AMAZING SKETCHBOOKS!!!!

These are the type of sketchbooks that we should be working towards as AP students. Each of the sketchbooks shown are beautiful works of art.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthew39arch

Look at your own sketchbook, what can you  add? improve on? practice?

These sketchbooks include:
- Inspiration
- Ideas
- Things found
- Interests
- Other artists: Information and examples of their work
- Studies
- Notes
- Resolved pieces
- Written word
- Photographs
- Much more....

Destroying Film and Experiments in the Dark Room

http://lizzy-peach.tumblr.com/tagged/guides

This artist soaks film in different solutions to get different affects from her film. Take a look at her link and attempt some of her experiments if you are up for the challenge. Would love to see what some of you might get as results.

Boneface: UK artist

UK artist Boneface is known for his digital illustrations that have now been used for the most recent cover album and music videos of Queens of the Stone Age.

website:
http://www.boneface.co.uk/index.php?/about/

Leap into the Void

About The Leap Into the Void

In 1960, French avant-garde artist Yves Klein created a photo montage of himself leaping from a wall over a quiet Paris street. The black and white photograph, called the Leap Into the Void, was Klein’s way of embracing the irrational and celebrating groundlessness in an increasingly industrial era bound by convention. The photograph captures both the eye and the imagination because it does not conform to expectations. It captures an act of defiance both against what any sensible person would do and against gravity itself.

In each our own journey toward self-discovery, we can sometimes find ourselves leaping into the void, the great terra incognita—the unknown land—of the soul. Our own leaps might involve making a big career change, starting a creative endeavor, attending to the care of a dying friend or family member, going on a religious pilgrimage, leaving a marriage or getting married, having children, or packing a bag and getting a one-way ticket to a place you’ve never been before.

A leap can also involve nothing more—and nothing less—than a dive into the depths of our own unconscious. Or kicking a bad habit or addiction. Or being vulnerable, like telling someone you love them. Or coming out. A leap is something that scares us and draws us at the same time, and no matter what we do or where we go, we often cross thresholds with fear and trembling, flee from certain psychic death, make unbearable choices, and find ourselves lost and without a map.

But we have an inner territory we can turn to if we pay attention to its many manifestations—intuition, hunches, dreams, and, most important, the soul’s own deep and undeniable calling—to guide us on this often harrowing but always rewarding journey. A leap into the void can involve danger but a timely leap can also lead us out of danger. “The Master of Zen says, ‘Jump into the foaming waves of the whirlpool below!,’” writes R. H. Blyth in his book, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics. “The monk jumps, and finds himself on his feet, walking along the road that leads to his own home.”

Fun Typographic posters

Olafur Eliasson: Painting with Light

Olafur Eliasson has another show at the Tate Modern in London, here is a link to a short video on the BBC meeting with the artist as he discusses his process and idea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19664574

Photo realistic painter

Kang, Kang-Hoon:

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/09/07/photographs-freakishly-realistic-portrait-paintings/

Photographer

Sparrek Fine Art photography

http://www.sparrek.org/#mi=1&pt=0&pi=1&s=0&p=-1&a=0&at=0

Two-Faced Portraits with Makeup by Sebastian Bieniek.

Doublefaced: Sebastian Bieniek Creates Unsettling Two-Faced Portraits with Makeup

Work that shows a way to reinvent how medias are used and apply them in a new creative way. Always remember to rethink, recreate and evolve the way you view and analyze the world around you. Do not take what you see at face value. Question it and view it from different angles and points of view to make new meaning and generate work that inspires and leaves viewers asking for more.

Doublefaced: Sebastian Bieniek Creates Unsettling Two-Faced Portraits with Makeup

Mixed Media Artist who combines drawing and leaves

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Personal-Project-Fashion-in-Leaves/10417775

Tang Chiew Ling
"Fashion in Leaf" was inspired by leaf and fashion. I was wondering does fashion can be part of leaf art as I'm interested in fashion. The most challlenging in this project was how to apply leaf to dress! However, I tried to find some more special leaf this time to make the "dress" looks elegant. I was very surprised to get those such beautiful leaves in a garden. I never thought the leaves can be so beautiful, some of them are full of structures, patterns and lines on it, different colors in a leaf, even is withered leaves. So, I applied them into different types of dresses according to the different types of leaves.

Portrait Artist Andrew Salgado

Andrew Salgado:

"Salgado’s large-scale figurative paintings are comprised of deftly placed smears and drips of spray paint that charge each work with gritty, almost intangible hints of energy."

to view more of his work:
http://www.andrewsalgado.com/work/2013

Artists you should know:

Great resource for artists from all kinds of mediums and backgrounds:

ART21 offers mini interviews with artists that introduce you to a piece/series/life of an artist recognized for being influential within the international art community. This is a GOLDEN resource in exploring different artists creating work around the world.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists

Great Websites

Great website resources to get inspired:

http://www.booooooom.com/blog/art/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com

http://www.deviantart.com

... more to come...

AP Websites, Guidelines and other helpful hints for your portfolio

College Board
The below link will take you to a page where you can see examples of different AP portfolio's. It contains links to:
About studio Art Digital Submission

The 3-D Design, 2-D & Drawing Portfolio

Portfolio Requirements at a Glance

Scoring Guidelines

Student Performance Q&A

Grade Distributions

Scoring Statistics

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/index.html