SUMMER REQUIREMENTS FOR AP STUDIO ART 2008-2009

 

It will be important to “create” over the summer as an indication of your interest, willingness, and ability to work independently.  Assignments will be due by the third week of school and will constitute part of your first trimester grade.  It is your choice as to which assignments you do.  With the exception of sketchbook work, all pieces should be no smaller than 12” x 16.”  You are not bound to these assignments; you may use them as a “springboard” for your own ideas.  Media may be drawing, painting, or mixed.

 

Over the summer, you should be thinking about a theme/subject/studio investigation that you want to pursue in depth next year for the concentration component of the AP portfolio.

 

Requirements:  

 

1. Students taking Photography Only:

·        At least 5 rolls of film covering 5 different themes

Or

·        At least 5 digital sessions covering 5 different themes

Or

·        a combination of the above

 

2. Students who plan to do the Drawing portfolio:

(includes drawing, painting, and printmaking, but no photography)

 

These students must choose from the list below:

 

Over the summer, you are to complete at least five of the assignments listed below as a prerequisite for AP Studio Art. 

 

  • Do a portrait, self-portrait, landscape, or still life in the style of another artist—for example, Monet/Impressionism, Matisse/Fauvism, Picasso/Cubism, Warhol/Pop Art, Dali/Surrealism, Van Gogh/Post Impressionism, etc.  You may need to do a little research in order to fully understand their stylistic tendencies.
  • Do a self-portrait that expresses a specific mood.  Think about the effects of color and how its use can help convey the individual mood. You might want to do several studies, reflecting different moods.
  • Do a graphite drawing of a still-life arrangement that consists of reflective objects—your goal is to convey a convincing representation with a full range of values.  To add interest to the composition, you might want to draw yourself being reflected in the objects.
  • Do a drawing of an unusual interior—for interest, looking inside a closet, cabinet, refrigerator, inside your car . . . use your imagination!
  • Do a drawing of your worldly treasures arranged in an interesting still-life composition.
  • Do a portrait, self-portrait, landscape, or still life in which you use three different media—for example, a wet medium, a dry medium, collage elements, actual objects.
  • Do a portrait, self-portrait, still life, or landscape using complementary, analogous, or split-complementary color scheme (you may use black & white as well).
  • Do 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.
  • Do a color rendering of a still-life arrangement consisting of your family members’ shoes.  Try to convey some sense of each of your individual family member’s distinct personalities in your piece.
  • Do a drawing of a futuristic cityscape—i.e., Dallas in the year 2050 (Keep in mind the rules of one, two, and three-point perspective).
  • Do a drawing of the demons hiding under your bed, or in your closet.
  • Magnify a metallic object:  Zero in on a section of metallic objects, such as a close-up of part of a bike or motorcycle, or spoons or an eggbeater.  Make use of hard-edge metal reflections and cast shadows.
  • Landscape:  Do a drawing on location—the beach, the park, looking down your street, your backyard, or a study of part of a tree form.
  • Still life:  Set up a still life with a strong light source, near a window or with a flashlight.  Try eggs on torn or crumpled paper, tin cans or glass jars, fruit on drapery, or raid the vegetable bin of the refrigerator.  Be sure to compose the entire page.

 

If you have the opportunity to attend a summer program at another institution, private lessons, or pre-college classes, we will consider any work you did there instead of all or part of the assignments listed above.  Depending on the quality of the work, two or three sketchbook drawings/visual journal pages may also be considered in lieu of one of the pieces above.