Due Dates - Drawing Portfolio
You can plan your pieces considering these Idea Sparkers:
Also, consider using Photography and Digital Art as alternative techniques to explore.
- Abstraction—to depict an idea or essence of an image by reducing it to essential elements.
- Animation—to serialize images in various stages of action to depict movement and progression.
- Distortion—to bend, twist, stretch, or compress an image.
- Elaboration—to embellish, add pattern, detail, and adornment to an image.
- Fragmentation—to split, fragment, insert, invert, rotate, shatter, superimpose, and/or divide an image and then reconstruct it to create a new synthesis of parts.
- Juxtaposition—to combine unlikely images or exchange, overlap, or superimpose parts to create unusual relationships and a new synthesis.
- Magnification—to take a small, but critical, portion of an image and enlarge it.
- Metamorphosis—to depict images or forms in progressive stages of growth or change.
- Multiplication—to multiply parts to produce repetition, rhythm, or a sequence.
- Reversals—to reverse the laws of nature (e.g., time of day, seasons, gravity, size, age, function) or reverse space as in negative/positive.
- Simplification—to record only the most important parts of an image, omitting extraneous repetitive details.
- Viewpoint—to depict an image from unusual points of view; a foreshortened viewpoint can be exaggerated.
Also, consider using Photography and Digital Art as alternative techniques to explore.
Download the due dates table below:
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September 30:
Identity mixed media piece using collage, paint and drawing. See example of technique here.
One high quality piece - you choose.
October 31:
A commentary on Immigration - Colour Pastels - Restricted Palette
One piece of your choice on expressive pen - click here for examples
One imaginary or surreal landscape of your choice, in pencil
November 30:
Realistic Self portrait in charcoal, pastel or conte, or a mixture
One delicate and intricate piece of observational illustration done in watercolour - a shell, a pine cone, something intricate
One high quality piece in pencil - you choose.
December 30:
Draw the same object three times, using different materials - Acrylic with high contrast, Pencil in cross-hatching or pointillism, Charcoal in realistic.
One high quality piece of your choice including bold calligraphy
One page with an overlapping study of realistic hands, eyes, feet and lips, in graphite pencil.
January 30:
One high quality piece of your choice including three point perspective
Three concentration pieces (take photos, take notes)
February 29:
Four concentration pieces (take photos, take notes)
March 30:
Four concentration pieces (take photos, take notes)
April 15:
Five quality pieces are selected together with teacher, to send for quality section
Portfolio is submitted electronically to college board, for teacher for review
Identity mixed media piece using collage, paint and drawing. See example of technique here.
One high quality piece - you choose.
October 31:
A commentary on Immigration - Colour Pastels - Restricted Palette
One piece of your choice on expressive pen - click here for examples
One imaginary or surreal landscape of your choice, in pencil
November 30:
Realistic Self portrait in charcoal, pastel or conte, or a mixture
One delicate and intricate piece of observational illustration done in watercolour - a shell, a pine cone, something intricate
One high quality piece in pencil - you choose.
December 30:
Draw the same object three times, using different materials - Acrylic with high contrast, Pencil in cross-hatching or pointillism, Charcoal in realistic.
One high quality piece of your choice including bold calligraphy
One page with an overlapping study of realistic hands, eyes, feet and lips, in graphite pencil.
January 30:
One high quality piece of your choice including three point perspective
Three concentration pieces (take photos, take notes)
February 29:
Four concentration pieces (take photos, take notes)
March 30:
Four concentration pieces (take photos, take notes)
April 15:
Five quality pieces are selected together with teacher, to send for quality section
Portfolio is submitted electronically to college board, for teacher for review