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