2017-2018 Advanced and AP Topics
Learn the Elements of Art (parts found in artwork)
Learn how to use the Principles of Design (how parts are manipulated and combined together)
Ideas for advanced level projects:
Perspective
Foreshortening
Unusual surface
Traditional Mixed media (a drawing medium and painting medium together)
Symmetry (Balance)
Work with childhood games/memories
Opaque
Transparent
Figure drawing on location
Self-portrait with a twist - unusual perspective, as a tribal member, in the style of a master artist,
Symbolism (Tell a personal story while keeping it private)
Composition based on a grid - see Paul Klee work, Eye From a Mirror grid,
Cubism photo collage - see David Hockney’s ‘joiners’
Abstract typography
Divide and re-arrange (on a grand scale)
Extreme pattern
Neo-Dada mixed media collage - see Robert Rauschenberg
Recycled book
Visual Pun
Printmaking
Magnify
Interiors
Monochromatic
AP Studio Art - Drawing project list
Extreme and unusual expressive portrait
Still Life created in an innovative method/perspective/process (for example - in the style of a master artist, re-invented color palette)
Use of mark-making
Use of gray scale value
Use linear perspective
Transparency
Line drawing - Gesture drawing, blind contour drawing. Create contour, cross contour, gesture and more realized drawings of common objects. Look at Jim Dine’s tool series. Look at Vija Celmin’s early work. L
Drawings with Line Quality
Hands - composed in a realistic and expressive way
Drawing on an unusual surface/mixed media
Use of texture and repetition and pattern
Figure drawing
Small man-made or Natural object enlarged and abstracted in color. Create a drawing of a toy. Explore media: graphite, colored pencil, crayon.
Create an experimental drawing process on an experimental surface
Use high contrast (i.e. postive/negative space. photocopied face/body part)
Drawing of a shiny reflective surface - spoon, gazing ball, christmas ball, toaster
AP Studio Art - 2D project list
Close up of natural object with limited color scheme
Altered book pages
Mixed media on unusual surface (i.e. map) with flat 3D objects and
Mixed media with elements sewn on with a sewing machine
Black and white pattern/repetition (Zen Doodle)
Pattern/Repetition using color theory
Collage with a strong use of one of the Principles of Design
Reinvent a masterpiece with collage elements
Decorative and detailed painting using flat color
Posterized portrait - portrait using only 3 values - light, medium, dark
Design that use text in an innovative and unusual way
Use positive and negative space. Create a negative space drawing of a group of chairs. Color in the negative space in an interesting way. (Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain)
Human figure with a strong use of one of the Principles of Design
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