Step 1 Read the AP Studio 2D Portfolio and Drawing Portfolio course overviews on the college board website and decide which portfolio you want to create. Read the scoring rubric and view the 2013 Portfolio artwork submitted and the Scoring Rationales for each section. Decide which portfolio your feel most comfortable submitting. Then go to guidance and register for that course.
Step 2 Download Application and Prepare 5 Works to get a scholarship to attend the Summer Art Institute
Step 3 Continue working in your Art JournalsAP SketchbooksYou are expected to maintain a 9 x 12 or 11 x 14” sketchbook/journal throughout the course, in which you will include your visual ideas, notes, photos (for reference, inspiration, etc.), doodles, plans, short assignments, quick sketches, experiments with various techniques, and many of your homework assignments. You are expected to use it regularly. For the fullest benefit, it should be with you at all times.
Example of a college level sketchbook is below |
Research Journal can be separate or a part of your Sketchbook. It is extremely critical, so do it with fidelity.
Create Mixed Media Digital Art2D Design Portfolios require you to explore alternative drawing, painting and collage techniques. You will create several works using mixed media. Start with some drawings you have already made. Scan them into computer. Upload them into photo shop and merge them into a photograph.
Now manipulate them in a separate layer using the filter tool. add another layer and manipulate the images further using various drawing tools. |
AP Breadth Class Assignments
Participate in Class and Online Critiques
Critiques of in-class projects and homework are an important and regular part of the course. Usually weekly, mid-process on longer projects and certainly after every project, you will have the opportunity to analyze and discuss your own artwork and the work of your peers during oral group critiques. Occasionally, you will be asked to write about your work or the work of your peers. In addition, Ms. Purvis will discuss your work with you and provide critique of your work at least every few days of your project work. Upon request, you may receive further individualized instruction and assessment during Advisory Period or After School.
Critiques of in-class projects and homework are an important and regular part of the course. Usually weekly, mid-process on longer projects and certainly after every project, you will have the opportunity to analyze and discuss your own artwork and the work of your peers during oral group critiques. Occasionally, you will be asked to write about your work or the work of your peers. In addition, Ms. Purvis will discuss your work with you and provide critique of your work at least every few days of your project work. Upon request, you may receive further individualized instruction and assessment during Advisory Period or After School.
Do You Fall-Winter-Spring and Summer Assignments
All assignments can be done in any medium, technique and style you desire but should be 2-Dimensional work (flat) not 3-Dimensional (sculpture) work in any media that is 18”x 24” or smaller and should be entirely original (do not use other people’s pictures, characters, or content in any way).
1. Self Portrait (without showing your face)- The important thing here is to reveal something about yourself without using your face. In fact, you need not use any part of your body at all in this assignment. Instead, you are challenged to portray who you are in some alternative way. What image can you create or invent that would tell us something about you - your personality, your interests, your character, your inclinations, your talents, your passions, your obsessions, your desires, your needs, your likes and dislikes, your essence?
2. Grandiloquent– Read the definition below and create a work that has a theme of the term in some way. (adjective using loft or pompous words; marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases; bombastic."poets in the 19th century tended to write poetry filled with grandiloquent phrases")
3. Decay- Create a work that incorperates the theme of decay in some way in any media. The theme is open to your own interpretation.
4. Chronicle- Take a part of your life (anything from a single 24 hour day to a week of summer is great to a year of your life) and make an art piece representing that period of time. You can incorporate text or leave it abstract but be creative and do not simply document, make it creative.
5. Inspiration- Take a look at this list of 100 Artists from Art 21, choose any artist and create a piece responding to (not copying or in their style) their work. The list includes everyone from artist who use traditional media such as: Cindy Sherman and Richard Serra to artist like: Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, and Laurie Anderson who do performance pieces. Video clips are available for each artist on the website so do a bit of research, find something in one of the artists that you connect to and create a piece on it.
1. Self Portrait (without showing your face)- The important thing here is to reveal something about yourself without using your face. In fact, you need not use any part of your body at all in this assignment. Instead, you are challenged to portray who you are in some alternative way. What image can you create or invent that would tell us something about you - your personality, your interests, your character, your inclinations, your talents, your passions, your obsessions, your desires, your needs, your likes and dislikes, your essence?
2. Grandiloquent– Read the definition below and create a work that has a theme of the term in some way. (adjective using loft or pompous words; marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases; bombastic."poets in the 19th century tended to write poetry filled with grandiloquent phrases")
3. Decay- Create a work that incorperates the theme of decay in some way in any media. The theme is open to your own interpretation.
4. Chronicle- Take a part of your life (anything from a single 24 hour day to a week of summer is great to a year of your life) and make an art piece representing that period of time. You can incorporate text or leave it abstract but be creative and do not simply document, make it creative.
5. Inspiration- Take a look at this list of 100 Artists from Art 21, choose any artist and create a piece responding to (not copying or in their style) their work. The list includes everyone from artist who use traditional media such as: Cindy Sherman and Richard Serra to artist like: Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, and Laurie Anderson who do performance pieces. Video clips are available for each artist on the website so do a bit of research, find something in one of the artists that you connect to and create a piece on it.