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Students in Portfolio Class may choose 20 or more activities from this list.

Students will be required to complete a minimum of 5 every nine weeks of any of these activities or those of personal interest and /or classroom explorations. I will be checking your sketchbooks regularly for progress but your sketchbook renderings will not be assessed fully until the end of each nine weeks.

1. Choose your favorite artists quote and respond visually to it. 2. Create a 2-page spread using all kind of lines, including those done with erasers or a line collage. You can incorporate type and figurative drawings. 3. Create a collage concentrating on all kind of textures. 4. Draw mechanical objects (pay attention to scale). You may add text. 5. Draw a contour of hands. Try a variety of positions or overlapping them. 6. Draw human expressions (facial). You may use digital photographs. 7. Create a tonal drawing; value. Push for lights and darks, not so much a grey scale. 8. Create a drawing using negative space ONLY. 9. Draw a combination of gestural drawings in different media and scale. 10. Choose artists quotes, poems, text and write it down in your sketchbook. React to the quote visually or verbally. 11. Copy the brushstrokes of an artist, learn from their expertise. Examples of artists are but not limited to: Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix, Henri Matisse, Giorgio Morandi, Kathe Kollwitz. 12. Create a 2-page biography page spread of an artist focusing on design. Include artist quote, biography, photo, etc. Work with color, text, composition. 13. Draw one or more objects focusing on scale. Large objects/cropping. 14. Pick-a-boo drawing: Burn a section of one page to form a hole. The next page will be part of the hole. Surprise the viewer with what is behind that opening.

15. Using old books, reap or cut pages and mount them to create an original artwork (could be inspired by the text or images). Paint on top, highlight words, use collage 16. Create 4 portraits: 1) recreate a master line drawing, 2) your portrait (about the same size), 3) Recreate your portrait again in the style of the chosen artist (ex. Cubist), and 4) recreate as a collage. 17. Read the manifestos and come up with your own art movement; your own manifesto. Show it visually. Example: Destroyism all art should be created and then destroy. 18. Make your own tattoo. 19. Illustrate an excerpt from a poem (could be in a different language). 20. Drawing with clip art hand: Print and transfer on your sketchbook the hand/pen clip art. Create a drawing as if the clip art hand has made it. Needs to look like its part of the image. 21. Reap or cut a part of an image from a magazine/book. Glue it down in any place on your sketchbook and reinvent it to create your own. 22. Create a new animal. Combine other animals to make your own. 23. Find a fun phrase to illustrate and come up with your own visual interpretation. 24. Creative FREE drawing. Choose a subject/theme of your like and play with the idea using different media, changing the scale, working with surface (cannot be too simple). 25. Surprise drawing: Surprise your teacher. 26. Create an abstract and representational drawing or painting focusing on proximity of objects/colors and repetition (shapes, color, techniques, lines, patterns). Check artist Roger Brown. 27. Draw a portrait using a high contrast of light and dark. Place the light from different angles than "normal" -under the chin, behind the head, in front of the face. Draw the attention of the viewer to a focal point (Emphasis) in the image. 28. Draw an imaginary place focusing on symmetrical (formal) or asymmetrical (informal) balance. Example artist: Hollis Siegler.

29. Create a two-page drawing. One side from observation (i.e. still life) and the other side from memory. Arrange them using some of the elements/principles of design to create one spectacular drawing. 30. Create an interesting architectural drawing in one or two point perspective. 31. Use the four depth principles to create a drawing showing the illusion of space (overlapping, diminishing size, converging parallel lines, soften edges and contrast). 32. Select a social issue (drug abuse, homeless, pollution, etc.) that concerns you and create a drawing/painting that will make people about the problem. Use color and contrast to express your feelings. 33. Choose an art movement (Fauve, Impressionism, Abstraction, Dada, Surrealism, Op Art, Pop Art Etc.) and draw/paint recreating the characteristics of that style. 34. Illustrate a favorite story of yours told by a grandparent; uncle, or other relative. 35. Create a 2-page spread set of 5 series of drawings to explore hatching and crosshatching to create values in shadow in negative and/or positive space (3-D). Draw 4 smaller rectangles of a 1-2 border in between each in one and a large rectangle on the other page. Can be from an object you can hold in your hand. Pay attention to composition and proportions.

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