week seventeen...

Keep on keeping on...

Art IV will keep working on their breakfast drawings.
Art III will keep working on their black and white portraits.
AP Art will keep working on concentration # 3.
Everyone will work on Scholastic Art Awards.

week sixteen AP Art...

AP Art students are working on concentration piece # 3. Critique will be Tuesday, December 4th - that is SOON!

AP Art week fourteen...

We will continue to work on CONCENTRATION # 2 this week. CRITIQUE will be MONDAY, 11/19/12.

AP Art week thirteen...

After we CRITIQUE on Monday, the students will start CONCENTRATION piece # 2. Each student will continue to work independently on his/her chosen theme.

AP Art week twelve...

AP Art students have switched form the breadth section of their portfolios to their concentrations. Each student is working independently this week on a student selected theme. Our first CRITIQUE will be MONDAY, 11/5/12.

AP Art week eleven...

It is time to begin the concentration section of our portfolios. We will complete some brainstorming exercises the first part of the week and then each student will begin working independently by Wednesday.

AP Art week ten...

AP Art will complete their GRISAILLE paintings this week and we will CRITIQUE on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th.

AP Art week eight...

AP Art will begin a new Breadth assignment this week. Their goal is to use architecture to demonstrate how light behaves. So their subject is architecture but their subject matter is how light reacts.

drawing will use acrylics

2-D will make a photo montage

AP Art week seven...

We critiqued our still lifes on Monday - they really turned out fantastic.

Tuesday was movie day. We watched the film Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion. A great documentary on the history of linear perspective.

Wednesday through Friday the students will create a drawing that exemplifies SHAPE TO FORM. 

Art IV and AP week six...

Art IV and AP students are continuing to work on their pattern/texture still life drawings.
AP Art will finish the drawing by the end of the week and CRITIQUE ON MONDAY 9/17/12.

AP Art & Art IV week five...

Art IV and AP Art will continue to explore pattern and texture with their still life drawings. They will use India Ink and and color medium of their choice to complete the assignment. One objective of the lesson is to juxtapose a flat picture plane with a suggestion of depth and space.

Here are some artists that did just that...            

Notice how Henri Matisse flattens the picture plane with the pattern on the wall and table but
suggests depth with the view out of the window.

Gustav Klimt pushes the boundaries of abstraction vs. realism when he juxtaposes a realistic figure
against such elaborate patterns. Beautiful!

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

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.

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 & 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