SketchbookNittyGritty

=Advanced Drawing & Painting 2009-2010=
 * __Sketchbook__**

Your sketchbook is a year-long homework project which will represent a significant portion of the overall effort which you bring to this course. You will be using your sketchbook to help you look more closely at things, use your imagination, and explore ideas and techniques that interest, challenge, and stimulate you. Basically, it will be a book of ideas. These ideas will range from the visible (observed) to the conceptual. They will incorporate widely varying stylistic, material and compositional experiments. You will think in terms of traditional, sculptural and technologically generated image making. You will be challenged to use your memory, your visual powers of perception, your intellect, your creativity and even your sense of humor.

Some of the pages of your book will be done in response to specific challenges that I present to the whole class. Other pages will be solely produced from your own ideas. Unless I specify a medium, you may use absolutely ANY media which you think could create your solution to a challenge. Your imagery may be black and white or color or a combination of the two. Think beyond what you might find in a well-stocked art cabinet. Your solutions need not fit exactly into your sketchbook (although it will be easier to manage if they do), yet if larger, should be folded and somehow attached into the book. Try not to rip pages out of your book. If you do something you don’t like simply re-work it or glue a new piece of paper over it to use later.

Please see the sketchbook rubric on the wiki for grading details.

**For your second assignment, due Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, please choose an object or small grouping of objects that in some way describes YOU. Set these up in a composition of your choice and use your choice of media. Please try to __**utilize the page as a whole**__. Remember that thinking outside the box is encouraged….**