Studio Arts AP
AP Studio Art: Drawing/2D
The Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art Class creates an opportunity for highly motivated individuals to participate in a challenging class that will prepare students for portfolio submission and possible college credit and/or appropriate placement in a college or university. This is a combined course that allows students to choose early in the semester the development of either the Drawing or 2D Design Portfolio.
Students will associate drawing with mark making. Drawing can include printmaking and painting. Students will associate 2D Design with the organization of the elements and principles of design to showcase a successful composition on a flat surface. 2-D can include drawings, photographs and graphic design.
One portfolio will be prepared by each student that will consist of a minimum of twenty-four pieces of work presented to the Collage Board in slide form. Five of these will also be submitted to the committee matted as examples of the students best work. Work submitted for the portfolio can include art created prior to and outside of the AP Studio Art Course.
The course enables a sustained investigation and development of the following three sections of the AP Portfolio. The first is the development of an artistic breadth of experience. Second is the student’s focus and development of a visual idea defined as a concentration, and third is the continual process of creating works of great quality & craftsmanship.
Students are expected to have completed or complete in the summer the following works on 11x 17” or larger size paper. Use high contrast color or value. Avoid using pencil. Choose only one portfolio:
Drawing Portfolio Candidates:
1. Draw your face and neck and add some objects in the background that express your personality. Show big contrast in the value or shading. Or draw yourself expressing some type of emotion: happiness, sadness, etc. Use colors that match the mood you are trying to show.
2. Draw a space, focusing on One or Two Point Perspective such as buildings, and or the inside of a room.
3. Focus on an interesting part of an object, and draw this part in a larger scale. For example, cut an orange in half and draw or paint the inside of it to a larger proportion. Or find an insect, and draw it at a much larger scale.
2-D Design Portfolio Candidates:
1. Do a portrait, self-portrait, still life, or landscape using either a complementary, analogous, or split-complementary color scheme (you may use black and white as well as shades and tints of the chosen colors).
2. Landscape: Do a drawing on location-the beach, the park, looking down your street, your backyard, or a study of part of a tree form.
3. Focus on one part of an object, and draw it in a larger scale. For example, cut an orange in half and draw or paint it larger than life. Or find an insect, and draw it at a much larger scale.