overview on the CollegeBoard website (it can be confusing, but I will explain it better in person!!). For now, I really just want you to create and make and keep creating and keep making. Think about what kind of art you really like to make (painting, drawing, digital drawing, sewing, multimedia, etc.), what you like to make your art about (landscapes, people, animals, dreams, stories, bugs, etc.), AND what style you like to work in (realism, abstract, figurative, impressionism, still life, portraiture, surrealism, etc.)
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Your sketchbook is going to be a major tool for developing your AP Art portfolio. It should be a place for capturing observations, experimentation, research (written and drawn), planning, and documentation of your artwork development.
You are encouraged to include both written and visual material in your sketchbook! It may include graded sketchbook assignments from me or your own investigations. A sketchbook helps you to think through the stages of the creative process: researching, brainstorming, experimenting, testing, analyzing, and refining compositions. It is a place to document your journey towards a final solution, providing depth and backstory to the accompanying artwork. A sketchbook is important!!
Assignments/Prompts
Assignments/Prompts
Below are some sketchbook prompts to help you begin working in your sketchbook. Do all of them or one of them, up to you. These are just ideas...I encourage you to get a sketchbook you can take with you wherever you go, so you can capture beautiful, strange, exciting, colorful, etc. things you see/hear/experience. During the school year, you will be required to fill at least 50 sketchbook pages.
Bird Study
Figure/Movement Study
Shiny Object Study
Projects
Projects
These projects will be fully finished works of art that may or may not be used in the portfolio that you submit in the Spring to Collegeboard. You will turn in projects to me for a class grade AND you will eventually compile artworks into your AP Collegeboard portfolio (which will be submitted to and graded by Collegeboard). If this doesn't make sense just ignore me, make your art, and we'll figure it out later.
These are really open project prompts. The goal is for you to take an idea and make it your own. Spend some time researching other art examples, playing around with materials, sketching, and then hone in on an idea.
COMPLETE THIS SELF-ASSESSMENT FOR EACH PROJECT & SUBMIT TO CANVAS.
Project 1: Self Portrait
Project 1: Self Portrait
This is the self-portrait project. The beauty and challenge of a piece like this is that it is limitless in the possibilities. So I am giving you very few parameters.
This piece may or may not contain your physical self. It may or may not be abstract, and it may or may not be ‘literal’.
Painting, drawing, collage, charcoal, ... you pick!!
Project 2: Celebration
Project 2: Celebration
Create a painting or drawing celebrating your favorite anything. Bring joy and love to this thing!!
Things to consider in your final composition:
Color: What is your color scheme/palette? How do the colors work together to create cohesion and harmony? Describe what would happen if the colors were different and give an example.
Composition: Describe your composition to someone who can’t see your work. Start with the focal point and how the viewer knows it’s the focal point and then move all around the piece in visual order. It helps to ask another first!
Principles used: Which three principles of design are most prevalent in this work and how does the viewer know this?
Sketches: How are your sketches the same and or different from the planning period to the finished piece?
Project 3: Blue Period
Project 3: Blue Period
Create a painting from your ‘blue period’ (or any color for that matter). Think Picasso! Make sure it’s your work and not a copy of his.
YouTube: What is Picasso's 'blue period?
Pablo Picasso's "Blue Period": pablopicasso.org
Consider…
How does color determine mood/content and how do color schemes play a role in composition?
What specifically does your color palette evoke? Explain how the colors dictate composition and meaning in your piece.
Which composition did you choose and how does color line up with it? (Example: I used a triangle composition with contrasting and complementary colors at each angle which makes the piece …).
Project 4: Large Scale Piece
Project 4: Large Scale Piece
You're creating a big piece!!
This piece may be of any media, concept, and composition.
Dimensions: 18” by 24”
Guidelines:
Evidence of Planning (sketches, notes, etc.) in sketchbook. Upload sketchbook photos with the final project.
Size: 18 x 24
Physical painting or drawing (not digital), materials of your choosing
As always, complete the self-assessment/reflection sheet when you finish!
Project 5: Exaggerated Point of View
Project 5: Exaggerated Point of View
Do anything you want (any medium and any size), but make sure it's a fully developed work (with evidence of planning) & that you use an exaggerated view point...you should play with perspective.
Mural (optional)
Mural (optional)
Let’s say you get hired to paint something in Corvallis. Big! Where is it? How big?
What are you going to paint?
Create a 'mural' for the city of Corvallis. Not really... but, create a final tiny version of your painting, where it would go, and why you think this location works best for your specific painting.
In real life, you would need to also develop a business plan with a cost analysis and such to make sure you get paid!! But for now...just plan out the mural part.
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