Concentration Deadlines and Critiques

AP Studio Concentration Deadlines

Friday, November 12 Concentration #1
Friday, December 3 Concentration #2
Friday, December 17 Concentration #3
Friday, January 7 Concentration #4
Friday, January 21 Concentration #5
Friday, February 4 Concentration #6
Friday, February 25 Concentration #7
Friday, March 4 Concentration #8
Friday, March 18 Concentration #9
Friday, April 1 Concentration #10
Friday, April 22 Concentration #11
Friday, April 29 Concentration #12

Draw What You Hear

Sketchbook Homework Assignment
Draw What You Hear

Using your sketchbooks, complete a series of 6 drawings based on what you hear, rather than on what you see. Take note of the suggestions above:
DON”T draw the object making the sound!!
Use lines, shapes and forms.
Use color!
The idea is to visualize sound and interpret what you hear as a resource for visual imagery.
Sketchbook checks will be made:
• Tuesday, October 12 (2 sketches)
• Friday, October 15 (4 total sketches)
• Tuesday, October 19 (6 total sketches)

Landscape Homework Assignment

In working toward developing our Conceptual Landscape, each student should gather as much research information as possible on subject matter. In addition to our in-class studies, each student will be required to complete a series of observational sketches of their own backyard. These sketches should focus on elements of texture, shape, color, value and form and should also look toward the principles of correct proportion and unity of elements when studying the relationships between various objects in the landscape. These sketches should amount to approximately 2.5 hours of outside class time and the resulting drawings should be commensurate with that time allotment. Sketches may vary from detailed observations of a specific object to compositional studies of broader vistas.

Deadline: Friday 9/24

Homework Assignment #1: The Glass Still Life

Your first at home drawing for the Breadth Portfolio section is due on Friday, Sept. 17. The drawing must conform to the following criteria:

1. No smaller than 14" x 17"
2. The drawing should extend to all 4 sides of the paper or canvas.
3. The drawing is in black & White, but media is left to student choice (pencil, charcoal, conte, etc.)

Subject for the drawing is a glass still life. This can entail any collection of 3 or more glass objects in a compositional arrangement. This may include common items such as water glasses (full or empty or half-full, etc.), vases, crystal figurines, etc., but thespecific glass object will be left to the student's own resources.

Remember the following in planning and executing your drawing:
1. Focus on what the glass is reflecting—not the glass itself.
2. Focus on your light sources.
3. Tone and value are very, very important when drawing glass
4. ALL transparent objects are comprised of dark and light patterns in varying degrees of value.
5. You don’t always have to draw the exact reflection—sometimes you can just indicate the reflection as a diffused image (draw just the patterns and not the picture).
6. VERY important in drawing glass—Highlights, midtones, darks---work the darks first, then the highlights and then fill in the midtones.


Critique will take place in class on Friday, Sept. 17.

AP Review During CAPT

On Monday March 8, we will be holding an AP Review in room 374. Students should bring their 5 Quality choices for in-class viewing, and have digital images prepared for their Breadth and Concentrations sections which we will be reviewing during this time period. These digital images should be in .jpeg format under the guidelines set by the Collge Board. Images may be uploaded to the AP Studio drop folder on the student drive, or placed on a USB drive. The images should be separated into two folders: one for Breadth and the other for Concentration. At this point all students should have 7 Concentration pieces finished.

Sketchbook Assignment #2

Sketchbook Assignment #2
Tell the story of an object's life.

In this sketchbook assignment, you will be using your sketchbook to make a series of studies of one specific object. You will choose the object, and in addition the setting, tone, mood, and point-of-view will all be determined by you as the artist.
The goal of this assignment is to have you create a narrative of the many facets of the object’s life based on your own imaginative and creative powers.

A total of 12 different scenarios must be completed by March 19.

For example: a mug in brown wrapping tied with string; Steaming on a cosy table with a beloved's teacup alongside; sitting alone on a draining board; sitting on a desk full of pencils, with a torn photograph; broken in pieces in the wastebasket. You might tell the story of a beloved teddy, a bunch of flowers, a bottle of wine, or a dollar bill. Need a challenge? Look for the most mundane object you can think of! Contemporary objects - such as a mobile phone - can be difficult, because we have no artistic tradition to refer to when representing them.

First Sketchbook Check: Friday, March 5 (3 scenarios)
Second Check: Friday, March 12 (7 scenarios)
Third Check: Friday, March 19 (12 scenarios)

3rd marking Period Critique Dates

We are now in the midst of our individual concentrations, and it is imperative that each student maintain a schedule of work both inside and outside the classroom studio in order to insure that the AP deadline is met. The scheduled AP Art Studio deadline is Friday, May 7. This means that all artwork needs to have been finished, photographed, prepared and uploaded by this date.
Students can register for the online submission at https://apstudio.ets.org/apstudioart/
The following dates should be reserved for class critiques:

Concentration Work #6 - Feb. 8 (This will include Concentration Work #5 whose deadline was Jan. 21)
Concentration Work #7 - March 1
Concentration Work # 8 - March 15
In order to keep your portfolio on track for the AP test,you should have works finished by the following dates after these assigned critiques:

Work #9 - March 26
Work #10 - April 9

This entails 5 Concentration works due this marking period (which ends on April 9).
Each student will need to register with the AP College Board and we will set up in class schedules for individual students in order to photograph all portfolio pieces (breadth and concentration.)