ART CLASSES:
Art 1/2
Art 3/4
Advanced Art
AP Studio Art
Ceramics
Hello Future and Present Art Students:
This site will be used from May, 2008, through the next school year, as a place to post information to all of my students, namely AP Studio Art.
MICHIGAN Visual ARTS Education Content Standards and Benchmarks
SECONDARY LEVEL
PERFORMING
Content Standard #1: All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.
A. Apply materials, techniques, media, technology, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence,
and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.
B. Intentionally use art materials and tools effectively to communicate ideas.
C. Apply organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.
D. Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.
CREATING
Content Standard # 2: All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.
A. Apply materials, techniques and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that
personal intentions are carried out in artworks.
B. Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts
problems.
C. Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their
artwork and in the work of others.
D. Apply and adapt subjects, symbols, and creative ideas in artworks and use the skills gained to
solve problems in daily life.
E. Demonstrate an improved ability to integrate structures, characteristics and principles to
accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes in art.
F. Create media productions that demonstrate knowledge, contexts, values, and aesthetics.
ANALYZING IN CONTEXT
Content Standard #3: All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.
A. Analyze the effectiveness of selections in communicating ideas and reflect upon the effectiveness
of choices.
B. Identify intentions of artists, explore the implication of various purposes, and justify analysis of
purposes in particular works.
C. Describe how expressive features and organizational principles cause responses.
D. Reflect upon the characteristics and assess the merits of one’s personal artwork.
E. Reflect and analyze the personal experiences that influence the development of personal artwork.
ARTS IN CONTEXT
Content Standard #4: All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical,
social and cultural contexts.
A. Reflect on how the subjects, ideas, and symbols of artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally,
and functionally, with respect to history and culture.
B. Describe the functions and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures,
times, and places.
C. Analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture,
justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using conclusions to inform personal meaning in
artwork.
CONNECTING TO OTHER ARTS, OTHER DISCIPLINES, AND LIFE
Content Standard #5: All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts,
between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.
A. Speculate and analyze how future technologies may impact art in everyday life.
B. Describe the characteristics of a variety of visual arts careers.
C. Compare the materials, technologies, techniques, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts
disciplines as they are used in creating and types of analysis.
D. Compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or
themes in the humanities or sciences.
WHAT THE SKETCHBOOK MEANS IN THE VISUAL ARTS CLASS
Students taking Art1and Art2 will be required to keep this type of sketchbook. The Sketchbook is a tool to become a better artist, to become more creative, to explore ideas and to find enjoyment in the visual arts.
It is meant to hold your drawings from direct observation, imagination, collage, and experimentations with materials. Work in it everyday. It keeps you well-practiced as an artist to draw every day. Although I will assign you specific drawings to do for each due date, you may also use this book for “free-drawing”, to draw what you feel like drawing or creating, and I will award you extra points for taking the time to invest in them.
WHAT DOES NOT GO IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK
Profanity of any kind. If you feel that only an expletive will best express your thoughts or ideas, just be creative and think of something else to use instead (in the comics, they use symbols like #,@,!,** to get their point across).
COPY WORK
It can be somewhat valuable to “copy” another artist’s work in order for you to learn their style.
However, once you have figured out how they have mastered their mark-making to create their character or any kind of artwork, it is up to you to move on and develop your own style. It is not valuable or ethical to copy other artists’ artwork that has been their unique creation. Therefore, please do not fill your sketchbook with copy work of comic characters, animee, company logos, etc. In the corporate world, it is called Plagiarism when one takes anothers’ artwork or literary
work and presents it as his or her own.
THE PURPOSE OF THE SKETCHBOOK IS:
• Record the process of your art making.
• Use for sketching and planning assignments.
• Use to experiment with media.
• Write about your feelings and ideas.
• Connect your concepts and images.
• Use as a research tool.
• Use to express your feelings.
• Use to keep samples of artists' work and your responses.
• Use when you've got a great idea.
• Use when you haven't got any ideas.
• Use when you are bored.
• Use when you are afraid to “ruin” your real work.
• Use when you are afraid to try something new.
• Use when you want to try something new.
• Use when you are afraid to make a mess.
• Use to explain your philosophy of life.
• Use to explain your personal politics.
• Use beyond any suggestion given above!
ASSESSMENT
You will be graded on assignments, prep sketches, thumbnails, in-class notes and reflections. You will be graded on COMPLETION of assignments in your sketchbooks, not how well you have drawn in it.
Rubrics (maximum of 50 Points)
RUBRIC:
A = Completion of all assignments, extra drawings, sketches, ideas,
inventions, clippings, poems, etc. It is obvious time is well spent in
the sketchbook.
B = Completion of all assignments. Created only as required.
C = Failure to fully complete assignments. No evidence of extra-time or
thought.
D = Some assignments missing. Carelessness, little creativity or thought
involved.
E = Most assignments missing. No effort involved. No name on cover,
not turned in, no work completed.
Sketchbooks turned in late will be marked 5 points off for every day late,
excluding excused absences. Extra Credit pages worth 2 points each may
be turned in each quarter for a maximum of 20 points.
DUE DATES for 2008-2009
Sketchbooks are due at the beginning of class on each due date.
1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter
Wed. Sept.17 Wed. Nov.19 Wed. Jan.28 Tues. April 22
Wed. Oct.8 Wed. Dec. 10 Wed. Feb. 18 Wed. May 13
Wed. Oct.29 Wed. Jan. 7 Wed. Mar. 11 Wed. June 3
The table below shows the 5 assignments that are due on each due date. Draw in pencil (black and white) unless other wise specified.
Wed. Sept. 19 Your self
Portrait-
pencil Your posed
Hand A can of pop An apple or
Orange Your name
In a colorful
design
Wed. Oct. 10 A single
Flower with
All its leaves Abstact of a
Dead tree
Using LINE:
Exaggerate
Bark texture An open
Book in front
Of you A set of keys
And a couple
Other items
From your
Pocket or
purse Favorite
Food with the
Wrapper
Partially
removed
Wed. Oct. 31 A grouping
Of seashells A close up
Set of 3
Pieces of
popcorn Repetition of
Line, use
Found
objects
A portrait of
A chair from
Your house Trick-or-
Treaters at
Your door!!
Wed. Nov.21 Torn paper
And masking
Tape drawing A hallway in your house Your shoes
Off your feet Design using
Actual
texture Copy a fabric
Design with
Rhythm
Wed. Dec. 12 A wet drawing
Using your
Coffee or
Soda. A design-
Geometric
Vs. organic
shapes Gestural
Line Mutual
Tension Closer and
Farther
Wed. Jan. 2 Your new
Self portrait
color A pile of
Dishes in
The sink A close up
Of a
Cluttered
area Overlapping
Shapes-
Show space! From shape
To Form
Wed. Jan.30 Your hand
Holding an
object Your bare
foot Relativity of
Hot and
Cold Light and
Shadow Expressive
Line
Wed. Feb. 20 Interlocking
Shapes Outer limits
Of values-
Near whites
And near
blacks Advancing
And receding
colors Atmospheric
Perspective Color
schemes
Wed. Mar. 12 Overlapping
Shapes Tension Plane
structure Optical
Transparenc-
ies Single hue
With one
Color
accent
Tues. April 22 Built up
Media Rubbings
And Transfer Erasers Vibrating
color Expressive
Mark-making
Wed. May 14 Losing edges
With color Suggestions
Of
continuity Modular
construction Abutting
Shapes Figure-
Ground
reversals
Wed. June 4 Your self-
Portrait-
collage Your hand-
Posed-
color A can of pop An apple or
Orange-
Detail !! Your name
In a colorful
design
DUE DATES for 2008-2009
Sketchbooks are due at the beginning of class on each due date.
1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter
Wed. Sept. 17 Wed. Nov.19 Wed. Jan.28 Tues. April 22
Wed. Oct. 8 Wed. Dec. 10 Wed. Feb. 18 Wed. May 13
Wed. Oct. 29 Wed. Jan. 7 Wed. Mar. 11 Wed. June 3
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