AP Studio Art Syllabus



AP Studio Summer Assignment

Mr. Uttendorfer

Email Shawnutt@

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Student must complete part I and part II by September 12 Each part will be graded as a full project grade.

Part I: Students will need to create four complete pieces no larger than 16”x20” in any media they want on any type of surface. (please see instructors for supplies ). Project description is as follows:

1. Draw a person’s head and face using exaggeration to communicate emotion. Work from a live model. First use a pencil to make a general drawing. Note the shapes and planes of the face and how they fit together. Then continue over the drawing with a darker media (charcoal, pastel, paint, pen ). Utilize strong contrast to greatly exaggerate the areas you want to emphasize. Work from a live model and do not use a front or side view.

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2. Create a drawing or painting of a small group of people. Utilize your skills in design to emphasize the negative space between them. The people should overlap and be either behind or in front of one another. Be creative when dealing with line and shape. Draw from life.

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3. Create a drawing showing foreshortened and dynamic point of view.

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4. Create a piece based on the images found at

Part II: Students need to come up with 3 possible Concentration ideas. (Refer to list attached ) Student will need to create 12 thumbnails for each possible Concentration.

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Concentration II

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Concentration III

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AP CONCENTRATION IDEAS

What is a ‘concentration’?

A ‘concentration’ for AP Studio Art is a group of twelve (12) works that carries out a theme or idea which is clear to the viewer. It must show growth over time and often is tied in to one or more of the elements and principles of art and design.

What do you mean by ‘theme’?

A ‘theme’ is a subject or topic or idea that is evident throughout the twelve pieces. It ties the work together so that the viewer can look at it and see what the artist is thinking about or saying through the work.

Things to keep in mind:

• Choose something you are passionate about (12 pieces of work will get very old if you don’t feel strongly about the subject matter!)

• COMPOSITION is important, no matter what you choose (see the ‘Rules for AP Art’ by Nicole Briscoe)

• CHALLENGE yourself to do something above and beyond what you might have done before!

• Personalize your concentration, make it yours

• This takes TIME, so choose EARLY to be sure that your quality will be up to par!

• Stick with it! If you’ve chosen thoughtfully, you should be able to sustain the idea through 12 pieces

• Don’t worry that the idea ‘morphs’ a bit….it is SUPPOSED to show growth

• DO worry if the pieces no longer look like they belong together! (Then get help from me and your colleagues in AP!)

• Choose proportions for the finished pieces keeping in mind that they fill the frame when we photograph them (i.e. no long and skinny pieces which will leave a lot of negative space)

• Make the pieces large enough and complex enough to show that you put in a great deal of effort (nothing smaller than 11”X14”)

• Stay in contact with me and with your peers in AP to frequently check in and get opinions from all of us. We should all be able to help each other in this class!

• ENJOY the fact that you get to participate in this challenging but very rewarding part of the AP portfolio! I promise you that if you put in your best effort, you will be proud of what you can accomplish, and how much you will grow throughout the year!

1. Fruits – from their growth on trees through picking, processing, selling and consumption by people

2. Self Portraiture in action (at play) from early childhood to later childhood with a focus on color and texture

3. Kitchen objects set up to represent cellular structures (in biology) with dramatic lighting and usage of color

4. Focus on Vermeer, setting up friends and relatives in the positions of famous paintings and drawings by the artist and then emulating the set ups in the students’ own work (dramatic natural light, models involved in daily routines)

5. Fauvist style landscapes of places that have meaning for you

6. Favorite book or poem illustrated in a specific style (exaggerated perspective)

7. Trip overseas for 2D design, creating posters, flyers, magazine covers to advertise the country (using photos that you have taken yourself), typeface and photoshop

8. Human influences on the environment, using photos the student took of aesthetically UNpleasing human made structures (oil rigs, factories, etc.) Student then developed the photos and used them to do hand coloring, collage and experimental mixed media techniques, finding the beauty within the ugliness

9. Close Ups of machines – engine parts, factory machines, etc. combined with exaggerated 3D effects and specific usage of color (i.e. warm/cool, analogous, etc.

10. Choose a particular artist/or style and emulate it, setting up your own people/objects/landscapes or abstractions

11. Snakeskin as pattern on ceramic pottery (Wheel thrown)

12. Cultural costumes made completely with balloons.  (ie: Indian, American prom dress, trojan warrior...)  

13. -rings emphasizing positive and negative space.

14. -Speculums and formed metal based on techniques of Finnish metalsmith, Heikki Seppa's book,  Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths.

15. -altered books based on love gone sour...(the image of an actual human heart was in each piece)

16. Birds in flight constructed from found objects, exaggerating scale

17. Drawing Ideas

18. Fences-What they divide

Retelling old stories-Repurposing old books

19. Winged Creatures- drawn in high detail-moths , bats, bees

20. Longboards -seen from 1 pt, 2pt 3 pt and 5 pt perspective

21. Color and Form in manmade play structures ( digital photography)

22. Landscapes from my route home from school.

23. Bottles

24. Groups of Friends

25. Telephone Poles

26. cultures - began with ethnic cultures expanded to includes tourists, homeless, etc.

27. feathers

28. loneliness/estrangement

29. Little Red Riding Hood illustrations

30. interpretations of famous Fairy Tales

31. micro views - which become abstractions

32. body language

33. a white Tshirt and a cap

34. loss of father - the missing person at seminal events

35. environmental consciousness

36. capturing the mood of music

37. capturing the rhythm of music

38. fabric textures

39. portraits of emotions

40. people who shape me

41. nature

42. memories

43. shocking viewers with bizarre surrealism

44. faces

45. flowers

46. family and friends

47. reflective gears

48. illustration of inner thoughts

49. moments I was happy

50. self portraits

51. music

52. everyday life objects

53. goddess/myth different cultures"

54. guitars

55. reflections

56. "ideas of beauty"

57. dance

58. a cross country meet

59. construction

60. road trip across the United States

61. rear view mirrors

62. glamorized 1940s jewelry

63. barriers

64. bras

65. members of my family through portraits of their feet

66. old fashioned circus

67. porches in my neighborhood

68. fashion and heavy machinery in rural Vermont

69. smaller than normal size

70. an examination of what is real or mirage using faces and masks

71. illustration of a story about a girl building a sailboat, losing it, and buying it back

72. freedom of expression: what it looks like

73. portraits of the everyday moods of my dog

74. overcoming depression

75. athletic trophy as empty compared to the fulfillment of running and playing soccer

76. resistance

77. Stillness (from a kid who was adhd)

78. Motion (from a kid who well....kind of a slug)

79. Seven deadly sins with the addition of her own 5

80. Textile design

81. The human figure as shape (graphic design)

82. bareness (both literal and metaphorical)

83. vegetables

84. the dramatic figure (figures with theatrical lighting)

85. dance movements from different cultures

86. Idiosyncrasies (portraits revealing this in her friends)

87. Abandonment both places and people. 

88. Student works at a nursing home so some of the images had to do with that idea and some were of abandoned places.

89. Evolution of Illness

90. Identity:  Hiding behind masks and other roles that we play, specifically women

91. human gesture and the expression of emotion

92. Anime-style self-portrait drawings

93. Street photography emphasizing composition with geometric forms

94. Photomontage to portray events of short duration

95. Painted abstractions derived from microscopic cellular structures

96. Photos inspired by a story about the first flower blooming on the site of the Cambodian "killing fields".

97. Oil pastel drawings of plant material juxtaposed with manmade objects.

98. Abstractions derived from still lifes (lives?) of household objects.

99. Ink drawings based on photographic portraits

100. The body as landscape

101. Ugly   (wasn’t so ugly at all – lots of mixed media and inspiration from Banksy)

102. Hands and feet

103. The skeleton/bones put into before/after situations

104. Social/political issues

105. Unusual environments

106. Masks (interpreted – how do we hide?)

107. War (inspired by a Viet Nam Vet, but grew to all conflicts)

108. Large close-ups of insects that evolved into very graphic interpretations

109. Light  ---what is light?

110. Wings – how do we fly?

111. Music -- interpreted patterns and rhythms to graphic images

112. “Homeless”  an empty shell, an empty box, parts removed from a “whole”    and what do we cherish or miss about calling something “home.”

113. coffee

114. Self-portraits with grid overlays/ variations within each grid.

115. Hands in various positions and media

116. Old barns in pastel

117. Reflections on a variety of surfaces

118. Digital collages combining old letters, polaroids and “dark” images

119. Insects with a colorful and humorous viewpoint

120. Expressive landscapes painted using specific color schemes

121. Eyes, a window to your soul

122. Flowers, from realistic evolving to

123. abstract multi-media

124. places visited that her deceased father had visited

125. Water theme. Water as metaphor.

126. Documentary style photography of local veterans who fought in

Afghanistan

127. Tattoo drawings

128. Animal shelter drawings

129. Light and Shadow in Cityscapes

130. Altered Art

131. Expression and Gesture

132. Dance

133. Movement

134. Design from Nature/Nature as Design

135. Packaging designs

136. Creating Design from Man-made Objects

137. Design in Architecture to Creation of

138. Design from Architecture

139. Nature Close-ups/Abstractions from Nature

140. The Body as Shape

141. Lines/Creating Depth through Lines

142. Multiple Views/Hockney style

143. Portraits on found or altered material

144. Shoes a study of light

145. A bike in places that you do not normally see the bike

146. Comforts of home

147. Portraits that illustrate the stress of high school

148. Industrial object drawings in hyper-color

149. Emotional portraits

150. Fears

151. Ant’s point of view of my day

152. Sacred Spaces

153. Essence of Youth

154. Reflection

155. Transformation

156. Shoot From the Hip

157. Melancholy

158. Birds Eye View

159. Music

160. Poetry

161. Old and New

162. Historical Artifact

163. Color Dominance

164. Changing Seasons

165. Change

166. Circles

167. Blue

168. Attitude

169. Courage

170. Nature

171. Rain

172. Extreme Close-Up

173. Angular

174. Texture

175. Fruits and Vegetables

176. Flower (in a whole new light)

177. Pattern/Repetition

178. Shadow

179. Architectural Design

180. Near and Far

181. Under the Stairwell

182. Morning Rituals

183. Expressive Portraits

184. It’s all in the “eyes”

185. Hands of a Working Person

186. Hindsight is 20/20

187. Adolescence

188. War

189. Democracy

190. Weakness

191. Mothers and Fathers

192. Brothers and Sisters

193. What Patriotism means to me

194. My safe space

195. Fear

196. Jealousy

197. Compassion

198. Good/Evil

199. Childhood Memory

200. My biggest life lesson

201. Roadside Attraction

202. Stress

203. Worship

204. Self Portrait

205. Purity

206. Barren

207. Unfinished

208. Addiction

209. Order

210. Chaos

211. Tranquility

212. Desire

213. Glamour

214. Discovery

215. Translucent

216. Time

217. Identity

218. Candy

219. Urban vs. Suburban

220. Journey

221. Tacky

222. Warmth

223. The Beach

224. The Salt of the Earth

225. The Future

226. The Apocalypse

227. Peace

228. Car Parts

229. Nobility

230. Crowds

231. The journey of my cat around town

232. Cheerleading

233. My hobbies

234. Fashion in environment that relate to designs

235. Junk

236. Travel

237. Cliques and Social Groups

238. Accidents or Chance Encounters

239. People’s Interaction with Music

240. A Family Through Any Number of Years

241. Encountering a New Person, Place, or Experience

242. The Clash of Two Enemies

243. How We Avoid Encounters We Do Not Want

244. How People Meet, Talk, and Act Online

245. A Party (Kid’s Birthday, Retirement, Weekend House Party, etc.)

246. When Disparate Cultures Come Into Contact

247. Between Human and Animal

248. Technical Concerns

249. Light and Shadow

250. Reflections on a Variety of Surfaces

251. Folds and Fabrics with Pattern

252. Creating Depth through Use of Line

253. Illustrating a Single Story Using a Specific Artistic Style

254. Hands in Various Poses, Done with Various Media

255. Landscapes (or other subjects) Painted in Varying Color Schemes

256. Drawing with Nontraditional Materials/Drawing on Nontraditional Surfaces

257. Positive and Negative Space

258. Closeups that Show Texture

259. Water and Refraction

260. Combinations and Juxtapositions

261. Plants and Organic Material with Buildings

262. Transportation Through Natural Areas

263. Urban v. Rural Life

264. Technology with Old/Antique/Vintage Items

265. Size Distortions that Equalize or Enhance Everyday Objects

266. Indigenous People in Modern Life

267. Uniting Against and Enemy

268. Twins and Their Lives

269. Animals and the Food They Become

270. Instruments and People Playing Them

271. Disparate Objects Placed Together in Still Lifes

272. Society and Human Interaction

273. Society’s Greatest Advances Come at What Cost?

274. Costumes and Clothing from Different Parts of the World

275. Settings and Costumes from Various Time Periods

276. Consumers and Consuming

277. Dichotomy Between Rich and Poor

278. Bad Choices Teenagers Make

279. Beauty in an Impoverished Environment

280. Lifestyles of the Homeless

281. Social Issues

282. Work Based on Crime

283. Document Your Community

284. Environment and Human Effects

285. Using Nature as a Basis for Design

286. Architecture and its Surrounding Environment

287. Landscapes Over the Course of Multiple Years

288. Fences and the Divisions they Create

289. Site Specific Artworks

290. Nature Taking Over a Decrepit City or Abandoned Buildings

291. Impermanence/Ephemerality

292. How Can a Solitary Figure Alter an Environment?

293. The Destruction of Natural Disasters

294. Flowers as a Representation of Human Emotion

295. Development Encroaching on Habitats

296. Journeys

297. The Journey of an Animal (Salmon Swimming Upstream, Birds Flying South, etc.)

298. The Slow Disintegration of an Object or Group of Objects

299. From Young to Old

300. Through the Seasons of the Year

301. The Evolution of an Illness

302. Metamorphosis

303. Working Through Fears, Pain, or Illness

304. Life Cycles

305. Time Travel

306. The Life of an Athlete, Musician on Tour, Circus Performer

307. Documentation of a Road Trip

308. Feelings or Emotions

309. Abandonment

310. Vulnerability

311. Anxiety

312. Depression

313. Phobias and Fears

314. Obsession

315. Humiliation

316. Joy

317. Repulsion

318. Courage

319. Empathy

320. People’s Unique Qualities

321. What Will People Do to Be Different?

322. What Lengths Will People Go To in Order to Be Extraordinary?

323. Idiosyncrasies of Peers as Captured in Portraits

324. Fashion Choices and Accessories

325. Tattoos

326. Portraits Focused on Hair

327. Showing the Work that Goes Into Developing Talent

328. Goals and Future Plans

329. Habits

330. Unusual Life Experiences

331. Images of Beauty Throughout the World

332. Masks

333. Shoes

334. Childhood Toys

335. Biographies Through Personal Effects

336. Quinceanera

337. Sporting Events

338. Souvenirs from a Family Vacation

339. The Best Meal You’ve Ever Eaten

340. First Paycheck

341. An Important Sporting Event

342. A Move Across the Country

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