Your Summer Sketchbook AP/Honors Studio 2011 Art 3

Your sketchbook should be your new best friend this summer. You need to carry it with you everyday, everywhere; I do! Open it up first thing in the morning and last thing at night and many times in between. Draw in it, write in it, scribble in it, paint in it, glue into it, cut the pages, tear the pages, change the way it looks to make it look like your own. At the end of the summer, it should reflect YOU and your experience throughout the summer. Some advice ALWAYS FILL the page you are working on. Go off the edges whenever possible. Do not make dinky little drawing in the center of the page. Make every square inch count for something. Do not start something and abandon it. Go back later, change it and make it into something else. Being able to rescue bad beginning is the sign of a truly creative mind. ALWAYS finish what you start no matter how much you dont like it. Or if theres a page you dont like, paint over it, draw over it. DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DRAW FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, magazines, etc., unless you are dramatically altering it/transforming it/etc. Draw from pure observation, things you see in the world. Learn to translate the dynamic threedimensional world into a two-dimensional world. NO CUTE, PRETTY, PRECIOUS, ADORABLE, or TRITE images kitties, ponies, hearts, puppies, rainbows, peace signs, unicorns, sunsets, EYES, that type of stuff. This isnt a class to make pretty pictures to hang in your house. Expect your ideas about what makes good art to be challenged. By September 10, your sketchbook should be twice as thick as it was when you got it. The sketchbook is a place for risk taking. Dont invite criticism unless you are confident that it wont derail your freedom. This is just a piece of advice from me to you

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THE ARTIST AND HIS/HER SKETCHBOOK RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

Visit the websites below. Choose 3 that you are particularly fond of and use a page in your sketchbook to write/draw your reaction and analysis of what you see on those pages. Write what you like about what you see, what is unique about the artists style of journaling, and what you would like to take (I mean, be inspired by) from this artist. This analysis can be writing, drawing, or a combination of both.

SKETCHBOOK SITES links are on the class blogspot

www.hhsart3brennan.blogspot.com
www.kerismith.com, www.waynejiang.com, www.teeshamoore.com, Flickr visual journal pool www.johncopeland.com (his sketchbooks are AWESOME) http://www.daneldon.org/journals/index.html - Check out Dan Eldons stuff if youre taking photo AND art. http://visualjournaling.com/sketchbooks.html http://www.journalfodderjunkies.com/ http://www.guerzonmills.com/visual-journals/ http://www.arthousecoop.com/ http://www.sketchbookproject.blogspot.com http://1001journals.com/ www.duanekeiser.com www.karinjurick.com http://www.mattiasadolfsson.se/sketchbooks.html www.sketchbooks.org http://pamcarriker.com/

Sketchbook Prompts Summer 2011

what youve been doing in your visual journal in Art 2 this year.
1) begin again.... 2) gender 3) identity 4) vision 5) movement 6) observational drawing 1 7) I lost..... 8) the necessities of life are 9) observational drawing 2 10) commotion 11) I saw..... 12) historically speaking 13) observational drawing 3 14) transcendence 15) family ties 16) global community 17) green 18) metaphor 19) narrative 20) observational drawing 4 21) grids 22) arcs 23) repeat it 11 times 24) observational drawing 5 25) now I..... 26) self portrait 27) self portrait 28) self portrait 29) self portrait 30) self portrait 31) conflict 32) if I could 33)balance 34) ignition 35) harmony 36) itchy 37) shelter 38) entrapment

Choose 30 of the following prompts, words, phrases, or simply observational #4 or self portrait, interpret them visually however you wish. This allows for the most interpretation, latitude, and creative problem solving in. If you are uncertain of a word, look it up. More pages are encouraged. Due Friday September 10, 2011. This is exactly

39) possessions 40) atmosphere 41) ambition 42) I escaped..... 43) natural 44) man-made 45) political 46) observational 6 47) in the news 48) tragic 49) emo 50) 100 51) fear 52) ignorance 53) charged 54) observational 7 55) plastic 56) yesterday, I.. 57) feast 58) me, me and more me 59) fake 60) if I told him/her once, I told him/her 1000 times

EVERYONE MUST DO!!

61) Artist JOURNAL sites page (see other side)

PUT THE NUMBER OF THE ENTRY OR WORD ON THE BACK OF THE PAGE, IN PENCIL, IN A CORNER, write it small

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entries due FRIDAY SEPT. 10, 2011 30 from list + 1 page artist site

Summer 2011 Art Homework CheckLIST

Sketchbook work ~ 30 entries see content list DUE FRI. SEPT 10th, 2011 Sketchbook Artists research PAGE check blog for links to artists DUE FRI. SEPT 10th, 2011 Know Ms. Brennans e-mail if you have any questions, concerns, thoughts, suggestions, poems, funny storiesetc. mary_f_brennan@hcpss.org www.hhsart3brennan.blogspot.com

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Suggested supplies:

Sketchbook, SPIRAL BOUND -- Full length mirror Tackle box or hard pencil box to store your materials (dont get an Art Box; they are too expensive)

These are only SUGGESTED supplies acrylic paint, oil paint, pencils, charcoal, oil pastels, pastels, brushes, painting surfaces, canvas, etc. will ALL be provided for you next year!