Advanced Placement Studio Art Drawing



Advanced Placement Studio Art Drawing

Summer Assignments

The purpose of these assignments is to give the AP student a preliminary experience in the rigor of the AP Studio Art Course and to give them a head start on the enormous quantity of finished works without sacrificing quality. There are twelve assignments in total, however only nine out of the twelve must be completed by the first day of school. Some assignments are marked as optional and some are required (Please pay close attention to this.) Four of those assignments should be completed by July 31st and turned into Mr. Papadonis’s art room between the hours of 8 AM and 2:30 PM Monday through Friday. If you have any questions at any time you may contact me at (Mr. Pap’s Cell# 781-264-3013). Even though many of the assignments are labeled as optional you must complete five of them by July 31st and the other four by the first day of school. I am just trying to give you some choices.

The final five works should be brought to class on the first day of school. Failure to complete these works by the set deadlines requires an automatic withdrawal from the AP Studio Course. All supplies may be purchased at Michel’s or AC Moore in Hanover.

Required Materials List

All of these supplies should cost about $75.00 (please see me if this is a financial problem) Free or reduced lunch is definite reason for supplies from NHS)

Cardboard Portfolio at least 18” X 24” in size (24” X 36” is ideal)

Tackle Box or Shoe Box for Supplies

- Artists Drawing Pencils with a range of leads (ex. 4H, 3H, 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B), 18” X 24” white drawing paper, and art gum eraser.

Charcoal Paper or Pastel Paper approximately 18”X24” but no larger than that size, charcoal, blending stump

Water Color Set (purchase water color tubes)

At least four sheets of Watercolor Paper at least 18” X 24” (the amount depends on how many watercolors you intend on making)

An Extra Fine Sharpie Marker (Permanent Marker)

At least three different size watercolor bushes (round heads soft bristles) You may use an old dish as a palette

At least three different size acrylic paint brushes (stiff bristles) You may use an old dish as a palette

3 canvas boards around 18” X 24” in size.

Acrylic Paint Set The basic colors of the rainbow (ROY G BV) also recommend some sort of cranberry red

Optional Materials List

Craypas, Pastels, Colored Pencils in sets of at least 24 or more colors

-All works must have a thumbnail sketch completed before the final piece that should be attached to the back of the finished work.

-Ask yourself the following questions before you consider each of these works as finished

1. Where is the center of interest?

2. Is there sufficient movement and direction to lead you to the center interest?

3. Is the composition filled in the background or is the background an after thought?

4. Does the work have an obvious meaning, mood or emotion? (Think about color schemes or in the case of single color consider the value range.)

5. Where is the light source? Where is the light coming from? (There may be a few exceptions to this rule)

Assignments to be completed by July 31

1. Pencil Drawing of White Objects (Required)

Materials- Artists Drawing Pencils with a range of leads (ex. 4H, 3H, 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B), 18” X 24” white drawing paper, and art gum eraser.

Take at least five white objects that somehow connect or relate to each other and draw them with these aforementioned art pencils on a 18” X 24” piece of white drawing paper.

Tips-

-Do not blend any of your drawing and use crosshatching techniques to do your rendering (keep your pencils sharp as it makes a difference in the quality of your drawing)

-Make sure your drawing covers the full range of values on the scale from pitch black to white (make a value scale of 7 values and scan it over your piece)

2. Facial Expression in a Self Portrait (Required)

Materials- Charcoal Paper or Pastel Paper approximately 18”X24” but no larger than that size, charcoal, blending stump

Sit in front of a mirror and make a self-portrait making a distinctive facial expression using charcoal. At least three of the four sides of your head should be cropped (go off the page).

Tips-

-Make sure your drawing covers the full range of values on the scale from pitch black to white

-Be sure to draw what you see even if it looks strange, awkward or funny.

3. Acrylic Painting Technique Exercise (Required)

**Be sure to gather most of the following tools before you do this project: Scissors, pencil, ruler, sponge, fork, butter knife or palette knife, eye dropper, water spray bottle, rubber stamps, screen or net (3 or three inches square), comb, rag, plastic spatula, paint brushes, stencil brush, sanding block, wax paper, twigs, stones, sand, masking tape, crayons, fabric scraps.

-View the enclosed DVD on Acrylic Painting Techniques and follow along making the techniques on 2 canvas boards around 18” X 24” in size.

-Take your own picture of a landscape and make a painting using the techniques that you practiced in the video with any 16 of the techniques from the DVD (one technique per cell). Make your picture into a grid. The painting should be done on the 18” X24” canvas as grid representing 16 of the techniques of the DVD.

4. Landscape in Weather (Rain, fog, wind) (Optional)

Make a painting in with watercolor or acrylics that shows rain or fog or wind (inclement weather) You may need to work from a photograph for this project, but the optimal situation is to work from life or a combination of both. If you use a photograph it must be your own and not a published photo.

Tips

-The focus of this project is on painting techniques so you may want to practice them before you make the final work (If you are not familiar with them then you may want to try this website for a visual demonstration watercolor.tutorials.htm

-Try to use a color scheme when making this painting (ex. Complementary, Split Complementary Triadic, Warm Color Dominance or Cool Color Dominance, Analogous)

-Work on watercolor paper for watercolors or Canvas for Acrylics

-Remember the basic rules of depth and a landscape painting

-1. Foreground- more texture, detail and contrast

-2. Middle ground- less texture, detail and contrast than in the foreground

-3. Background- a reemergence of some detail, contrast, and texture but not as much as the foreground

-4. A noticeable and exaggerated change in value from dark to light or light to dark moving from foreground to background

The following four projects involve your making works of interesting interior spaces with the color medium of your choice (acrylics, colored pencils, watercolor, pastel, craypas) including the human figure. (Use you or a family member for subject matter) You should work from life and photographs for resource material

The only thing that is changing is your light source. All or most lights should be out in the room with the exception of your light source. (Use a different medium for each work)

Works may be any size but no larger than 18” X 24”

4. Window Light (Optional)

5. Lamp Light or Candle Light (be sure that you have directional light with one main light source) (Optional)

6. Even lighting in the room (All lights on) (Optional)

Tips-

-Be sure that you can see noticeable effects of the designated light source

-Look at the whole background in your composition and be sure that it is active and moving

-Think about the techniques that you need to accomplish a painting with depth and light (research or google the techniques and practice them if you are not familiar with them)

The following Assignments are the beginnings of your “Concentration”

7. Answer the questions on the accompanying questionnaire and write out a brief statement about your concentration. Think Sheet 2 (Required)

Ex. “I was drawn to people in groups,” or “ I wanted to portray stages of my childhood up until my recent youth.”

Tips-

-Be sure to pick something that really matters to you and something you feel close to or knowledgeable about as it will make a tremendous difference in your final works

How would one of the artists from the following art eras or trends do it? (Your choice of media ex. Watercolor, acrylic, oil, charcoal, pastel, etc.)

8. Renaissance, Romanticism, NeoClassicism, Hudson River School (Optional)

9. Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Expressionism (Optional)

10. Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, Cubism (Optional)

Tips-

-Go onto for information and sample master works

-Write down 10 things that you have noticed about the selected master’s work based on research and things that you have observed

11. Using a combination of mixed Extra Fine Tip Sharpie Markers and Watercolors make a series of 7 panels on a single piece of 18” X 24” watercolor paper make a narrative of one of your everyday rituals. (Optional)

12. Make a preliminary pencil drawing for a linoleum block print using the subject matter of your choice 6” X9” paper.

Tips-

-Be sure to make drawing that is a line/shape pattern

-Pay attention to the ¾’s rule or owned white space

-Use only black and white in the drawing (no grey)

-Pay attention to the use of texture and pattern

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