3 Week Schedule/Sept-Oct – subject to modifications Art 3 H/AP Studio Art ~ Howard High Art Dept.

Sketchbook assignments are your response to the given word or phrase. Media choice is up to you. Consider your pages’ composition carefully – please do not scribble on a page and say, “Well,
this was my response to the work ‘moody.’” 1 assignments are given each week for those taking the class for 1 credit; 2 are given to those who are taking the course for 2 credits. Each entry
is 15 points – 5p for completion, 5p for experimentation, 5p for craftsmanship. Collection times are posted below. Additional assignments are on the calendar.
Week 3 Monday 9/13 Tuesday 9/14 Wednesday 9/15 Thursday 9/16 Friday 9/17
Sketchbook BUSINESS MEETING!! VOTING DAY OIL PAINTING DEMO POWER PAINTING WITH POWER PAINTING
assignments. NO SCHOOL OILS! Simple still lives. WITH OILS! Cont’d
1 cred peeps: Have binder in AND TECHNIQUES
CHOOSE 1 TODAY; setting up a FLICKR ACCOUNTS
2 cred peeps: CLASS today. proper palette
DO BOTH We will go over the syllabus,
LAST DAY MUST BE SET UP BY
TODAY! Try posting a
BRING A GLASS
1. Complete a expectations, procedures LARGE pic of your large
page (any and policies, view online JAR TO CLASS portrait.
subject, any portfolios, set up Flickr PORTRAIT WILL
media) in your accounts. TOMORROW
SB that somehow BE ACCEPTED
WITH A LID!!!
includes a POST
IT note.
You will receive your first
HOME ASSIGNMENT
FOR CREDIT.
TODAY (The Observed
2. Draw your Figure) due October 14th ARTFUL READING OPEN STUDIO until 5pm
dinner – before Art and Fear ch. 1-4 and A221, A219
or after
questions given today. Back to School Night.

2c – Experiment with oils

Week 4 Monday 9/20 Tuesday 9/21 Wednesday 9/22 Thursday 9/23 Friday 9/24
Sketchbook Reflections:
assign. Observe a still life made Reflections STUDIO Reflections STUDIO Reflections STUDIO Reflections STUDIO
1.Write a letter Composition, OPEN STUDIO until 5pm
up of reflective objects
to someone you Contrast, A221, A219
admire – what
and apply oil painting Craftsmanship
would you say? techniques. This is a study Choose the most successful
Write on a in LIGHT and a chance to thrumbnail, prep, painting
prepared/collage master oil painting surface, experiment with
d page. techniques. lighting situations.
Artist PPT.
2. Find an photo. What’s the color of a
Glue it in your
Create thumbnails. reflection?
SB and alter it 2c – Create a B/W drawing
by drawing and from the reflective still
painting over life using charcoal showing
it/around it. the illusion of 3D form,
light, and contrast.
Week 5 Monday 9/27 Tuesday 9/28 Wednesday 9/29 Thursday 10/30 10/1
Sketchbook
assign: Reflections STUDIO LAST DAY TO
Reflections STUDIO Reflections STUDIO Reflections STUDIO
1. unusual light QUICK informal hallway WORK ON IN
Art and Fear questions critique P6 Students –painting studio CLASS – FINAL
2. Make a list of due today – brief -Suggestions? Praises! CRITIQUE ON
20
discussion. OPEN STUDIO until 5pm
MONDAY
things/people/ A221, A219
ideas you are
inspired by. Reflections
Write this on a
prepared/collage
STUDIO
d surface.

**What’s a prepared surface?** (2 SB assignments require this this month)

- A prepared surface is one that has been watercolored on, collaged on, scribbled on, drawn on, etc. etc. Basically, it’s a NON-white surface. Refer
to the “Avoiding White Page Syndrome” WS that was given to you over the summer

IMPORTANT DATES –
SEPT 16th – LAST DAY TO TURN IN LARGE PORTRAIT FOR CREDIT

DUE DATES:
SEPT. 27 – Art and Fear questions due
OCT 7th – SKETCHBOOK COLLECTION – 3 pages for 1c, 6 pages for 2c (Sketchbooks are collected the FIRST THURSDAY of
the month)
OCT 14th – The Observed Figure HOME ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY. Post on Flickr.

FIGURE FRIDAYS WILL BEGIN IN OCTOBER!!