Sketch Book Assignments

Sketch book Assignments:

Visual Arts

Bonus Sketchbook Assignments

• Be sure to bring your sketchbook to class every day, as you will need to use it for silent drawing exercises and class assignments.  If you finish class work early, you may work on your sketchbook assignment for that week.
• Be sure to spend at least 30 minutes on each sketchbook assignment.  Follow the instructions carefully – make sure to add colour when instructed to do so.
• Use one FULL page for each assignment.  Do not draw on the back of these pages.

Assignment #1 - “Related Phrase” Worth 3%

Illustrate a phrase using drawings of objects that are related to its meaning.  You can choose from the following list, or think of one on your own:  tool shed, race car, field goal, wild cat, hot dog, chemistry lab, musical instrument. Be sure to use a DIFFERENT object for each letter. Use bright COLOUR!

DUE: Before Christmas Break

Assignment #2 - “The Other Meaning” 3%

Choose a saying that doesn't literally mean what it actually says (for example, it's raining cats and dogs).  Illustrate the saying in a colour composition according to its literal interpretation (exactly what it says).  Include the saying as part of the design of your full page composition.  Use bright COLOUR! You can choose from the following list, or think of one on your own: apple of his eye, at the tip of my tongue, cat got your tongue, cold turkey, crocodile tears, in one ear and out the other, my lips are sealed, poker face, your eyes are bigger than your belly, two-faced.

DUE:  End of May

Assignment #3 - “Magazine Reflections” 3%

Find a FULL PAGE magazine photograph that is in black and white.  Cut the photo into 10 even pieces (like a jigsaw puzzle).  Select alternating pieces and paste them in their correct positions on the sketchbook page.  Glue the remaining pieces onto the opposite page to use for a visual reference.  Shade in the missing pieces in pencil, and try to create the values (lights and darks) that are in the original image.

DUE: End of May

Rubric

Total:                 /10

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