Basic Art: Sketchbook 1, Due Friday Feb. 21st

Directions: Your first assignment is about getting over the fear of a blank book and allowing for freedom and creativity. You will simply be covering pages with backgrounds and borders that will be drawn over top of in future assignments. Each page can now be “used” and hopefully the white page syndrome of the sketchbook will fall by the wayside. Remember you are not creating finished works, but creating interesting surfaces or borders to draw onto later.

Complete 8 pages, here are SOME options you could explore: REMEMBER THESE ARE SIMPLY SUGGESTIONS, YOU CAN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN TECHNIQUES TOO.

You could draw a border around a page that is made up of doodles with pencil or pen-Put your drawing tool on a page -Close your eyes and draw for 30 seconds - Create a two color wash on the page.(wash=watered down paint, or watercolor) - Collage text on the page - Scribble on the page with pencil; blend with a paper towel to create a value - Create a one color wash on the page - Cut squares in the page - Draw a childlike drawing on the page and paint over it - Create a repetitive pattern on the page using a geometric shape - Find a simple object and cover the page with simple contour drawings of it - Using muted colors paint a page - Create a texture on the page with paint by lifting paint with a towel - Create a negative space painting with a wash - Cover the page with writing about your first day and summer - Collage random pieces on the page - Cut strips of colored paper and glue to the surface - Doodle on the page with a pen - Trade books and have another student treat the surface of a page - Tear a page out and re-collage onto another page - Find a leaf outside - Represent the leaf in some way on the page.

Basic Art: Sketchbook 2, Due Friday Feb. 28th

CHOOSE 4 PROMPTS FROM THE LIST BELOW AND DRAW, PAINT OR COLLAGE THE PROMPTS ON 4 PAGES IN YOUR BOOK.

Draw the contents of your desk drawer

Just before your room is cleaned, draw it

Inside of your refrigerator

Inside your garage

Draw your dad’s work table

Before the dishes are washed, draw them

a pile of laundry waiting to get washed

yourself in a mirror

your brother/sister doing an activity, such as playing video games

your friend, or an enemy

yourself your toenails

your hand holding an object that is important to you.

your bird, cat, dog, fish, snake, leopard, lobster doing something strange

what is in the rear-view mirror of your car

Illustrate a famous saying/quotation

Create your own storyboard/ comic strip.

Draw your favorite cartoon character with background.

Create a new cover for the book you are now reading

Design a house that you would like to live in

Write a large number in the middle of the page. Turn it into a person/animal.

Draw a picture. Cut your picture into squares. Glue the squares in a new design.

Basic Art: Sketchbook 3, March 6th

Sketchb 1: Scissor Metamorphosis: Use a pair of scissors as a beginning point, creatively transform the scissors into something else- a monster, a robot, a machine, a vehicle, an animal. Change its scale & it purpose. Try to draw it with full shading.

Sketch 2: Student Choice: Choose your own subject and complete a drawing using skills & techniques learned in class.

Sketch 3: Preposterous Cross-links: Choose 2 things from this list and combine them together into one image/creature/thing:

Turtle Octopus Snake Bird Bee Rat Fish Cat

Pencil Saw Hammer Pliers ScissorsTire Clock Drum

Sketch 4: : Futuristic Mutation: Take an everyday object and use your imagination to redesign it with a futuristic look.

Basic Art: Sketchbook 4, Friday March 13th

Sketch 1: Small world: What if you were the size of an ant, draw the view you would see if you were in a forest looking at ground level looking up. You can have it look cartoon-like, add fantasy creatures or make it realistic

Sketch 2: Shoe Draw one of your shoes from your closet. Or a shoe that you think is very interesting (ballet, boot, etc.)

Sketch 3: 2D & 3D Arrows: Create a full page composition using a combination of 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional arrows. Use overlapping to break up the spaces into interesting positive and negative shapes. Possible Medium: Outline with sharpie and fill the shapes with markers

Sketch 4: Pet Portrait: Draw a picture of your pet or the pet you would LOVE to have. Possible Medium: Colored Pencils

Basic Art: Sketchbook 5, Friday March 20th

Sketch 1: Skateboard Deck Designs: create TWO designs for the bottom of a skateboard. You can use realistic, abstract or non-objective designs. Keep it CLEAN & appropriate. Possible Medium: Sharpies & Markers

Sketch 2: Hand Value Study: Draw your hand in 2 different appropriate positions (both on the same page). Render with full shading. Possible Medium: drawing pencils

Sketch 3: Eye Study: Find 4 different eyes in magazines. Cut them out & glue them to your sketchbook page. Draw the eyes underneath the picture & render with a FULL range of shading. Possible Medium: pencils or colored pencils

Sketch 4: Realistic VS Abstract: Choose one object to draw (an interesting one! NOT simple!) Divide you sketchbook page in half with a pencil line. Label at the top of one side “Realistic” & on the other side label “Abstract.” Under the Realistic side, use a pencil to draw the object as realistically as you possibly can. On the Abstract side, distort your object so that it is still somewhat recognizable-use abstracted colors to color it. Possible Medium: Colored Pencils

Basic Art: Sketchbook 6, Friday March 27th

CHOOSE 4 PROMPTS FROM THE LIST BELOW AND DRAW, PAINT OR COLLAGE THE PROMPTS ON 4 PAGES IN YOUR BOOK.

a dead bird in a beautiful landscape

a flower growing next to a turned over garbage can

a piece of cake and make it look delicious

eggs in the shell, scrambled, then over easy

one popcorn kernel popping, draw an opened bag of popcorn

a raw steak, steak bones

moving water, still water

a clear glass full of ice cubes

an object when looking through a tube or a microscope

an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a difference)

something floating, like a boat or a beach ball

a dark object in a light environment

Fill in the hole, partially cover up the object, draw it emerging from the ground.

Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd

Find a quiet place, draw the quiet

Find a noisy place, draw noise

On the school bus, draw your friends on the way to school, draw your friends on the way home Is there a difference?

Shine a light through an open structure such as a woven basket, draw the cast shadow

an object that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds

Basic Art: Sketchbook 7, Friday April 3rd

This week I'd like to for you just draw what you like, what you enjoy, what interests you. Use whatever materials are of interest, whatever techniques. DRAW ON FOUR PAGES.

Basic Art: Sketchbook 8, Friday April 10th

NO OFFICIAL ASSIGNMENT DUE THIS WEEK! INSTEAD USE THE TIME FOR A REDEMPTION SKETCHBOOK, YOU CAN MAKE UP ONE MISSED ASSIGNMENT TO SHOW ME BY FRIDAY.

Basic Art: Sketchbook 9, Friday April 24th

Create FOUR Drawings/Paintings/Collages of images from Art History. Choose four artists from the list below, look them up on Google Images and copy one of the images. Please label your pictures.

Leonardo da Vinci - Michelangelo - Johannes Vermeer - Paul Cézanne - Mary Cassat - Goya - Georgia O’Keeffe -

Andy Warhol - Roy Lichtenstein - Jasper Johns - Wayne Thiebaud - Claude Monet - Edgar Degas - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Basic Art: Sketchbook 10, Friday May 1st

Sketch 1: Crushed Soda Can: Draw a crushed soda can, include details like the logo. Render with full shading. Possible Medium: drawing pencils

Sketch 2: Bird’s Eye Point of View: Draw your choice of subject matter from a bird’s eye point of view. From above looking down at the subject. Add shading to indicate highlights & shadows. Possible Medium: drawing pencil

Sketch 3: Paper Airplane: Fold a paper airplane, place it in front of you & draw from direct observation as accurately as you can. ADD FULL SHADING Possible Meddium: drawing pencil

Sketch 4: Creative Hand Drawing: Trace you hand -yes Trace your hand on your page. Use your imagination to turn you hand into something different. Add details-make it interesting! Possible Medium: colored pencil

Basic Art: Sketchbook 11, Friday May 8th

Sketch 1: Visual Puns: Illustrate 2two-word phrase using drawings of objects related to their meanings. Example: hot dog, hair brush, two face, fish face, bone head Possible Medium: colored pencil

Sketch 2: Botanical Study: Find a flower or plant from nature. Study it carefully before drawing. Draw the whole plant on 2/3rds of the page. Select 3 areas to “magnify” & draw smaller, partial up-close drawings of those 3 areas including all the details. ADD FULL SHADING Possible Medium: watercolor, watercolor pencil, or drawing pencils

Sketch 3: Morphing Transformation: Choose 2 two objects (one animal & one man made) to slowly morph into each other. You should try to have 6 drawings illustrating the transformation of one object into the other. ADD FULL SHADING Possible Medium: drawing pencils

Sketchbook4: Mixed Media Experiments: Have fun experimenting with mixed media techniques. Do the experimenting on other paper, then cut out the different experiments & glue them in your sketchbook. Label each experiment with a brief description of how you created it. Try at least 4 of these different experiments. Use up a minimum of 2 pages in your sketchbook. Possible Medium: various art supplies

Basic Art: Sketchbook 12, Friday May 15th

CREATE FOUR PAGES OF DESIGNS, PATTERNS, REPETITIONS AND/OR ZEN TANGLES OVER TOP OF FOUR PREVIOUS SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENTS. Possible Medium: pen, sharpie or various art supplies

Basic Art: Sketchbook 13, Friday May 22nd

FAN ART CHALLENGE - Choose FOUR fan character art prompts from the list and make FOUR sketches/drawings. Color optional.

"Fan Art" as defined by Urban Dictionary: Art of any form, usually electronic or drawn free hand, that uses characters or settings from a popular television show, novel, cartoon, anime, or movie as the subject

1. A character you’ve always wanted to draw

2. A villainous character

3. A nonhuman character

4. A character becoming very, very angry

5. Characters playing a video game

6. A character with an animal

7. Two characters from opposite sides (of a civil war, a ship war, an intergalactic war)

8. A character as a superhero

9. A big tough character posing for a selfie.

10. A character as a pretty princess

11. Characters all done up for Halloween!

12. An animated/comics character in a realistic style

13. A real character in a cartoonish style

14. A character with a deep love of technology/machines

15. Characters dancing

16. Characters working together.

17. A blossoming, cross-fandom romance - in an AU

18. Multi-Fandom Party!

Basic Art: Sketchbook 14, Friday May 29th

WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? LOOK UP THE SYMBOL AND IMAGE THAT GOES WITH YOUR SIGN AND SKETCH IT. DO THE SAME FOR YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. YOU COULD ALSO LOOK UP THE DESCRIPTIONS AND SKETCH THOSE. MAKE FOUR SKETCHES/DRAWING. .

AQUARIUS - JANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 18

PISCES - FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 20

ARIES - MARCH 21 - APRIL 19

TAURUS - APRIL 20 - MAY 20

GEMINI - MAY 21 - JUNE 20

CANCER - JUNE 21 - JULY 22

LEO - JULY 23 - AUGUST 22

VIRGO - AUGUST 23 - SEPTEMBER 22

LIBRA - SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 22

SCORPIO - OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 21

SAGITTARIUS - NOVEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 21

CAPRICORN - DECEMBER 22 - JANUARY 19

Basic Art: Sketchbook 15, Friday June 5th

FREEK DRAW WEEK! This week I'd like you to draw/paint/collage whatever you want. It could be what you like, what you enjoy, what interests you. It could be practicing a technique or just drawing something you think looks cool. Use whatever materials are of interest, whatever techniques. DRAW ON FOUR PAGES, IF you are out of blank pages then work on top of old pages.

Basic Art: Sketchbook 16, Friday June 12th

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 1, Due 9/23

Complete 8 pages, here are SOME options you could explore: REMEMBER THESE ARE SIMPLY SUGGESTIONS, YOU CAN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN TECHNIQUES TOO.

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 2, Due Friday 9/30

Sketch1: Complete a contour line drawing(outline) of any subject

Sketch 2: Complete a second contour line drawing(outline) of any subject

Sketch 3: Create a blind contour(don’t look at the paper), in which do not look at your paper or lift your pencil. Any subject

Sketch 4: Lines can be used to create patterns. Draw four identical boxes and fill each box with repeated lines that show different patterns.

Feel free to add color to any assignment!

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 3, Due Friday 10/7

Choose four of the prompts to inspire your FOUR sketches this week. Try to incorporate any drawing techniques we are currently working on in class.

The seasons Pairs

Paris Home is where...

All that glitters... The senses

Threads It's my nature

Take cover It's not easy being green
Color outside the lines Hot and cold

Lemon Yellow Forest Floor

Black and White & red all over sunset

Metallics Autumn

Food A Pet

Liquid Halloween

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 4, Due Monday 10/17

This week I would like you to research some artists. Choose FOUR artists from the list and research their work, sketch one of their pieces of art, write down the name and date it was created.

Da Vinci Rembrandt Michelangelo

Claude Monet Edgar Degas Pierre-Auguste Renoir Mary Cassat or Paul Cezanne orGeorgia O’Keefe

Andy Warhol- Roy Lichtenstein- Jasper Johns - Wayne Thiebaud

OrClaes Oldenburg

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 5, Due Friday 10/21

The Elements of art: Line, Shape, Space, Texture, Form, Color and Value

Fill four pages with drawing, painting and/or collaging. The images must include examples of each of the 7 elements of art. Please label the elements on your pages.

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 6, Due Friday 10/28

Page 1: Make 15-20 gesture drawings on one page, but only take one minute per drawing

Sketch 2: Set up a still life of 3 or more objects and draw them using shading and value. Try to draw them to scale and with the proportions correct.

Sketch 3: This time draw the same still life but from a different angle like from above or below. Also, try a new media or a new approach to the drawing. For example, try using contour lines.

Sketch 4: Practice shading a sphere, cone or Cube.

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 7, Due Friday 11/4

Make FOUR images in your sketchbook either a drawing, painting, writing OR collage. Each image should have something to do with the following themes.

Sketch 1 - Theme: THE ENVIRONMENT

Sketch 2 - Theme: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Sketch 3 - Theme of MUSIC.

Sketch 4 - Theme: ROAD TRIPS, TRAVEL AND ADVENTURES

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 8, Due Friday 11/11

FOUR DRAWINGS : You can draw, paint, OR collage anything you feel inspired to create! Have fun.

Drawing&Painting: Sketchbook Assignment 9, Due Friday 11/18

Choose four of the prompts to inspire your FOUR sketches this week. Try to incorporate any drawing techniques we are currently working on in class.

A Pattern Oops. Wrong Color?

Lonely…object Messiest vs. cleanest

A Contradiction Ballpoint pen only!

Items in my backpack Music to my ears

Normal Not Normal

Plugged in. Strange Portrait

Animal Patterns Rearview mirror of the car.

Draw yourself as an original superhero.

Make a drawing that looks sticky.

Draw a mysterious doorway or staircase.

Find a trash can. Draw its contents.

Copy a famous artist found online

Sketchbook Assignment 10, Due Friday 12/2

Sketch 1: Collage a color wheel design using scraps of paper found in my scrap bin, old magazines or any source of old paper. It must include REDs, ORANGEs, YELLOWs, GREENs, BLUEs, and PURPLEs

Sketch 2, 3 and 4: Choose three of the following prompts and make a sketch inspired by the prompt. Please try to incorporate color.

Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever seen , Draw junk food and the wrapper, Draw your favorite food, Create your own restaurant. Draw the restaurant or the inside or outside, Draw the ingredients or process of your favorite recipe, Draw salt and pepper shakers, Draw fresh fruit or vegetables, or something fresh from the oven, Draw a salad., Draw the oldest thing in your refrigerator., Make a drawing that is totally truthful. Make a drawing that lies all over the place. Make a drawing that is completely and utterly impossible. Story Illustration: Fix a story that you don’t like, or reflect/improve upon one you do. Let someone else choose your subject and tell you what to draw. Draw your greatest fear. Use song lyrics, quotes, or poetry to inspire a drawing. Find the three most useless objects you can and draw them. Draw an interesting form of transportation. Draw something for which you are thankful. Go somewhere new and draw what you see. Draw something that can’t be turned off. Draw something soothing. Draw something you think sounds or smells incredible. Draw something that needs fixing. Draw something you’ve always wanted. Draw something out of place.Draw something that should have been invented by now. Draw something you keep putting off, or something that causes you to procrastinate.Draw everything on a restaurant table.Draw your hand. Draw your friend’s hand. Draw a stranger’s hand. Draw a teacher teaching. Draw a teacher on their computer. Draw a teacher helping a student. Draw a classmate that doesn’t know you are drawing them. Draw a group of students in a class.

Sketchbook Assignment 11, Due Friday 12/9

THIS WEEK DRAW ALL OF THE FOLLOWING PROMPTS IN BETWEEN OR OVER TOP OF PREVIOUS SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENTS.

Sketch 1: Draw a regular geometric style pattern of shapes on a past assignment.

Sketch 2: Use letters and numbers to make a design BUT DO NOT try to make it say anything. It should be something inscrutable. Remember, make this over a previous homework or classwork assignment.

Sketch 3: Make a pattern based on something you would see in nature, think close up. Example: tree bark

Again, make this over a previous homework or classwork assignment

Sketch 4: Add on to another weeks drawing in some creative way. For example, draw an animal eating out of one of the previous vases/bowls you drew or.....

Sketchbook Assignment 12, Due Friday 12/16

Sketch 1:Sketch a winter landscape. Consider foreground, middleground and background in your composition.

Sketch 2: Sketch a tree that is specific to your favorite season.

Sketch 3: Sketch a landscape that takes place in summer. Think about adding clouds, sky, water and/or a horizon line. The location of this sketch can take place anywhere.

Sketch 4: Sketch an unrealistic landscape. Consider an imaginary place, perhaps from a book or film.

Sketchbook Assignment 13, Due Friday 1/6

Sketch 1: Find a face in a magazine. Cut it out, cut it in half and glue the half into your sketchbook. Now draw and shade the missing half of the face.

Sketch 2: Find another interesting picture in a magazine, cut it out and glue it in to your sketchbook. Now draw and add onto the photo in some creative way.

Sketch 3: Find a Word or a group of words in a magazine or old book, cut it out and paste it into your sketchbook. Make a drawing in and around the word and try to incorporate the word into a drawing composition.

Sketch 4: Repeat one of the previous criteria in sketch 1, 2 OR 3.

NO school Friday 1/13 and Monday 1/16 so NO sketchbook during this time

Sketchbook Assignment 15, Due Friday 1/20

Focus on The Principles of Design this week.

Sketch 1: Create a Free Draw that shows symmetrical balance. Consider the principles of compositional movement when sketching your design.

Sketch 2: Create a Free Draw that shows asymmetrical balance. Consider the principles of compositional movement when sketching your design.

Sketch 3: Create a Free Draw that incorporates and focuses on the Principle of Pattern and Rhythm. Consider trying an organic pattern with flowing irregular rhythm.

Sketch 4: Create a Free Draw that uses the Principle of Contrast to show an image with an Emphasis or a focal point.

Sketchbook Assignment 16, Due Friday 1/27

Focus on Portraiture this week.

Sketch1: An easy way to learn to draw the person is by drawing the figure from a back view. Drawing a figure from the back minimizes details, stresses shape and contour and eliminates the face. Try it, draw a person from behind. To make your composition interesting and exciting, emphasize an element or principle of design.

Sketch 2: Draw a person’s head and face using exaggeration to communicate emotion. Work from a live model if possible. First use a pencil to make a general drawing. Note the shapes and planes of the face and how they fit together. Then continue over the drawing with a darker media. Utilize strong contrast to greatly exaggerate the areas you want to emphasize.

Sketch 3: Draw someone from real life, attempt a realistic drawing.

Sketch 4: Sketch a famous actor, actress, musician, artist, politician, writer OR superhero.

Last Day of the Semester is Feb. 2nd so the final week of class will be a “Redemption Sketchbook” week. Those of you that want to make up an assignment from 2nd quarter, this is the week to do it. You can only make up one sketchbook assignment.