Advanced Placement Studio Art: Drawing

Syllabus

Course Description

The APStudio Drawing Portfolio course is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of making art and wish to develop mastery in the concept, composition, and execution of their original ideas. Senior AP students will submit a portfoliofor evaluation at the end of the school year. In building the portfolio, students experience a variety of concepts, techniques and approaches designed to help them demonstrate their technical abilitiesand problem solving skills. This course is drawing intensive and requires work done outside of class. It is assumed by your teacher that you have strong drawing skills and do not need basic instruction in drawing skills.

Goals

• To encourage creative investigations of formal and conceptual issues in the Quality, Concentration, and Breadth sections of the portfolio.

•To emphasize making art as an on-going process that involvesthe student in informed and critical decision making.

• To develop technical versatility and skills while using the visual elements and principles in compositional forms.

• To encourage students to become independent thinkers who will contribute inventively and critically to their culture through the making of original art work.

Homework

As in any college-level course, it is expected that students will spend a considerable amount of time outside the classroom working on completion of assignments. Ideas for projects or solutions to problems should be worked out in a sketchbook both in class and outside of class. The sketchbook is an essential tool in recording ideas, capturing visual information, working on compositional issues, and just fooling around. Altered books/sketchbooks are checked frequently for progress.

Class Time

Students are expected to use the allocated class time for developing ideas and completing portfolio quality projects.Excessive cell phone use, lack of preparation and misuse of class time will result in failing participation grades.

AP Exam

Senior art students are expected to submit a portfolio for college credit in May, at the conclusion of the course. Juniors will be expected to submit a portfolio during their senior year. Students that do not submit a portfolio for review will not pass this coursefor the spring semester. AP portfolio submission will count as the final in this course, which equates to 20% of the semester exam.

Projects and Concepts

Using composition to enhance a drawing

  • Creativity through design
  • Cut paper drawings
  • Using the rule of thirds to create focal points
  • Bleach pen on fabric with watercolor and prisma
  • Design BasicsGeorgia O’Keeffe
  • Recognition and application
  • Golden Ratio of proportion
  • Coffee Paintings
  • AestheticsPicasso, Basquiat
  • Drawing thru gesture
  • Pretty Ugly
  • 5 ugly sketches of something beautiful

Compositions based on a new Aesthetic

  • Layered Self Portraits on canvasF. Bacon, J. Schnabel
  • Long stick paintings based on still life

Concentrations

  • Developing ideasArtists researched by Student
  • How to sketch
  • Build a concentration piece based on a concept from the Aesthetic Unit
  • An equation for image development

ConcentrationsArtists researched by Student

  • Build 2 concentration pieces based on concepts from the Composition Unit

Image Development and Presentation Techniques

  • 11 Techniques for developing images
  • Student generated still life
  • Draw from life using Image development and format ideas

ConcentrationsArtists researched by Student

  • Build 3 concentration pieces based on concepts from the image development Unit

Evaluation of portfolios

  • Photographing artwork
  • Explaining and summarizing artwork

The art projects for this semester require materials that the student must furnish. For your convenience, we are purchasing materials in bulk quality. The student may buy these materials through the art department.

The cost will be $20.00 for the entire year or $10.00 per semester. You may pay by cash, check, or money order. Please make checks payable to Frenship High School. It would be greatly appreciated if this lab fee could be paid as soon as possible.

Please also know that each senior student in AP Art is required to submit a portfolio as an Exam through the College Board. This happens at the completion of the course. The cost of this exam is $54 and will be due at the end of February. (The cost can be reduced if your student qualifies for free or reduced lunches.)

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call me at 866-4440 ext. 501. You may also reach me by e-mail at . If you would like to sign up for the text reminders that your student receives in this course, just text this code @mrmacle to this number 81010

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AP Art Agreement

Your signature below signifies that you understand the requirements for submitting an AP portfolio and you agree to complete all requirements to the best of your abilities.

Student Signature ______Date ______

Parent Signature ______Date ______