Harvest Co-op ~ Sketchbook Assignments ~ 8TH Grade ~ 2011-12 SKETCHBOOKS ARE DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS EVERY THURSDAY

All students need to do at least one nished sketch per week in your sketch book. The purpose of a sketchbook is to encourage you look harder at things, use your imagination, and explore ideas and techniques that interest, challenge, and stimulate you. In addition to the weekly sketchbook assignment, you are encouraged to ll this space with your artistic plans, notes, and collections. Use your sketchbook as a place to let out your ideas and thoughts through your art. Sketchbooks will be due every week at the beginning of class. Each sketchbook assignment should take between 30 and 60 minutes and must be done on your own time during the week. The assignments are worth 100 points each. You will receive 100 points for drawings that meet the following expectations:

great attention to detail

1. Draw the inside of your closet 2. Draw the contents of your desk drawer 3. Draw the contents of your refrigerator 5. Draw the contents of your medicine chest 6. Draw the contents of your garage 7. Draw your dads work table after hes worked on a project 8. Before the dishes are washed, draw them 9. Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed 10. Draw a pile of bicycles on the sidewalk 12. Draw the guests at a dinner party 13. Draw yourself in a mirror 14. Draw your brother/sister/friend practicing his/her instrument 15. Draw your hand in multiple positions 16. Draw your hand holding a variety of objects 17. Draw your hand against other parts of anatomy (chin, knee, etc.) 18. Draw your bird, cat, dog, sh, snake, leopard, lobster acting unusually

19. Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car 20. Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape 21. Draw a ower growing next to a turned over garbage can 22. Draw a piece of cake and make it look delicious 23. Draw one popcorn kernel; draw a bag of popcorn 24. Draw moving water, still water 25. Draw an object when looking through a tube (microscope) 26. Draw an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a difference) 28. Draw something oating28. object in a light environment Draw a dark

29. Draw a dark object in a dark environment 30. Draw the contents of a light room when sitting in a dark room 31. Climb a ladder, draw what is below 32. Climb a mountain (hill), draw what is below 33. Lie on the oor, draw what is eye level

34. Dig a hole, put a whole in the hole, draw what is in the hole 35. Fill in the hole, cover up the whole, draw the covered hole 36. Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd 37. Find a quiet place, draw the quiet 38. Find a noisy place, draw noise 39. Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the cast shadow 40. Draw an object that is lit by a candle 41. Draw a gure that is lit by a candle 42. Draw your sister/brother by the light cast by the TV or computer screen 43. Draw your father/mother by the light cast from the TV or computer screen 44. Draw an apple, pear, banana 45. Draw an apple, banana, and a wrench 46. Draw a scoop of ice cream and an old shoe 47. Draw an apple, a vacation photo, a hammer and a gold sh 48. Tighten a C clamp on a banana, draw it 49. Draw your art teacher 50. Make a drawing that says something about the environment 51. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you see 52. Look out your bedroom window, draw what you would like to see 53. Change the size relationship (scale) of the insect and something else (i.e. building, ships, cars) 54. Draw a portrait of your best friend as an insect 55. Draw a self-portrait of you as a beautiful insect 56. Draw a family insect portrait 57. Cut out a photo into small pieces; rearrange the photo in some other order, draw it

58. Draw the concept of the uses of a chair (sitting) without the chair 59. Draw an aerial view of your back yard 60. Make a portrait of yourself as you see yourself in twenty years