~~PVHS 2011 Advanced Placement Projects~~

First Semester Project Assignments, Due Dates, and Wrapping UP:

Project

Glass and Object in Water

Cubist Abstract

Up Close Abstract (Refrigerator perspective was in here somewhere also.)

Nine Square Design

Drapery And Object

Mandala

Student in a Box Photos taken 10/20- To be assigned: 10/27

No New Assignment 11/3

Contour Line  Drawings 11/10 Fifteen to be completed in pencil.

No New Assignments to be  Made 11/17

No New Assignments to be Made 12/1

No New Assignments to be Made 12/8 ALL WORK DUE!!

Date of Rough Check

9/29

10/6

10/13

11/17

Interim Notes

9/29

10/6

10/13

10/20: 4 sketches and a Final RD!

Will look at all 15 and confer on several to "complete"

Due Date: COMPLETED!

9/29

10/6

10/13

10/27: 4 sketches and a Final RD!

The first glass and object in water shouldn't go in your portfolio but may as last resort.

Contour Line Drawings
(Bink on images to see line details) 

View the art of Zhiyang Rong here.....

Might you get an idea from this PhotoBooth illustration?

Student in a Box
Consider how you feel when you want to hide in a box and get away from it all.  We ALL feel this way once in a while.  What are the best elements and principles you can employ to convey this expression?  Think in terms of color, value, balance, textures, line, contrast, unity, rhythm, etc.  What have other artists done to convey this state of being?  What might you ADD to the artwork besides what is supplied in the original photograph?

Consider working in any medium, but perhaps one that is best conducive to what you are trying to communicate: Watercolor, mixed media, acrylic, pastels, scratch-board, oil pastels, collage, ink, pencil, pen and ink, other?

Mandala Project
Go to The Mandala Project to see hundreds of mandalas for ideas.

From the same website:  Describing both material and non-material realities, the mandala appears in all aspects of life: the celestial circles we call earth, sun, and moon, as well as conceptual circles of friends, family, and community. A mandala is an integrated structure organized around a unifying center.



Interesting mandala sites:
Make an Abstract Mandala
Free Coloring Pages to be used for format ideas only.
Hubcaps! 

Instructions you may use:
Draw your wedge.  Decide if it will be one of (most likely) four, six, or eight.  Plan out design in pencil.  Criteria:  

-at least 3 continuous elements (things that would line up and continue all the way around), 

-2 stand-alone items (things that would not line up),

-a variety of line types (thin, thick, etc), and a balance between positive and negative (black and white)

How to line things up  i.e.  maybe measure 3 inches up on one side of the wedge, then 3 inches up on the other side of the wedge.  A line drawn between those two points will line up and go all the way around the circle when the wedges are put together.
Complete wedge using black fine pen and a black sharpie marker.  Check wedge with me.  Trace whatever number of times is needed to complete mandala.

 

 
Your project:
Design a mandala using an obvious theme.


Consider (be able to talk about):
Use of color scheme and/or neutrals?
Symmetrical (radial), or a-symmetrical?
Round, square or oval?
Sections: three, four, more?
Use of medium?  
Shapes, forms, lines, textures, images to be used?
Will it be (is it) COLLEGE LEVEL WORK?

Drapery Project

Still life with drapery.  Click on these to enlarge and study the techniques used for each.  How might you employ these?  What subject might you like to include, if any? Answer the questions provided in class and submit on Oct. 6 along with your rough draft.
More images can be found with a Google search of "Drapery Drawing."


For a little "How to Draw Drapery," go to this tutorial or this one.

All images may be enlarged, for better or worse.
All artwork above this text was done by Orland High School students.
MANY, MANY more ideas can be lifted from the College Board AP Central Website.  Got to AP Studio Art Drawing Drawing Portfolio; near the bottom of the page are portfolio examples of Quality, Concentration and Depth.

Marianne Beck

Refrigerator interiors show knowledge of perspective.

Check out France Belleville!!

Robert Burridge

Choose what design element you want to focus on for your Nine Design Project. These above emphasize use of color.

Jason Line

The following art AP Portfolio samples as pasted on the CAEA Ning by Mr. Ryan Pace of Rio Vista High School:

Ideas pirated from a variety of online venues:

Design Breadth Ideas from AP College Board.com follows.  See MANY more ideas at-- AP Central's Design Portfolios

 DESIGN PROJECTS IDEAS

Go to Showcase of Inspirational Typography and look around at the possibilities!