Art Suggestions

no_steeze

no_steeze

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so i take an AP art class at my school and the goal by the end of the year is to produce an AP portfolio and send it to College Board. i'm sure someone on here has done this portfolio, but for those of you who haven't, the last step is a concentration, 12 works that are all linked together and are tied together by similarities and meaning to you. they can be anywhere from sketches to oil paintings.
so i decided to focus on skiing, naturally, and i was looking for some ideas. it needs to go past just a skier, or a pair of skis or something, it needs to be deep and cool in some way. so if anyone wants to suggest some possibilities it would help with my thought process. any medium is fine, i work best with charcoal or ebony pencil and white but i think i should throw in some watercolor or paint or stamps or something
so far i have an idea of drawing some crowbars with a mirrored lens but putting something else in the reflection, possibly my face or something creepy, but ideas like thati also tie skiing with switzerland because i've been going there since i was really little to ski and i have family there, if that helps with any ideas.
thanks ns
 
make a mirrored lense, but have like an actuall pic of you in the reflection, or you could have the topsheet of your skis to be something artsy fartsy
 
i hated AP Art they were so tough on everyone in my classes work, i did photo because all of ours had to be one medium. but your idea is nice, maybe paint on some goggles?
 
paint on some goggle lenses, paint on anything that has to do with skiing, paint on skis. Make sculptures from old skis and poles. For ap art my friend did sculptures out of things she found in dumpsters and then you take photos of each sculpture to send it to college board. Collages are also pretty unique. think beyond just paper and pencil.
Don't think that because your concentration is "skiing" you have to have pictures of people skiing for every piece. "Skiing" is what you want people looking at your collection to feel and live and breathe like you experience it. So view each piece as a different way you experience skiing beyond just the conventional idea of skiing. if that makes sense? good luck and have some fun with it.
 
yep, right on
i wasn't clear enough, i'm doing the drawing section, but paint and shit is okay also it just has to be on paper or canvas or something, it can't be sculptures or photography
 
my threads.. got a midterm now but i did this in highschool and know exactly what youre talking about.. so i'll def help you out
 
ahh that limits you a little bit i guess. is that a college board rule? i didnt submit my portfolio to college board so i did some crazy stuff
you could make up templates for skis and draw some top sheet designs? or you could have different drawings/paintings of looking at skis and skiers from unusual perspectives.
 
I made a series of 25 artist trading cards a while ago, and the requirements were they had to have something that related to me and had to be connected by a common theme and medium, so it seems like a somewhat similar project. I started by making an abstract design that was continuous throughout the cards, whether they were lined up horizontally or vertically. I made the first one black, and then used varying shades of grey, and made the last one white. I used charcoal, pencil, paint, ink, a kneadable eraser and paper scraps for the values on the cards, so the texture would vary from card to card. then I printed off 25 pictures of me skiing, and some other random photos that I took and cut them to fit around the design on each card.I also collaged on various parts of candy wrappers and magazines that I found interesting, and i attached random objects to some of them. The result was that they all had similar characteristics and could be seen as a whole series, but each card was a separate entity at the same time. I hope that is helpful a bit. I don't have any pictures of the project because my camera is broken.
 
well, one thing you could do is tell a story. My senior year in HS for my AP 2-D design concentration I focused on the auto mobile and so I did three rows each telling a different maintenance problem 1 being changing a tire, the other being changing the oil and the final being changing the sparks plugs. So I focused on each of those and did designs that showed the motion you had to go through, each row was then broken into columns that were similar for each row, so for instance I had a black and white piece in each step, I had a colored pieces that looked somewhat similar in each row also and so one. I ended up getting a 5 on the exam and was happy for myself.

for AP Drawing I did the condentration of fences and had a bunch of different types and mediums (I'll post a few I have on my computer at the end) Also got a 5

As for your concentration, I did consider doing skiing and found it very hard to come up with 12 coherent pieces that would work.

You could do a multiple view mixed medium collage of ski boots or some other part of skiing.

You could also do a simple black and white drawing of a snow gun blowing snow or something, It should be able to get some cool effect.

just some ideas....

here are two of my skiing related pictures I did back in HS, one was for my breadth section and the other was for my concentration (the year of fences)

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If you have the time (ususally we had a quarter to do all 12 breadth section,) then a stamp could also be a cool way to make a picture of skiing

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My AP art concentration was mountains. I loved working with charcoal and had a lot of fun with it. A chairlift in ink would be dope. Mountains relate to skiing so draw some shit from your trip White charcoal on black paper looks tight for a snow scape.
 
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