Sketchbook Assignment #22: Summer Activity

DUE MAY 12

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Summer Activity

This one is SO easy: Draw, collage, paint, etc. a picture of you doing your FAVORITE summer activity! The picture must take up the entire page, include yourself in the drawing, and make sure it is fully colored in neatly! This is your LAST sketchbook assignment for the school year - make it count! Have fun and be creative! 

Sketchbook Assignment #21 - Rousseau: Jungle

DUE MAY 5

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Rousseau: Jungle

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Primitive style (meaning he did paintings of indigenous people and animals in their native surroundings). Despite being ridiculed during his lifetime by art critics, he became to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. 

Henri Rousseau

Jungle with Lion

Draw your own jungle drawing, using a full page in your sketchbook, looking at the artist, Rousseau, for inspiration. Include AT LEAST ONE animal in your jungle. Use any materials you would like to completely and neatly color it in! Have fun and be creative! :)

Student examples:

Sketchbook Assignment #20 - Design your own money

DUE APRIL 28

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Design your own money

1. Using the template you were given in class and as seen below, create your own money! You should have a bill and three coins (large, medium and small). Color these in using any materials you'd like. Be creative and have fun!

Sketchbook #19 - Size Relationship

DUE APRIL 21

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Size Relationship

1. Choose TWO objects which have a relationship to one another but are NOT the same size at all (like the front door and the key; or an apple and the fridge; or a bug and a plant).

2. Draw the two different sized objects as if their sizes have been switched or they are the same size - the key is now as big as the front door; the apple is so big it fills the inside of the fridge; the bug is now larger than the plant. 

3. Color picture in using any materials you'd like. 

Be inventive! Think up your own two related objects (or use one of my examples) and observe & draw their details carefully.

Sketchbook Assignment #18 - O'Keefe: Close-up of Flower

DUE APRIL 14

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: O'Keefe: Close-up of Flower

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"

Georgia O'Keefe

Light of Iris, 1924, Oil on canvas

Pink Tulip, 1926, Oil on canvas

Red Poppy, 1927, Oil on canvas

1. Find a picture of a flower, a fake flower or a real flower that you would like to draw close-up. 

2. Looking at this flower and filling up the sketchbook page, draw the whole flower or just part of the flower in pencil. Think of it like you're looking through a magnifying glass or taking a really close-up picture with a camera. The flower should fill the page. 

3. Color it in with your choice of materials. 

Sketchbook Assignment #17 - Drawing Materials

DUE MARCH 31

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Drawing Materials

1. Choose at least 3 different art materials (ideas: paintbrush, pencil, pen, marker, crayon, colored pencil, watercolors, oil pastels, eraser, glue, scissors, etc) and set them up in a still-life. 

2. Draw these materials as large as you can in pencil. 

3. Color your drawing in with any material(s) you like. I used markers and some outlining with thin Sharpie. 
  

Sketchbook Assignment #16 - Matisse Still-life

DUE MARCH 24

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Matisse Still-life

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of color. He was not worried about making his paintings look real, but rather that they had interesting arrangements of colors and shapes.

1. Start with drawing a vase and flowers. Add a circle for the table. Add the room lines. Draw simple flowers in the vase.Try to make the art look flat, rather than 3D, because that is what Matisse liked to do. Trace your lines with black permanent marker. 

2. Use crayons to color to color the flowers and leaves. Draw different line patterns on all the other surfaces. Keep them large and simple. 

3. Use watercolor paint to fill in all the areas.