Venice High School Visual Arts Department

Suggested Summer Assignments 2016-2017

 

Advanced Placement 2D Studio Art & Drawing

Mrs. Bruder-Werner

Summer assignments help alleviate the pressure during the school year of producing the many quality pieces needed for a successful portfolio. There are 3 assignment categories: Sketchbook Assignments (20), Life Drawings (2), and Projects (2). Completing more of these pieces than required will only put you that much further ahead when school starts.

Helpful hints:

• 1.Draw directly from life instead of using reference photos, whenever possible. If you must use a photo, take your own or use a photo from the public domain. Attach the photo to the back of the work.

• 2.Use quality materials for your art. Good materials make it easier to create good work. Use at least 80 lb white drawing paper and stretched canvases for painting.

• 3.Use standard sizes. Stay within the 18” x 24” size, so that these pieces could be used for the quality section of your portfolio.

• 4.Use a plan for  your artwork. Make several thumbnails, jot down notes, glue in reference images, and do color studies when needed. The best sketchbook is the black hardbound 8.5” x 11”Basic Canson book with acid free paper, which can be purchased from Barnes and Nobles, Art & Frame,  Jerrys Art-a-Rama, Michaels or online at Dick Blick or other art sites.

• Use a variety of media, even combining them for mixed media.

• 5.DO NOT SIGN YOUR NAME TO THE FRONT OF YOUR WORK or place any identifying marks on the front as per AP Guidelines. Be sure to write your name on the back.

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  Visit the AP Central website for the portfolio you are submitting often to see sample portfolios and to become familiar with requirement

  http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/studiodrawing

• http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/studio2d

   

  Look at good art! Visit the local art centers, galleries, John Ringling museum, and art festivals. Take your sketch book with you, and render the work as well as your response to it. It is a good thing to jot down your thinking process in your sketch book as well as draw in it.

  Read about art! Read art magazines, such as The Artist’s Magazine and International Artist. You will find these in local libraries, Barnes & Noble. Check out books about famous artists in the library while you are there. Study the images in them.

  Search the Internet for artists dealing with the same subject as you. Study their work, life history, and influences. Some good sites: artsy.net, MOMA, Metropolitan Art Museum, Lourve in Paris, National Gallery of Art etc.

   

  Part One: Life Drawings

  Complete at least TWO of the following observational drawings. The AP Readers (Judges), as well as art schools love to see a drawing made from life. Use charcoal or pencil (2hb and 4b). Spend the time needed to complete the work. Don’t just draw a contour. Use a full range of values, with deep shadows and bright highlights to create form and depth. Use the entire page, placing your focal points in the sweet spots, and running of the edges with your composition. Fill the paper up, using more positive that empty space.

• 1.A self-portrait that expresses a specific mood . Think about the effects of color and how it conveys the individual mood. You may use any style (realism, cubism, expressionism, etc.). Research online to study various artists’ self-portraits and their styles and techniques. Check out Van Gogh, Frieda Kahlo, and Rembrandt.

• 2.A Still-life that consists of 3 or more reflective objects. Set up the objects on a table, cover it with cloth, and place a lamp near it to create dramatic lighting. Your goal is to convey a convincing representation. Render as accurately as you can.

• 3.A drawing of an unusual interior– for example, looking inside of a closet, cabinet, refrigerator, inside your car, under the car’s hood etc. Include as many details as your can.

• 4.A still-life of your family members’ shoes . You should include at least three shoes - go for interesting shapes, design, texture, color. Place them in different positions,

• 5.A close-up drawing of a bicycle/tricycle from an unusual angle. Don’t just draw the bicycle from the side!

• 6.Buildings in a landscape: Do a drawing on location. Look for a building or spot in your neighborhood that is part of your neighborhood’s identity. It could be a fire house, restaurant park, church or any other building or place that you would miss seeing if it were torn down. Consider going to downtown Venice and draw a group of buildings.

• 7.Expressive landscape: locate a landscape near your home or use a photograph that you have taken of a landscape. Or, you can also use multiple sketches or photos of different landscapes to create a unique one. It is best to work from an actual subject, so draw outdoors while looking at the actual landscape. Use expressive color to draw. Check out the Fauvists or the Der Blaue Reiter to see expressive use of color at work.

• 8.Create a self-portrait , using your reflection in an unusual surface, something other than a normal mirror. This could be a metal appliance (toaster, blender), a computer monitor, a broken or warped mirror, a car’s rear view mirror, or tinted windows.

• 9.Public sculpture: design plans for a public artwork. Go to the National Mall in DC (most museums are free) to see the Sculpture Gardens at National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn. Look at the work of Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Louis Bourgeois, Barry Flangan, Auguste Rodin, David Smith and more, for ideas of sculpture and installation art in the environment. Look around Venice to locate and record large scale public art. Make your project sketches similar to those that Christo prepares for his large-scale environmental installations. Take a look at the incredible projects by Christo: “The Gates” in Central Park, NYC. http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.shtml

• 10.Café drawing (or any other local hangout): go to a place where you can sit and sketch for a long period of time. Capture the essence of this place (local eatery/café, bookstore, mall, etc.) by drawing the people and places you see.

• 11.Action portrait: have a friend or family member pose for you doing some sort of movement (jump roping, walking, riding a bike, walking down stairs, etc.). Capture the entire sequence of their action in one piece of artwork. How will you portray movement in your work? Look at “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Dada artists Marcel Duchamp, as well as the work of Futurist artists Giacomo Balla or F.T. Marinetti. Check out the photographic motion studies by Muybridge.

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• Part Two: Projects

  Choose at least TWO from the list. You may choose any media or combination of media, including traditional painting and drawing media, collage, photography, or digital art. Photographs and digital art must be printed out. Start your project by developing each idea in your sketchbook. Plan your composition with big shapes, value/color contrasts, scale relationships, point of view, and lighting. Make use of the elements of art and principles of design with intentions. Plan it out! Solutions need to be fresh and unique instead of obvious, predictable, and trite.

• 1.Create a series of 3 new artworks around a theme of your choosing. Consider this a . Look at artists who worked in series, such as James Ensor, Andy Warhol, Stella, Mondrian, Matisse, and Picasso.

• 2.Create a comic strip about a social issue. All characters must be original. Include text and color.

• 3.Create a photomontage, using Photoshop if necessary. Research Barbara Kruger.

• 4.Using media of your choice, design a CD cover for an imaginary musician or group, or for any local band that you personally know. It must be totally original and be packaged in a plastic CD case.

• 5.Research and create a Pop-inspired work incorporating personal symbols or words. Research the art of Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Ed Ruscha, as well as their photography.

• 6.Create an artwork that illustrates a story or a person from the Bible. Research contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley’s work, Rembrandt’s many biblical scenes, and James Tissot’s prophet series.

• 7.Create a colorful design for a handbag or other item of clothing. Research Tina Turk’s bags, as well as the psychedelic art movement.

• 8.Create an off-beat portrait of a family member/friend using thick bold outlines and arbitrary colors, using paint and/or oil pastels. If you use a photo, draw on top of it with oil pastels. Research Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Georges Rouault.

• 9.Create a new, artsy label for a real can of food. Use a as a theme. Visit the website http://artandsocialissues.cmaohio.org/ to see how other artists dealt with social issues.

• 10.Photograph details: close-ups of faces, architectural details, textural surfaces, interesting lighting and compositions. Check out the photographer Simon Lewis, Diane Arbus, and Annie Leibovitz.

   

• Part Three: Sketchbook Assignments

  In addition to using your sketch to plan your projects, you must complete 20 sketches and spend approximately 30 minutes per idea. Sketchbooks should display forethought, good composition, exceptional craftsmanship, have mature subject matter (avoid trite, overused symbols). These sketchbook assignments should be finished drawings. Sometimes breadth pieces come from sketchbooks. Choose from this list or create your own ideas for your 20 sketches (you can do more!)

1. Pile of pillows

2. Fabric with pattern

3. Look up words you do not know and illustrate them

4. Insects

5. Draw on top of an old drawing

6. Man vs. Nature

7. Close up of an object making it abstract

8. 5 drawings on top of each other

9. Transformation

10. Jim Dine: tools

11. Negative space only

12. Only objects I found at this location_________

13. Non objective

14. Oops, wrong color

15. Contradiction

16. Outside vs. inside

17. Plugged in

18. Extreme light source

19. Refuge

20. Extreme perspective

21. Chinese proverb

22. Social statement

23. A tiny image repeated several times

24. Café

25. Park

26. View from a car mirror

27. What was for dinner

28. Laundry day

29. Glass bottles

30. Shoes

31. Create a texture surface and draw on it

32. Sink with dishes in it and soapy water

33. Yourself in 15 years

34. Abstract drawing of a building

35. Opposites

36. Conflict of interest

37. Layer it on

38. Anatomy

39. Morphs

40. The senses

41. Fill a plastic bag with objects and draw

42. Metallic objects

43. Autumn forest floor

44. Threads

 

 

Be creative and have fun this summer. Look forward to seeing you in AP Art in the fall!

Mrs. B-W

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  Visit the AP Central website for the portfolio you are submitting often to see sample portfolios and to become familiar with requirements.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/studiodrawing

  http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/studio2d

  http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/studio3d

  Look at good art! Visit the local art centers, galleries, John Ringling museum, and art festivals. Take your sketch book with you, and render the work as well as your response to it. It is a good thing to jot down your thinking process in your sketch book as well as draw in it.

  Read about art! Read art magazines, such as The Artist’s Magazine and International Artist. You will find these in local libraries, Barnes & Noble. Check out books about famous artists in the library while you are there. Study the images in them.

  Search the Internet for artists dealing with the same subject as you. Study their work, life history, and influences. Some good sites: artsy.net, MOMA, Metropolitan Art Museum, Lourve in Paris, National Gallery of Art etc.

   

  Part One: Life Drawings

  Complete at least TWO of the following observational drawings. The AP Readers (Judges), as well as art schools love to see a drawing made from life. Use charcoal or pencil (2hb and 4b). Spend the time needed to complete the work. Don’t just draw a contour. Use a full range of values, with deep shadows and bright highlights to create form and depth. Use the entire page, placing your focal points in the sweet spots, and running of the edges with your composition. Fill the paper up, using more positive that empty space.

• A that expresses a specific . Think about the effects of color and how it conveys the individual mood. You may use any style (realism, cubism, expressionism, etc.). Research online to study various artists’ self-portraits and their styles and techniques. Check out Van Gogh, Frieda Kahlo, and Rembrandt.

• Still life that consists of 3 or more objects. Set up the objects on a table, cover it with cloth, and place a lamp near it to create dramatic lighting. Your goal is to convey a convincing representation. Render as accurately as you can.

• A drawing of an – for example, looking inside of a closet, cabinet, refrigerator, inside your car, under the car’s hood etc. Include as many details as your can.

• A still-life of your family members’ . You should include at least three shoes - go for interesting shapes, design, texture, color. Place them in different positions,

• A close-up drawing of a from an unusual angle. Don’t just draw the bicycle from the side!

• Buildings in a landscape: Do a drawing on location. Look for a building or spot in your neighborhood that is part of your neighborhood’s identity. It could be a fire house, restaurant park, church or any other building or place that you would miss seeing if it were torn down. Consider going to downtown Venice and draw a group of buildings.

• Expressive landscape: locate a landscape near your home or use a photograph that you have taken of a landscape. Or, you can also use multiple sketches or photos of different landscapes to create a unique one. It is best to work from an actual subject, so draw outdoors while looking at the actual landscape. Use expressive color to draw. Check out the Fauvists or the Der Blaue Reiter to see expressive use of color at work.

• Create a , using your in an unusual surface, something other than a normal mirror. This could be a metal appliance (toaster, blender), a computer monitor, a broken or warped mirror, a car’s rear view mirror, or tinted windows.

• Public sculpture: design plans for a public artwork. Go to the National Mall in DC (most museums are free) to see the Sculpture Gardens at National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn. Look at the work of Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Louis Bourgeois, Barry Flangan, Auguste Rodin, David Smith and more, for ideas of sculpture and installation art in the environment. Look around Venice to locate and record large scale public art. Make your project sketches similar to those that Christo prepares for his large-scale environmental installations. Take a look at the incredible projects by Christo: “The Gates” in Central Park, NYC. http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.shtml

• Café drawing (or any other local hangout): go to a place where you can sit and sketch for a long period of time. Capture the essence of this place (local eatery/café, bookstore, mall, etc.) by drawing the people and places you see.

• Action portrait: have a friend or family member pose for you doing some sort of movement (jump roping, walking, riding a bike, walking down stairs, etc.). Capture the entire sequence of their action in one piece of artwork. How will you portray movement in your work? Look at “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Dada artists Marcel Duchamp, as well as the work of Futurist artists Giacomo Balla or F.T. Marinetti. Check out the photographic motion studies by Muybridge.

   

  Part Two: Projects

  Choose at least TWO from the list. You may choose any media or combination of media, including traditional painting and drawing media, collage, photography, or digital art. Photographs and digital art must be printed out. Start your project by developing each idea in your sketchbook. Plan your composition with big shapes, value/color contrasts, scale relationships, point of view, and lighting. Make use of the elements of art and principles of design with intentions. Plan it out! Solutions need to be fresh and unique instead of obvious, predictable, and trite.

• Create a series of 3 new artworks around a theme of your choosing. Consider this a . Look at artists who worked in series, such as James Ensor, Andy Warhol, Stella, Mondrian, Matisse, and Picasso.

• Create a about a social issue. All characters must be original. Include text and color.

• Create a , using Photoshop if necessary. Research Barbara Kruger.

• Using media of your choice, design a for an imaginary musician or group, or for any local band that you personally know. It must be totally original and be packaged in a plastic CD case.

• Research and create a incorporating personal symbols or words. Research the art of Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Ed Ruscha, as well as their photography.

• Create an artwork that illustrates a story or a person from the Bible. Research contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley’s work, Rembrandt’s many biblical scenes, and James Tissot’s prophet series.

• Create a for a handbag or other item of clothing. Research Tina Turk’s bags, as well as the psychedelic art movement.

• Create an of a family member/friend using thick bold outlines and arbitrary colors, using paint and/or oil pastels. If you use a photo, draw on top of it with oil pastels. Research Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Georges Rouault.

• Create a new, artsy label for a real can of food. Use a as a theme. Visit the website http://artandsocialissues.cmaohio.org/ to see how other artists dealt with social issues.

• Photograph details: close-ups of faces, architectural details, textural surfaces, interesting lighting and compositions. Check out the photographer Simon Lewis, Diane Arbus, and Annie Leibovitz.

   

  Part Three: Sketchbook Assignments

  In addition to using your sketch to plan your projects, you must complete 20 sketches and spend approximately 30 minutes per idea. Sketchbooks should display forethought, good composition, exceptional craftsmanship, have mature subject matter (avoid trite, overused symbols). These sketchbook assignments should be finished drawings. Sometimes breadth pieces come from sketchbooks. Choose from this list or create your own ideas for your 20 sketches (you can do more!)

• Pile of pillows

• Fabric with pattern

• Look up words you do not know and illustrate them

• Insects

• Draw on top of an old drawing

• Man vs. Nature

• Close up of an object making it abstract

• 5 drawings on top of each other

• Transformation

• Jim Dine: tools

• Negative space only

• Only objects I found at this location_________

• Non objective

• Oops, wrong color

• Contradiction

• Outside vs. inside

• Plugged in

• Extreme light source

• Refuge

• Extreme perspective

• Chinese proverb

• Social statement

• A tiny image repeated several times

• Café

• Park

• View from a car mirror

• What was for dinner

• Laundry day

• Glass bottles

• Shoes

• Create a texture surface and draw on it

• Sink with dishes in it and soapy water

• Yourself in 15 years

• Abstract drawing of a building

• Opposites

• Conflict of interest

• Layer it on

• Anatomy

• Morphs

• The senses

• Fill a plastic bag with objects and draw

• Metallic objects

• Autumn forest floor

• Threads

   

   

  Be creative and have fun this summer. Look forward to seeing you in AP Art in the fall!

  Mrs. B-W

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