AP Breadth Alternatives/Substitutions

• Have fun, switch it up and swap it in for a weaker project!

Object Investigation

• Showing investigation of parts of an object and textures, details, points of view

• Direct observation• Use tools, things that can be taken apart, opened,

moved etc.• Alternative: TEXTURE- idea of knot, tangled, braid, rope

texture (Jennifer Wroblewski, Hugette Despaut May)• Form, Texture, mark making, advancing and receding

space though light and shadow, foreshortening • Charcoal, graphite, pastel or acrylic

Observational

Mark Making/Texture investigation

• Create marks through investigating the shapes and lines that create texture in a drawing.

Observational

http://www.jenniferwroblewski.com

Mark Making

http://blindbrookart.weebly.com/ap-art.html

Abstracted Landscape

• Observe and sketch a landscape of your choice• Reference color and forms and interpret in abstract

way• Simplifying to line, value, shape, texture, positive and

negative space• City scape/urban landscape as inspiration• Or by contrast- suburb• scott tulay, brian bishop, kim kadmus owens) • Show case mark making, surface texture, line, shape,

pos/neg space, subtractive methods of drawing

Observational

Brian Bishop: Figures and Landscape

Charcoal

Museum Investigation

• First trip: the MET• Project option #1: create a final drawing from

an observational sketch within the museum from prompts assigned at field trip (or personal reference photo)

• Project option #2: create an artwork in the style of an inspirational work

Picasso- Composition with a skull

Leger

Contrasted Forms

Ms. Livoti’s Inspiration in High School: Picasso

Picasso, The red armchair

Picasso, Head, 1972

Picasso, Woman with Pears

I wanted to express the essence of the figure- a lonely girl, consoling herself.I remember wanting to make her seated, but not wanting to care about perspective. Working in an abstract way helped me to express myself more. I was able to enjoy painting, mixing color, making brush strokes, and controlling line.

Student work

Still life combined with a landscape- objects placed in a setting that reflects the objects/tribute to historical time period/past/future/nostaligia

Figures walking through a game board- game pieces are large, figures are small, interesting perspective

Wood mannequin figure drawing, lit with strong lighting to show shadows, with the figures in various poses, falling, and broken limbs, distorted body

A still life of wrapped objects, showing shadows, textures

Drawing from the point of view behind something/someone

Exploring human connections, love between mother and child, consolation

A random spill- drop or spill things and draw it as they naturally fell

Musical instruments

Drawing of food photo-realistically

A crowd of people- in a car, on a couch, on the subway, waiting on line

Inner spirituality/interpreting religion

The artist in their environment