2nd Nine Weeks:
What you need to know!

During this nine weeks, you will begin to diverge in your work...Each of you will begin to explore and work in a direction that suits your concentration theme. It is up to you to make it happen!

Beyond this point, there is NEVER a time when you have "nothing to do"!
This is a very personal challenge, to do your very best, and to create something that is absolutely new! For many of you, this is the first time in your educational lives when you have been asked to do anything beyond repeating the information taught, back to the teacher! This time, YOU are in charge of your success or failure, because it has to come from you! I can guide, direct, advise ...but you have to take ownership, and make it happen!
In this respect, it is much more like college, than high school.

Learn from the masters. LOOK at art. Constantly.
Educate your vision! You can feed your creativity, by using your eyes. Look at art. Use the website to start. Use the books in the room. Go to the library and pull an art book and just look. Look at shapes, colors, the relationship of shapes. Keep your concentration in mind. If you see something that jogs your mind, and gives you an idea, jot it down. As you go thru your day, and you see a great design idea, think to yourself, "How can I make this same idea "work" using my concentration theme"? You must always be in pursuit of a new idea, a new twist, an innovation design idea, or an "ah ha!" experience that will take your concentration from "ho hum" to "Wow"!

Do it again, and again and again...until it's right!
There's no such thing as "I did my work!". If it doesn't sing, if it doesn't dance, if it doesn't make people say "Wow!"....DO IT AGAIN! Don't settle for just "doing" the assignments. You need to work, and rework you're ideas. Don't settle for the first thing you do...most artist re-do their work many, many times before they decide it is "finished"! (Get ready! I'm going to be saying "Do it again" frequently! Beat me to it!)

 

ASSIGNMENTS, 1st 4 weeks:
This list may be modified as we go along!

1. HOMEWORK Assignment: By Monday of each week (starting Monday, Nov. 2), bring in a minimum of 15 new photographs. The photos must pertain to your portfolio, and must be taken within the last two weeks. Upload them into iphoto, as an "Event". This will date your upload. NO PHONE PHOTOS. Photos must be of high quality, at least 4 pixels, minimum. As always, they MUST be photographs you took yourself, or by members of your family, or you otherwise "own" them and can prove it. I will be checking them periodically. If I don't "check" them this week, don't worry. I'll get around to it next week, and my expectation (if you're looking for A's and B's) is that you will have loaded the photos as required. Late photos receive no credit.Keep in mind that most photographers take hundreds of photos, and out of that number, if they are lucky ONE is a winner. Take lots of photos. Cull out the best. Don't settle for "just doing it" to be doing it. Points will be based upon how well the photos relate to your concentration, as well as technical issues such as point of view, focus, lighting, originality, thoughtfulness, and experimentation. 50 points weekly

2. SOURCE FOLDER: Create a folder for your photographic sources.. These are items that you have used in any of your works that will be submitted to the college board. This includes any items that you ued from the internet, as sources to draw from. Be sure that your source folder is complete, and up to date, as of tomorrow. Make this your first mission! This includes work from the first nine weeks. Find those photo sources, and place them in the folder, which MUST be in your DOCUMENTS folder, highlighted red. Remember that any one, or all of your works, can be challenged or questioned by the AP board.You are prohibited from using ANY photos, or ANY ideas that are not your own. For your sake, and the sake of ERHS, don't cheat. Your work should be of the highest integrity and above reproach! Remember that you, your parents and your teacher all have to sign off, saying that to the best of their knowledge, all the work sent is strictly your own. Make sure it's the truth! It's all about integrity and honesty! Your source folder will be checked, without prior notice.

3. The Book Jacket Project. Design and create an original book jacket, with yourself (using a pen name) as the author. The idea, name and design must be original and suitable for submission in your portfolio. Project requirements will be discussed in class.

4. Text Collage artwork: Create an artwork for your Concentration from your Text collage. Be creative! Think outside the box!

5. LINE JOURNAL artwork: Create a minimum of one Concentration section artwork from one of your Line journals. This project will be specifically geared to address the Principles of Art & Design. In particular, patterns and repeats. Demonstration to come.

6. Complete at least two ADDITIONAL works for your Concentration section, using NEW photos or other resources.