Summer Work

Summer Supplies
Summer Supplies you will need to have:

Mixed Media Sketchbook that is spiral bound
Canvas Portfolio (not necessary)
Access to a digital camera (iPhone will work for summer work)
Access to a computer with the Internet
Library for Artist Research
Any supplies that were not given to you that you are interested in using.
- Drawing pencils/eraser/blending stick
- Oil Pastels

Chalk Pastels
Conte Crayons
Canvas Pad
Drawing Pens
Paints (remember to use quality paper or canvas)
Hot Glue Gun/Hot Glue Sticks
E6000 Glue
Any found objects/trash for assemblages or collages
Where to get art supplies:

Micheal’s Arts and Crafts store
- multiple locations ~ look for coupons and locations online
Hobby Lobby
- multiple locations ~ look for coupons and locations online
Lowe's/Any hardware stores

Summer Assignments
There are 5 assignments that you are to turn in the first day of school

Assignment #1 ~ Registration with the college board & Set up your Google Drive
Assignment #2 ~ Complete Skeleton for your Weebly website
Assignment #3~ Work in a personal sketchbook/visual journal/altered book.
Assignment #4 ~ Research artists. In order to create proposed designs for your concentration you will read about and consider 2D Visual artists whose work you identify with.
Assignment #5 ~ 2 completed pieces for critic from the list of ideas below

Assignment #1 (25 pts)
Set up your Google Drive

Create a Folder Titled with your First & Last name – Studio Art
- EXAMPLE: (Lindsey Borsvold – Studio Art)
Inside that folder you will create 5 folders titled
1. Breadth
2. Concentration
3. Quality
4. College Board Information
5. Artist Research
Share the main folder with Ms. Borsvold ( lborsvold@arborprep.com)

Assignment #1
GETTING REGISTERED AT THE COLLEGE BOARD WEBSITE: (25pts)
register at www.collegeboard.com!

Here you will find information about AP Studio Art classes, the exam, scoring rubrics used, and examples of past student work in each of the portfolio areas.

From the www.collegeboard.com homepage, click on the “For Students” tab
Under “My organizer” you can create a free user account – you can use this account to access information about any AP exams and classes
Under the “College Board Tests” section, you can click on “AP” which will take you to the AP homepage
Here is a direct link to the AP subjects homepage, where you will find links to all of the AP course descriptions:http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/subjects.html
Here is a link to the Studio Art homepage: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_studioart.html?studioart

In your college board/artist statement folder create a Document titled College Board Log-in.

On this document please put your college board log in name and password.

Assignment #2 (50 pts)

Complete Skeleton for your Weebly website
- Follow the directions in the link at the top of this page.

Assignment #3 (50 pts)
Work in a personal sketchbook.
This portion of the sketchbook will be graded on the depth and quality of thinking.
Sketchbook Requirements:

Spend time every day working in your sketchbook.
- At Least half of your sketchbook should be filled with your artist research, ideas, experimentation with materials, etc.
Put the date on each page.
Make it fun!
Design the cover and allow for any and all spontaneous art activity.
Keep it glued to your hip!
Use this book to sketch,paint, doodle,collage, collect objects and take pictures to generate visual ideas and/or write journal entries, make critical and informed decisions about your progress and jot down your reflections on the outcome.
Draw and write at least one or more entries per day.

Visual ideas are akin to written observations of events or situations in daily life that are intriguing and could be used for an area of further investigation. Make sketches of these ideas, which may be further developed into formal drawings. Write about what you like or don’t like about a drawing. Write about your hopes for artwork, why you make art and what level of an artist you’d like to become. Write about what you’d like to say in your artwork or in a larger sense. Most of all draw, draw, draw from life!

Sketchbook practice is an ongoing process that informs your decision making and helps you develop ideas for works. By the end of the summer you should have generated five possible ideas based off of your Sketchbook musings that could be the basis for your concentration portfolio.

ALSO....dedicate three pages of your sketchbook to drawing hands, your hands, in as many different positions and sizes
as you can fit on the page (25 points)

Assignment #4 (50 points each)
RESEARCH ~ Great artists, love art, they research art, and use what they learn about art/artist through their research to make their art amazing!

You will be researching 5 artists (painters, print-makers, mixed media artists, sculptors, poets, etc.) whose work really interests you; investigate their work in books, on the Internet, or in person (this may also be done through a museum/gallery/studio visit).

Use the links provided to you in the Resources page.

ALL OF YOU RESEARCH WILL BE DONE IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK

Describe the issues that they explore in their art work in your sketchbook and document them with drawings and pasted-in photographs.

What needs to be included :

What about the artist draws you to them?
- Is it subject matter?
- Medium
- Color Pallet
- Technique
At least 3 of your favorite images from each artist
- print in color
- paste NEATLY into your sketchbook
- If you don't have access to a color printer
  - Create a folder within your Summer Work folder called “Inspirational Artist”
  - Create documents for each artist and put the images here.

You may choose any artists who interest you, and a list is provided below for your convenience. Remember that this is a VERY small list of artist I really urge you to do your own research

Pablo Picasso
Roy Lichtenstein
Edward Degas
Robert Indiana
Ed Ruscha,
David Bates
Ida Applebroog
Alice Neil
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Peyton
David Park
Fairfield Porter
Barbara Krueger
Banksy
Andy Warhol,
Julian Beever
Edward Degas
Helen Frankenthaler

3D Artists
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Christian Boltanski
Martin Puryear
Charles Simonds
Julio González
Ana Mendieta
Claes Oldenburg
Marcel Duchamp
Rebecca Horn
Barbara Hepworth
Robert Arneson
Christo
Andy Goldsworthy
Jacques Lipchitz
James Turrell
Jean Arp
Isamu Noguchi
Kiki Smith
Jeff Koons
Peter Voulkos
Henry Moore
Constantin Brancusi
Eva Hesse
Fred Wilson
Maya Lin
Joseph Beuys
Meret Oppenheim
Richard Serra
Diana Al-Hadid
Sarah Sze

Assignment #5 (100 pts each)

Complete 2 Formal Drawings or 2D design compositions
Drawings from the assignments listed below.
Projects are worth 100 points each for a total of 200 points.

The list of drawing topics below is taken directly from the AP studio College Board suggestions, however, you are free to come up with your own projects as long as they have the depth of skill and content equivalent to what is proposed below.

Should be no smaller than 9 x 12” and no larger than 18 x 24” surfaces using one of the following

surfaces: paper, canvas, Bristol board, mat board, wood, etc.

These drawings will be submitted at the beginning of the school year and should reflect drawing development in composition (specifically value, space, texture and light) and concept. They are expected to be rendered beyond simple line drawings and will take time. You may submit more than two artworks.

You may choose the type of surface to work on – paper, cardboard, canvas board, plywood, illustration board, etc. Please keep in mind that though drawing does involve design, you can make the emphasis in your work design based – the formal elements and principles (elements – line, color, texture, space, value, shape and form; principles – unity, balance, contrast, repetition, variety, dominance, etc.). Concept/idea, craftsmanship, and the creation of a visually successful design will all be components of every grade. Variety in concept and approaches in the expression of your ideas, as well as in technique and process are emphasized throughout this course. When doing your drawing remember the emphasis should be on the mark making! If you are doing a drawing portfolios it is much of the same however the focus should be on the mark making!

Happy drawing!

Drawing IDEAS:

Create a portrait, self-portrait, landscape, or still-life in the style of another artist in which formal aspects of design are emphasized—i.e. Monet/Impressionism, Matisse/Fauvism, Picasso/Cubism, Warhol/Pop, Dali/Surrealism, Van Gogh/Post Impressionism, etc. You may have to do a bit of research to understand the stylistic tendencies of these artists/movements.

Create a self - portrait, or several different ones, that expresses a specific mood/emotion–e.g., anger/rage, melancholy/loneliness, happiness/joy, etc. Manipulate light and color to enhance the psychological atmosphere. Also, consider the development of the environment/setting.
Create an exploration with mixed media. Do a piece (portrait, self-portrait, landscape, or still life) in which you use at least three different media—i.e., a wet medium, a dry medium and some collage element.
Create a portrait, self-portrait, still life, or landscape using either a complementary, analogous, or split-complementary color scheme(you may use black and white as well as shades and tints of the chosen hues).
Create a drawing of a futuristic city-scape—e.g., Dallas in the year 2050 (keep in mind rules of one-,two-, and three-point perspective.
Create 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 also want to render yourself being reflected in the objects.
Create drawings of unusual interiors—for instance, looking inside a closet, cabinet, refrigerator, inside your car... use your imagination!
Create a drawing of your worldly treasures arranged in an interesting still-life composition.
Create a drawing of your worldly treasures as they come to life
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 color rendering of a still-life arrangement consisting of your family member’s shoes—try to convey some ―sense of each of your individual family member’s distinct personalities in your piece.
12. Divide a page, canvas, board—i.e. the working surface—into three equal inset spaces. Do three views of one landscape. Limit yourself to a specific color scheme
Self-portrait:Arrange interesting side lighting, and be sure to add a background or setting (no floating heads). Make use of dramatic lighting, maybe even a flashlight held from below.
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, or fruit on drapery, or raid the vegetable bin of the refrigerator. Again, be sure to compose the entire page.
Magnify a metallic object: Zero in on a section of metallic objects, such as a closeup 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.

Documentation: Use your digital camera or phone, to take images of each of your completed summer work pieces. These images should be uploaded and placed into your “Summer Work” folder.

Rubrics: You must complete a Rubric for each of your images. They are located on below. These are due with your projects on the first day of school.

You must have your images uploaded and your hard copies ready for class on the first day of school!
SUMMER RUBRIC #1
SUMMER RUBRIC #23D Design Summer ProjectsFor 3D AP Studio Only
Create 2: 100 points each

Choose 2 of the following projects and complete for critique during the first week of school:

A. Using any debris from your life (clothes, papers, food containers, cosmetics, reading material), assemble the materials into a life-size self-portrait bust, actual or metaphorical, in relief or in the round. You can use any means available (tape, glue, string, staples, screws, etc.) for connecting and sculpting the material.

B.  Using only natural materials (twigs, grasses, pods, stones, leaves) and twine or string, create a container for an object that has special meaning for you. The container must be at least 6 inches in one of its dimensions.

C.  Make a temporary environmental installation addressing any of the following: time, viewpoint, pathways, celestial events, social issues. Document in photographs and drawings.

D. Evolving form — create three objects whose forms are related yet different from each other. Each object must be at least 8 inches high. Forms can be vessels, figurative, realistic, or abstract. Use natural or synthetic clay.

E.  Go to Goodwill. Find an old appliance (toaster, blender, tv, etc.) Take it apart and glue it back together in a way that represents an idea, thought or feeling. Use the E6000 glue to assemble back together.

F. Your choice. Anything you want.

Oh yes, one more thing …

Trash picking: Collect a sizable boxful (or more) of interesting objects and junk. Broken objects, machine parts, natural objects, household items — anything that interests you in terms of shape, volume, texture, color, meaning, or social significance. Objects that are modular or occur in multiples can be especially useful. Bring to school the first week.

Documentation: Use your digital camera or phone, to take images of each of your completed summer work pieces. These images should be uploaded and placed into your “Summer Work” folder and on your weebly website labeled summer work.

Rubrics: You must complete a Rubric for each of your images. They are located on moodle. These are due with your projects on the first day of school.

You must have your images uploaded and your hard copies ready for class on the first day of school!