See the kid at the end of this meme? Do your summer homework!
Welcome to AP Studio Art!
Summer homework is assigned to better prepare you for the challenges that you will face in the upcoming school year.
Assignment
Create a Contest Winner!
The SCHS art department values self expression and risk taking above all else. This makes wonderful, unique and personal artwork, however....
We would like to win a few awards this year to showcase how great you are!
Over the Summer......
Please create a contest winner
Sketchbook/Ideas
In addition you should make what we call a "SWIPE FILE"
A Swipe File is a place where you keep all the things that you love that you want to "swipe" from when you are out of ideas.
Please collect 100 ideas
Research
15 minutes collecting from Curated Websites
15 minutes collecting from Pinterest, Google Images, New York Public Library or Mourge Files
15 minutes collecting from a Museum
15 minutes collecting from Social Media (Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat)
"Just as you have a familial genealogy, you also have a genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
You are in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into you life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
Summer homework is assigned to better prepare you for the challenges that you will face in the upcoming school year.
Assignment
Create a Contest Winner!
The SCHS art department values self expression and risk taking above all else. This makes wonderful, unique and personal artwork, however....
We would like to win a few awards this year to showcase how great you are!
Over the Summer......
Please create a contest winner
- The size should be no smaller than 8 x 10 inches preferable 18 x 12 inches. The medium and the type of surface used are up to you.
- Look at the winners of Scholastic Art Awards and notice the commonalities
- portraits, high contrast, realism, fills the frame, something unique
- Use incredible focus and dedication, take the time to make it perfect.
- This is about skill and less about meaning
- It is due the first week of school, you will get a grade on this
Sketchbook/Ideas
In addition you should make what we call a "SWIPE FILE"
A Swipe File is a place where you keep all the things that you love that you want to "swipe" from when you are out of ideas.
Please collect 100 ideas
Research
15 minutes collecting from Curated Websites
15 minutes collecting from Pinterest, Google Images, New York Public Library or Mourge Files
15 minutes collecting from a Museum
15 minutes collecting from Social Media (Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat)
"Just as you have a familial genealogy, you also have a genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
You are in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into you life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."