Studio Art Grading Rubric Monochromatic Painting Midterm Drawing and Painting

Design and complete a monochromatic painting after sketching an original idea. Your painting should include at least 4 values of the chosen color. Black and white may be added to enhance the design. Be sure your design is original and considers principles of composition. ( movement, contrast, unity, rhythm, pattern, balance) Your painting should nonobjective, and it may NOT include the commercial work of other artists. However, you may use reference materials gathered prior to that day.

Criterion / Standard 6
Outstanding
Achievement
4 / Standard 5
Excellent
Achievement
3.75 / Standard 4
Very Good
Achievement
3.5 / Standard 3
Average
Achievement
3.25 / Standard 2
Limited
Achievement
3 / Standard 1
Very Limited
Achievement
2.5-2.75
Composition: Articulation of elements or principles of design in handling composition and form / Demonstrates serious and successful engagement of elements and principles of design. / Demonstrates strong understanding of elements and principles / Uses the elements and principles to demonstrate drawing skills / Shows emerging understanding and application of elements and principles. / Shows little understanding of elements and principles. / Poorly composed, with minimal understanding of elements and principles
Technical Skills:
Use of monochromatic value and confident articulation of principles of design / Successful demonstration and command of stylistic as well as technical concerns. / Strong quality and successfully engages with most aspects of technique and materials / Strong quality, but with inconsistencies. Technical and ideas don’t totally mesh. / Moderate quality with weak and erratic technical skills. / Weak quality/ awkward. / Poor quality/inept
Lack of understanding of technique
Conceptual Skills: Problem Solving in effectively communicating
Visual ideas. / Work demonstrates successful experimentation,
risk taking or ambition. Addresses fairly complex ideas. / Evidence of thinking and strong sense of purpose or direction. / Good sense of direction, but not fully resolved. / No demonstration of purpose or direction evident. / Lacks clear sense of intention and little sense of exploration. Limited artistic decision making / Little evidence of thinking/artistic decision-making. Uses trite solutions to visual problems
Effort:
Perseverance and dedication in surface manipulation
and craftsmanship. / Superior use of paint. Exceptional craftsmanship / Good use of paint Good craftsmanship. / Some Could use small improvement with painted quality. / Finishes project, meeting most requirements of project / Finishes project, but may not in a satisfactory manner / Does not finish the project
Creativity:
Ideas behind project / Work shows flexibility of thinking, is imaginative inventive. / Work demonstrates a unique level of originality / Work demonstrates originality / Work lacked sincere originality / Work shows little evidence of original thought / Work shows no evidence of original thought