Grade 11/12 Advanced / AP Art September 20-24

Students will prepare surfaces for their final series of four drawings inspired by the car engine. They will draw on the altered papers with a variety of mark making materials,

Every Monday a homework assignment is due. See the Home Work Assignment sheet below.
Students should bring their sketch book to every class.

AP Studio Art
Home Work
First Quarter

Production: Students are to complete 5 projects from the list of possible tasks. These tasks may be completed in any medium, on a recommended size of 11x14. Work should be no smaller than 9x12 and no larger than 18x24. These tasks scan be completed in a sketchbook. Your artwork should emphasize mark-making, line quality, direct observation and composition.

• Create a still-life containing at least 3 cleaning items (broom, vacuum, mop, etc) leaning against stool or chair – colored pencils, choose 1 color scheme in which to finish the artwork (warm, cool, secondary, etc).
• Create a self-portrait study, where you hold a flashlight under your chin to create shapes of strong lights and darks – Charcoal.
• Create a portrait, self-portrait, landscape, or still life in the style of
  another artist--for example, Monet/Impressionism, Matisse/Fauvism, Picasso/Cubism, Warhol/Pop, Dali/Surrealism, Van Gogh/Post
  Impressionism, etc. You may need to do a little research to fully understand their stylistic tendencies.
• Create a pencil drawing of a still-life arrangement that consists of
  reflective objects and/or transparent objects- think about what is behind the transparent objects or what is being reflected.
• Create a drawing of an unusual interior -- for instance, looking inside a closet, cabinet, refrigerator, inside your car.
• Create a Still-life Self-portrait by drawing your most valued treasures arranged in an interesting composition.
• Create a portrait, self-portrait, still life, or landscape using a complementary, analogous, or split-complementary color scheme (you may use black and white as well).
• Create a drawing of your hands arranged in a variety of poses. You must carefully plan your composition in order for the separate units to work together visually.
• Create a drawing of a futuristic cityscape – Tegucigalpa in the year 2050 (keep in mind the rules of one, two, and three-point perspective).
• Create a drawing of the monsters hiding under your bed, or in your closet
  
  
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Grade 10 September 20-24

Students will explore cross contour drawing. Using permanent pen they will draw the still life composition using only horizontal lines.

Later in the week they will begin researching the role of the mask in cultures around the world. They will select a culture and develop a mask design based on that culture. They will construct the mask using a variety of materials. This lesson will go through the week of September 27.

Students are expected to bring their sketchbooks to every class.

Grade 9 September 20-25

Road Map Relief

This week students will be experiementing with abstract and non-objective compositions. We will be working with the principles of balance and movement in compositions. We will look at the work of Arp and compare and contrast the concepts of random or chance art and abstract and non- objective art.

Advanced Art / AP Art 11/12 September 6-10

Going Under Cover

This week students will bring together the skills they have developed in gestural drawing with the shape and form exercises. There goal is to animate an inanimate object. They will be preparing surfaces and working with several different kinds of media

Take a look (above) at the results of last weeks studio exercise - form and shape.

Grade 10 September 6-10

Art in the Kitchen

Grade 10 students will take on the challenge of cross contour drawing this week. They well be working from a still life of fruits and vegetables and household objects.

Take a look at some of their A-mazing work from last week.

Grade 9 September 6-10

Still Life

Take off your shoes and draw! Like Van Gogh and other master artists, students will get comfortable and use their shoes to put into practice some of what they learned last week. They will use multiple vanishing points to help them draw a still life of “shoes”.

Got any old shoes you want to get rid of? The Art Department needs your “JUNK”.

Grade 9 August 30-September 3

Perspective – The Mastery of Illusion

Students will study the perception of relational angles and proportions, light and shadow.The objective is to create a complex maze in one point perspective. We will look at the works of Renaissance artists. Students may want to look at this site for some background information - architectural-world.blogspot.com/ http://www.webexhibits.org/sciartperspective/raphaelperspective1.html

Be sure you bring a #2 pencil, ruler and eraser to class.

Last Week students studied the elements of art - shape and value. They applied their skills to a still life of pasta.