Assignment 1: Student Sites

First things first...you will be creating an online site you will use for the year.  Decide what you want your site and "work" image to look like.  This is where you will post everything from ideas to completed assignments.  I will have access to the site so I can follow your progress, your concepts, work you would like to reconsider, and ultimately this is where I will be able to follow your journey through the AP Studio year.

A few things to consider when creating the design.  Your site is for your use only, but keep in mind, you will be visible not only me, but to NDB and anyone you share the site with.  Keep what you create and what you post professional at all times.

You are welcome to post images you capture other than assignments but please label them with the name and site of the artist.  If you cannot find those, do not post.

Use the following link to start your new site: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g#welcome

Once you have completed your site, email me the link so I can add it to the class blog.

Post sketches, work in progress, concentration concepts, and final images for your portfolio.  With each FINAL image, post the media used, size, title, and a reflection on the piece.  I'll be using your posts to grade, comment on your work and ideas I'd like you to think about so please keep them up to date.

I'm excited!  Welcome to AP Studio 2020-2021!

The MASTERWORK Sketchbook

I know you all have sketchbooks of one kind or another, but this is a different approach geared specifically for the concentration section of your portfolios.  It is a way to really define what your investigation is, how you think about every piece and the direction you're traveling, and how to keep track of what influences you and your work.  

AP Studio Art

 Kuntz

The New Sketchbook

Each AP Studio student will receive a sketchbook. This sketchbook will contain the ongoing
documentation for the investigation component of your AP Portfolio. Your thought process may
include  inspirational artists, drawings, thumbnails, critiques and research, and anything else you
might incorporate in your investigation. There should be room for 15 sections – one for each of
your “investigation” pieces. A suggestion for what each section would hold might include 

but is not limited to the following:

1. Critiques
2. Self Evaluation
3. Color Studies
4. Artists of Inspiration (if applicable)
5. Reference Photos
6. Thumbnails
7. Additional Prep Materials as needed

Sketchbooks are due for critique and grading on the day each investigation piece is complete. 

The sketchbook is worth a total of 15 grades worth 100 points each.

Critiques will be documented and should be kept in the sketchbook.
Critiques will contain the following:

1. Description/what is your investigation?

2. Analysis/content

3. Interpretation/what is your message?

4.Process

5. Next steps

Your portfolio will include 15 “masterworks” - one for each investigation piece. Each of the
masterworks  are expected to show growth and development. Each masterwork should begin
with a series of thumbnails or preparation sketches, vital to creating a successful work of art. 

Sketches should include the following:

1. Composition

 2. Size/scale

3. Color/Black and White/Monochromatic

4. Media/technique

What is Visual Journaling?

You may already do it.  You may already know what "visual" journaling is to you, but there are many, many ways of thinking about how to get to those concepts and images you will be using (and want to be using) in your art.  Please take a minute (the link is actually 49 seconds) of a student talking about her visual journal. 

Visual Journaling

Now, think about the concepts I've asked you to include in your Masterwork sketchbooks.  

I'll be looking for your first Masterwork sketchbook by the end of next week.  10/5/18.

For all of my students who will be following this blog, you will come to see this as either the bane of your existence or your salvation...  Time is fleeting.  School begins in a few short weeks and I'm anxious to see your summer ideas and the museum visit.  How are you finding them?  Are your ideas thoughtful?  Do you think they'll make a great portfolio?  This is the year of the 5.  For all of you. Commit now and let's DO this.  No excuses.

Now go do art.

Investigation Ideas (to name a few...)

1. Car part ads
2. Portraits detailing emotions
3. Portraits detailing odd body positions
4. Extreme abstract close ups
5. Extreme abstract close ups of nature
6. Normal things using alternate colors
7. What people throw away
8. Family heirlooms
9. Variations of one thing
10. Seasons
11. Recreations of famous art pieces
12. Close ups of person - abstracted
13. Designing shoes/shoe close ups
14. Portraits of things broken or ruined
15. Opposites (ie: something hot as cold)
16. Textures
17. Animals.insects in environment
18. Close ups of sports equipment
19. Close ups of art supplies
20. Distortion
21. Optical illusions
22. Where has it been? (ie: the dollar)
23. Items upside down or backwards
24. Items missing something vital
25. Images inspired by songs
26. Cause and effect
27. War and its effect
28. Landscapes: day and night
29. Perspective
30. Significant buildings
31. Accessories
32. Sunglasses and faces
33. Scenes from dreams
34. Scenes from books
35. Self portraits with traits exaggerated
36. Illustrate a story
37. Line drawings of objects
38. What will the future be?
39. Past and present
40. Modern and historic
41. Odd, interesting people
42. A day in the life of...
43. One object 12 different views
44. Technology
45. Different cultures
46. The Heavens (planets, stars, etc.)
47. Aerial views
48. Stages of growing up
49. Things whole, broken up
50. Surrealism paintings
51. Real to life with surreal background
52. Hands doing things - different media
53. 12 different parts of a face, together creating a whole face again
54. People who are angry (happy, sad)
55. Buildings
56. City scenes
57. People in motion
58. Innocence
59. Nature scenes
60. One person, portrait young to old
61. Areas of concern in America
62. Old photographs
63. Polaroids
64. The act of protest
65. Shape (altering with diet/weights)
66. Triumph
67. Using trash to create
68. Teenage life
69. Monochromatic (life?)
70. The game of life
71. Childhood mementos
72. Family vacations
73. Family members
74. A friend’s different moods
75. First day of school pictures
76. Elderly
77. Playgrounds
78. Door handles
79. Bathrooms
80. Scenes from a music video
81. Beach scenes
82. Undersides of desks and chairs
83. Insides of things
84. Jewelry
85. Zippers
86. Metamorphosis
87. Close ups of favorite foods
88. Sweat
89. Beauty of hands - how they are used
90. Generations
91. Things we desire
92. Love/friendship
93. Vulnerability
94. Change
95. Hope
96. Appropriation
97. Helping others
98. Picking up after hard times
99. Newspaper headlines
100. Natural disasters
101. Human emotion
102. Leaving things behind
103. Adventures
104. Nonconformity/individuality
105. Conformity 
106. Sameness
107. Comfort zones
108. War and peace
109. Diversity
110. Beauty in simplicity
111. Where have you been?
112. Forever young
113. Evolution of objects
114. Light
115. Sound
116. Motion
117. Abandoned buildings
118. The smallest parts of a whole
119. Media impact
120. Parts of the body to represent different emotions
121. Necessary objects
122. Communication tools
123. Different scenes through broken glass
124. Famous speeches (...to be or not to be...)
125. Photographs telling part of a story
126. Windows/mirrors
127. Fire
128. Water
129. Earth
130. Wind
131. Comic strip
132. Parties
133. Skeletal structure
134. Wood
135. Walking on the ceiling
136. Through the eyes of animals
137. Life as a napkin
138. Life as a paperclip 
139. Life as a ____________
140. No skin, just the inside
141. Negatives
142. Pure line
143. Overconfidence
144. Fashion designs
145. Illustrate a book
146. Night scenes
147. Opposites
148. Same place, different time
149. Decades
150. Fruits inside and out
151. Produce
152. Sleeping people
153. Patterns
154. What is art to you?
155. School life
156. Your surroundings
157. Refuge
158. Current issues
159. Death
160. Abstraction of every day life
161. Different rooms - what makes them interesting
162. Hats
163. Fear
164. Poverty
165. Interiors and Exteriors
166. The figure in space
167. Abandoned houses
168. Deterioration - the body, a structure
169. Morning rituals
170. Shadows - extreme
171. Reflections in surfaces
172. Interpretations of one object
173. Creating a drawing for every line of a song or poem
174. Decaying objects
175. Illumination with candle light
176. Drawings/paintings in different artistic styles
177. Daily Routines
178. People and their pets
179. Jobs
180. Horses
181. Trash versus treasure - who decides?
182. Bedrooms
183. What’s in your closet?
184. Child labor
185. Poster events (rodeos, carnivals, etc.)
186. Homelessness
187. Unfinished things
188. Assemblages
189. Boxes
190. Boxes as a metaphor
191. Stages of Life
192. Paths
193. Unusual environments
194. Colors as influences
195. Seeing color where others don’t
196. Chairs
197. Art and text
198. Illustrate Shakespeare
199. Illustrate a famous historical event - (JFK assassination, Harvey Milk and SF gay rallies)
200. Body language
201. Drawings of reflective materials
202. Dolls
203. Drawing over time (one setting adding a new element every day)
204. Drawing in each color scheme (warm, cool, analogous, etc.)
205. Pop Art analyzed personally
206. Organic materials used non-organically (clothing? transportation?)
207. Changing landscape (Monet)
208. Emotions through abstraction
209. Temporary art - graffiti, sand on sidewalk, dust on car windows)
210. Toast
211. Clouds
212. Light fixtures
213. 7 Deadly Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)
214. Kitchen objects
215. Focus on Vermeer (friends set up in famous positions)
216. Fauvist style landscapes of favorite places
217. Human influences on environment
218. Close up of machines
219. Emulating artists’ styles
220. Braids
221. Interior of moving things
222. Unusual landscape alteration
223. Portraits with your mother
224. Portraits with your art
225. 27 dresses