AP ART SYLLABUS
Teacher: Mr. Horton
Contact Information: mhorton@stepinac.org
Available in the art room every day after school
Art Club is Tuesday’s/ Friday’s after school until 4:30-5:00pm
Video Game club is Wednesday/ Thursday until 5:00pm
Required Materials
To successfully complete this course, you will need:
1) To pay an art fee of $40 and an additional $83 AP fee to contribute toward various materials in the art room, including paper, rulers, pencils, paint, brushes, etc. The AP fee goes to the College Board and toward the portfolios and the grading of portfolios. More information regarding this can be found on the College Board web site. Each student will also receive his own supplies, consisting of drawing pencils and an eraser. These supplies are necessary to complete the projects in the class.
2) To bring one's art supplies to class.
COURSE SCHEDULE
First Year
1st Quarter
1) Still Life (basic still life)
-on Newsprint
2) Eye drawing
-Show the students how to draw a realistic eye (you show them how to draw one with them following then have them finish the other eye)
3) Pastel Landscape
- (needs to be twilight/ dusk dawn/ showing silhouette imagery)
4) Small to Large
-using a modified chuck close grid method of enlargement
2nd Quarter
1) Self Portrait (extreme color distortion)
-Chuck Close Grid Method
2) Tool/Weapon study
-on Newsprint/ shadowing is not needed
3) Pointillism
-draw a picture on a white piece of paper/ outline that picture with a thick black marker/ overlay that first sheet of white paper with a second clean sheet of white paper/ dot accordingly using markers
4) Rhythm and Pattern
-Using cut black construction paper, glue, and scissors have the students arrange a landscape on white paper. Introduce a single accent color to the black and white at a later time (the single accent cannot be too overwhelming/ explain to them how the extra color can really draw the viewer’s eye to sections of the picture)
3rd Quarter
1) Drapery Study
-use newsprint/ push dark tones
2) Negative Still Life
-a still life done on black paper/ light pencils will be used to draw the still life/ afterwards white color pencils will be used to go over the drawn lines giving the image a negative quality
3) Cropping
-examples of a cropped image would be putting the wheel chair or bike in the middle of the room and zooming in on a section of it.
4) Long Term Animal Study
4th Quarter
1) Black and White Surroundings
-draw an area of the school/ draw everything in the location in black and white on newsprint/ exteriors of the building can be used.
1) Color Surroundings
-Same as above except in color using white paper and either color pencils or pastels
COURSE SCHEDULE
Second Year
During the second year, the work produced will in large part be determined by the student, as he decides on an idea for his concentration and carries it out. Additionally, each student will evaluate the Breadth portion of his portfolio, comprised in large part from assignments completed in the first year and over the summer.
1) Students prepare a list of 3 possible focuses for their Concentrations, and include a description of how they could develop each idea.
2) Students select one of their ideas and work on their Concentration pieces, as many as four pieces due at the end of each quarter.
4) During the last quarter, students prepare their work for digital photography and spend time finishing or adding to their pieces if time allows.
Grading Policies:
Studio conduct/ participation, 30 percent
1) Good use of time
2) Effort towards projects
3) Use of materials
4) Portfolio development
Homework/ in class quiz work, 50 percent
1) Homework/ quiz assignments are graded out of 100 points. Usually these projects are done in class and count as homework grades
Mid Term/ Final, 20 percent
1) Both the mid term and final are portfolio reviews