Each assignment is due the first day of the week that you come to class. Sketches are worth 50 points each. Please take your time and think about the assignment, push yourself to be as artistically creative as possible and put forth a good effort.

On the bottom of each page draw a line 2.5 inches up. In this area place the assignment sticker and write about your work; tell how or why you came up with your idea, what medium you used, and what you especially like about your finished composition. This needs to be a paragraph with five or more sentences. Please use the art vocabulary that is in the assignment in the paragraph. Please underline each art vocabulary word.

Fill the page with creatively drawn numbers. Use at least 3 different numbers overlapping them. Use color to complete the composition.

Draw an interior. Do not draw a building. Be creative and realistic.

Paste a 2” square of a magazine picture on the paper, then finish the composition.

Create a unique color wheel. Use primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

If you received a handmade card from one of these artists what would it look like? Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent vanGogh, Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassett or Salvador Dali.

Fill the page with miniature drawings of everything that relates to you and your life. Page must be filled, no blank space and all items reduced to approximately the same size.

Create a design using elements from Magazine or newspaper images. Cut and paste the images onto the page to create the design.

Using graph paper, create a composition with a square, a rectangle, and a triangle. Each shape must touch at least one edge and overlap at least one other shape. Fill the shapes with color patterns and fill the background with black and white patterns.

Create a grid on the paper, with at least five unequal divisions. Select a theme or motif. Put that in each of the divisions in different and interesting viewpoints.

Choose an item that you see everyday and don’t really look at. Using that item, create a composition to force the viewer to look at the item with new appreciation. Use color.

Draw a landscape of a favorite place. Use color. You can use photos for reference.

Create a mythological creature. Use color.

Using the entire paper, create a flag that reflects your personally. In the paragraph explain the symbolism you used.

Fill the composition with a symmetrical pattern. Use color.

Design a car, boat, plane, motorcycle, etc. Describe what special things your vehicle can do in the paragraph. Use color.

 

Art II Sketch Assignments
March 1st  – April 26th  

 

Each assignment is due the first day of the week that you come to class. Sketches are worth 50 points each. Please take your time and think about the assignment, push yourself to be as artistically creative as possible and put forth a good effort.

On the back of each assignment, you are required to write about your work; label with the idea, tell how or why you came up with your idea, what medium you used, and what you especially like about your finished composition. This needs to be a paragraph with five or more sentences.

Week of March 1^st:
Create a portrait of how you see yourself.

 

Week of March 8^th:

Create a portrait of how others would see you.

 

Week of March 15^th:

Create a portrait of how your family sees you.

 

Week of March 22^nd:

Create a portrait of what you once were.

 

Week of March 29^th:

Create a portrait of what you will become.

 

Week of April 6^th:

Create a portrait of you as an animal.

 

Week of April 12^th:
Design a logo that would represent your personality.

 

Week of April 19^th:
Draw your perception of the word limbo.

 

Week of April 26^th:
Draw your perception of the word transition.

 

 Art III & IV Sketch Assignments

Visual Artifact Journal

A two-page spread will be due the first day of the week that class is held.

You are to find or produce an artifact to affix to the pages that you find to be visually engaging. A two part reflection will then be added to the pages:

·         Contextual account (how/why the artifact was selected and why it is important to you).

·         Detailed description (use art terminology and descriptive language).

Grading is based on:

·         Completion: Is there an artifact and a two part reflection?

·         Thorough description of visual qualities: Use of art terminology and descriptive language.

·         Contextual discussion of artifact.

Variety of artifacts: Are you doing the same thing over and over? Do you have man-made objects, natural objects, photos, drawings…?

 

Ceramics Sketch Assignments 

Each assignment is due the first day of the week that you come to class. Sketches are worth 50 points each. Please take your time and think about the assignment, push yourself to be as artistically creative as possible and put forth a good effort.

Your sketch assignment this year will be drawing ideas for ceramic works of sculptural art.  Draw your ideas from two to three different views (top, side, other side if different), use shading and color.

On the back of each assignment, you are required to write about your work; tell how or why you came up with your idea, how you will make it, what type of decoration is added (if any), and glaze you might use on it.