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.
What is the Central idea of your Concentration?________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Concentration II
What is the Central idea of your Concentration?________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Concentration III
What is the Central idea of your Concentration?________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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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