Beginning November 5Th, This Time Line Is the One to Use

AP Time Line – 2014/2015

Beginning November 5th, this Time Line is the one to use.

I am making adjustments to the schedule to allow you more freedom in what order you turn your work into me. Student Choice may be a Concentration piece or a Breadth piece; you must have 12 in each category. Just make sure you label the back with A-# so I know which work you are turning in. PLEASE keep up. The workload gets heavier 2nd semester. As long as the Assignments I require are included in your Portfolio, it doesn’t matter what order you turn your work in. I will allow lots of freedom within each piece, however, I will be grading based on the AP College Board Grading Criteria. I expect you to work in my class and outside of class. There is no way you can produce the quality and quantity of work needed to score well in only 45 minutes per day, 5 days per week = 3 hours and 45 minutes per week. Art classes in College require about 10 hours per week of work per class. Even if you are not planning on going into Art in college, your AP Art credit can count for an Elective. So work hard now and allow it to pay off.

This schedule and the due dates are YOUR responsibility to keep up. Do not get behind. THERE IS NO DOWN TIME IN AP ART!

***You must show me your sketch/composition BEFORE you get good paper for each project!!

The following should already be completed and photo ready:

B-1: Transformation Project – focus on imagination

B-2: Peter Max Inspired Project – focus on drawing the figure from life, contour lines, design qualities

B-3: Stream of Consciousness – started, due 12-1, focus on imagination and process

B-4: Reflective Self-Portrait – focus on portrait, value, and contrast

B-5: Still Life – focus on direct observation, value and contrast, possible color theory, due 11-7

The rest of this semester:

Art Criticism, p.68 in class on 11-10

C-1: 1st Concentration – assigned 10-27, due 11-12

A-1: Student Choice – due 11-17

A-2: Student Choice – due 11-21

A-3: Student Choice – due 12-1 (along with the Stream of Consciousness project)

A-4: Student Choice – due 12-8

A-5: Student Choice – due 12-12

A-6: Student Choice – Due 1-7-15 (Second Semester)

A-7: Student Choice – Due 1-7-15 (Second Semester)

Rough Draft of Concentration Statement – due 12-15

Your Semester Exam consists of 11 projects completed and photo ready. These count 9 points each.

What Not To Include in your Portfolio:

From College Portfolio Requirements: We recommend not including any of the following: anime or cartoons, Viking warrior men or women, tattoos, unicorns or other mythological creatures or any other overused imagery whether copied or original, copies from magazines or portraits of celebrities. This might be what you prefer to draw, but colleges look for a different type of original work. (Keep in mind, however, that nothing is absolute. If you are interested in illustration and want to submit one or two representations of work from reference material, limit this to one or two. The bulk of your portfolio should be drawing from direct observation.)

Composition is important. Try to avoid the typical composition of an object stuck in the middle of the paper. Consider placement before you start your piece – don’t leave it to chance. Do preliminary sketches or thumbnail sketches. From these sketches, choose the composition that you find most interesting. Letting your image run off the edges of the picture plane can break up the negative or background space. Be sure to show a full range of values in your drawings, whether you are drawing in black and white or color. It is important to show value contrast which is achieved by making shaded areas very dark and your lighted areas light. Consider your background as important as the imagery in your drawings as well. Don’t just concentrate on the image and quickly throw something on the background to get it done.

Look at the Colleges you are interested in attending and see what their requirements consist of and use your AP Portfolio to fulfill these requirements too.

Required assignments for your Portfolio need to include: If you are 2-D Design, include Design Elements, Color Theory, Repetition, etc. to fit your portfolio. ALSO 2-D Students need to have Typography in at least one of your projects.

·  Direct Observational Drawings – minimum of 3, the more the better

·  Figure – minimum of 1 strong one

·  Self-Portrait – minimum of 1 strong one

·  Portrait – minimum of 1 strong one (this could be another Self-Portrait or combined with the Foreshortening Project)

·  Foreshortening – minimum of 1 strong one (if it includes a face, then can count as 2nd Portrait project)

·  Value/Contrast

·  Color Theory

·  Imagination and Creativity

·  Interesting Compositions and crops of images

·  Don’t forget your Concentration MUST HAVE VISUAL COHERENCE!

Optional Project Ideas:

·  Printmaking

·  Collage (I have 2 great examples of this to show the class. Ask if you are interested)

·  Mixed Media

·  Painting

·  Photoshop (great example of Layers Inspired by Brett Henderson)

·  Exaggerated Expressive Portrait including Color Theory

·  Linear Perspective

·  Surrealism

·  Cardboard

·  Socio/Political Issues

Semester 2:

A-6: due 1-7-15

A-7: due 1-7-15

A-8: Student Choice, due 1-20-15 Make this one strong to enter into VASE

A-9: Student Choice, due 1-30-15

A-10: Student Choice, due 2-9-15

VASE COMPETITION: 2-28-15 You must be passing and present to participate. HIGHLY Encouraged for all AP students to participate since this is our only State Event.

A-11: Student Choice, due 2-17-15

A-12: Student Choice, due 2-26-15

Set up College Board site and start loading images. Must have 12 images loaded into College Board by 3-17 with media, sizes and written commentary.

No new work assigned over Spring Break, but if you are behind, GET CAUGHT UP!

A-13: Student Choice, due 3-6-15

A-14: Student Choice, due 3-24-15

A-15: Student Choice, due 4-2-15

District Art Show, mandatory participation, help set up and tear down, and attendance (at least one of the days) April 17-18. Set up is Wednesday April 15th and Thursday April 16th. We host the show this year so we will need lots of volunteers too. Service hours will be given.

Put Display Board together for District Art Show – 4-15-15 Wed Board due End of Class

A-16: Student Choice, due 4-13-15

A-17: Student Choice, due 4-21-15

A-18: Student Choice, due 4-27-15

***All 24 images must be loaded, with media, sizes, in the correct order and with the final written commentary. Ready to send to College Board. This is a Major Grade!! Images Due 4-30-15 for a Major Grade! (Late Submission is Friday MAY 1st!!!!! ABSENT OR NOT)

*** Thursday April 30th is the due date for Digital Submission. All 24 images must be in the correct order, size and medium listed for each, and the updated written commentary uploaded into the College Board website. These must be submitted to me by 6 pm that night. This counts as a major grade. Friday May 1st, is the final date (late points will be deducted). I have to double check everything and have time to submit these to the AP Coordinator so they can forward them onto College Board.

Around April you will be tired and tired of AP Art. Don’t give up, you are on the home stretch. This class takes a lot of time and dedication. Please make the most of each piece. There is no time to start over or make something new. Make it count from the beginning. Have Fun!!