Due:
One week

Project Description:
Using chalk and charcoal on toned charcoal/pastel paper, draw a still life comprised of glass objects. You will use natural light (from the windows).

Materials:

• Sketchbook
• Pencil (HB or 2B) for initial drawing
• 18 x 24" toned charcoal/pastel paper
• easel or mini-easel
• chalk
• chalk pencil / white charcoal pencil
• charcoal
• eraser
• viewfinder
• glass objects

Steps:

1. Set up still life of glass objects.
2. In your sketchbook, draw thumbnail sketches to establish composition.
3. On 18 x 24" paper, establish placement and proportion, referring to best thumbnail for general arrangement on the page.
4. Using the tone of the paper as one of your middle tones, render higher values using chalk.
5. Render darkest values with charcoal.

Graded on:

• Strength of composition
• Accuracy of shapes, placement, proportion, direction of lines, and tonal values.
• Convincing three-dimensionality/form
• Overall technical quality / mark-making - Refinement

Due: Monday, November 18

Create a landscape with unusual materials. That is, use something other than simply pencil or paint. Experiment with materials.

You should start from direct observation of the world immediately around you, but it may change as you work.
It must show a sense of depth, with foreground, middle-ground, and background. 
Consider atmospheric perspective.
It must be an incredible composition; well-designed.
Bring this to a quality that it can be put in both your college applications and your AP exam portfolio.

Before beginning, research possibilities.

AT LEAST 11 x 14" (sketchbook size)
Mixed media

Grading:
Studio Habits of Mind Rubric

Due:
One week: Monday, November 18

There are two parts to this week's homework:

Assignment 1: Value Scale and Sphere (Graphite/Pencil)
First, using the full range of pencils in your pencil set, complete this value scale worksheet (Download and print the linked file.).

Assignment 2: Geometric Solids
A value drawing of any subject (either from observation or imagination) reduced to geometric solids. Establish a consistent light source and indicate light's effect on form.

Resources to help you draw the forms are at the bottom of this page and in this Google Drive folder.

Directions:
In composing your subject or scene, design the entire picture plane. Combine the following geometric forms to represent the subject: cube, rectangular solid, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, and cone. You may use any form more than once (In fact, you may have to), but you must use them all. Identify the light source (which should probably be outside the bounds of the picture plane) and the direction and intensity of that light. Indicate how that light source affects the forms in this scene. Include highlights, shadow edges, reflected light, and cast shadows where necessary. The geometric forms must be convincingly real both in their accuracy of line (i.e. linear perspective) and in their chiaroscuro (lights and darks).

Medium:
Graphite (Use 2B, 4B, and 6B pencils, or Ebony pencil)

Objectives:
1.   Improve realistic rendering of form
2. Improve realistic rendering of three-dimensional structure through linear perspective.

Grading Criteria

• Realism of 3D form and structure (light's effect on form)
• Composition (Design of the page)
• Depth

Self-critique:
As you draw, ask yourself if you are doing the following (You should be!):

• Fill the page.
• Consider the entire page as a composition.
• Consider the aesthetic relationships between the positive and negative shapes.
• Get the lines and shapes right. On the round forms, get the ellipses right. Make the geometric forms stand straight and strong. (They must not look like they’re deflating.)
• Indicate how the forms will affect their neighboring forms re: shadows.
• Indicate that some forms are different local values than others, and will therefore appear lighter or darker in general.

Due: Thursday, November 14

Using a photocopy of a full-page "feather" shape that you can get it in the Art Fellows classroom, create an artistic design that incorporates writing about what you are thankful for. The lettering should be artistic and part of the overall design (Think of this as a finished, high-quality artwork, though, not just writing.).

Materials: Any (your choice)
Show off your skills.

These designs will be part of a display in the main lobby.

(This is due the day you get back to class after the long weekend.)

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Context (From the BHS Mental Health Team):

“The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia, which means grace, graciousness, or gratefulness (depending on the context). In some ways gratitude encompasses all of these meanings. Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, whether tangible or intangible. With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives. In the process, people usually recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside themselves. As a result, gratitude also helps people connect to something larger than themselves as individuals — whether to other people, nature, or a higher power.
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In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.
People feel and express gratitude in multiple ways. They can apply it to the past (retrieving positive memories and being thankful for elements of childhood or past blessings), the present (not taking good fortune for granted as it comes), and the future (maintaining a hopeful and optimistic attitude). Regardless of the inherent or current level of someone's gratitude, it's a quality that individuals can successfully cultivate further. (Harvard Health Publishing, Healthbeat 2019).”

We are asking you to take some time to think about something you are grateful for. Please write a sentence or word that expresses what you are grateful for on the feathers (Art students: then design an artwork that incorporates those words.). These feathers will be displayed in the main hallway. You do not need to write you name on the feathers. Thank you for taking time to think about gratitude and participate in our gratitude exercise.