I want to know more about AP Art...

Below are links to the Collegeboard's website. Take some time to weave your way through the wealth of information and visual examples they provide.

If your child is completing a DRAWING portfolio
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/7881.html

If your child is completing a 2-D portfolio
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/3987.html

If your child is completing a 3-D portfolio
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/7880.html

Art III week four...

Art III students will spend Monday completing their drawings of the blocks of wood and nails. We will CRITIQUE ON THURSDAY, 8/30/12.

Students will finish the week creating collages in their sketchbooks. The collage must include...

                  PIECE OF CROSS-CONTOUR LINE REVIEW

                 PIECE OF SHAPE & COLOR REVIEW

                 PIECE OF MARBELIZED PAPER

                 ONE OF YOUR BLIND or MODIFIED CONTOUR LINE PORTRAITS

                 A FOCAL POINT – CENTER OF INTEREST – SOMETHING EMPHASIZED

                COVER TWO PAGES (next to each other)

     The collage may include...

                 PEN

                 WATERCOLORS

                 COLORED PENCIL

                OTHER COLLAGING MATERIAL

                DRAWING MEDIUMS

Art IV week four...

Art IV will spend the week completing the drawings of birdcages. We will CRITIQUE ON FRIDAY 8/31/12. 

the dreaded birdcage

AP Art week four...

AP Art will spend Monday and Tuesday finishing up the birdcages. We will CRITIQUE THURSDAY, 8/30/12.

AP Art will move onto a new Breadth assignment that incorporates line, shape and pattern. They will draw from a still life that is rich in texture and pattern. The students will begin the drawing using India ink and then switch to any color material: watercolor, acrylic, prismacolor, soft pastels to add the pattern.

Art III - week three

Art III students will create drawings that demonstrate NON-LINEAR & LINEAR PERSPECTIVE. They will draw over the marbelized paper we created last week using pen, pencil and white 
prismacolor.

AP Art & Art IV - week three

AP art students will consider the concept of using only LINE to create MASS/VOLUME.

Typically a drawing that shows mass is done with shapes... 

The challenge is to create volume without relying on the shape...

Students will use black and white charcoal on colored paper.

AP Art - week two

AP Art will continue to work on anatomy drawings. CRITIQUE/DUE DATE is Wednesday, 8/15/12.

We will finish out the week reviewing the scoring guidelines set by the collegeboard and practice 'reading' portfolios just like the judges will do.

ART IV-week two

Art IV will continue to work on the anatomy drawings. CRITIQUE/DUE DATE is Friday 8/17/12.

Art III - Week two

Art III will continue reviewing COLOR HARMONIES this week.

color review

The color reviews reference Henri Matisse's cut paper collages and Pablo Picasso's anti-war painting, Guernica.

Matisse, Sorrow of the King

Picasso, Guernica

We will also use the ancient Japanese technique of Suminagashi to create marbelized paper.

We will end the week with a review of LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR METHODS FOR CREATING PERSPECTIVE.

Art IV & AP Art - week one

Art IV and AP Art quickly reviewed classroom procedures and policies and then got right to work.
We have begun the year with drawings based off of anatomy illustrations from Science books. The student are using ink to demonstrate: VALUE, MARK MAKING, IMPLIED FORM & DIRECTIONAL SHADING.  All of these concepts are a review from Art III.

in progress

inspiration

finished piece

Art III - week one

We spent the week reviewing terms and techniques from Art I and II:

• Blind/Modified Contour Lines
• Cross- Contour Lines
• Shapes: organic vs geometric
• Color Harmonies: cool, warm, monochromatic, analogous, triadic, split compliment and complimentary

cross-contour line review

shape and color review