Dear Art Student

AS Summer Project

Task 1

You must complete 30 drawings for your summer project –work from your own Primary sources and add these photos as visual links to your compositions.

You can crop and zoom into to any image to allow you to focus your drawings on a key area. All of your drawings can be completed in a number of styles including line, analytical, crosshatch, illustrative, continuous line or stipple.

This can be completed using a range of drawing media including fine liner, pencil, charcoal, marker pen, biro, ink, or combination of any of the above mentioned.

You must explore all of the formal elements and make a note of this alongside your composition. This will include, line, shape and form, texture, colour, tone, positive and negative space, perspective and pattern.

  1. Animal/figure/portrait
  2. A bone/Carcass
  3. Face with Emotion
  4. A facial Feature
  5. Body Part
  6. A Vegetable or Fruit
  7. Food Packaging
  8. Mouldy/Rotting Food
  9. Draw the remains of an eaten piece of fruit
  10. Drinks Container
  11. Draw something contrasting over an existing Photograph
  12. Draw on a textured surface
  13. 1 Point Perspective
  14. 2 Point Perspective
  15. A Room/Environment
  16. Inside a Fridge or cupboard in Kitchen
  17. A utensil/tool
  18. A Landscape- Rural or Urban
  19. A Plant/Flower
  20. Complete a collage using Rubbings
  21. Water –Puddle, bubbles, rain, dripping tap etc.
  22. A vehicle
  23. An engine/machine/cogs
  24. A stain/mark/burn
  25. Pencil case open
  26. Something Red
  27. Something Blue
  28. Favourite food/item/possession
  29. Fear/dislike
  30. A piece of jewellery/watch

All 30 drawings must be completed for your first session back after the Summer Break.

Drawings can be in your own chosen media and formal elements listed, they can be a minimum size of 4”x6”(standard photo print) and maximum size A2.

This will allow teaching staff to assess your skills and suitability for the course, as well as be part of your select and present assessment in September for presentation on boards and group crits.

Previous student work

Task 2

You must complete a written report on one artist that you can link to your own style of working, this must be completed on a word document with at least one example of the artist work and analysis of thisincluding the title, artist, year, size and media.

If you have any concerns or questions you would like to ask please do not hesitate to contact me on before the 14th July or upon my return after Summer break on the 21st August.

Kind Regards

Gemma Ratcliffe

Fine Art Program Leader