Sketchbook Entry Prompt for Jan 5

1. Divide your spread into 8 windows (any size, any shape). Devote a window to each day of winter break.
2. Illustrate Christmas morning and the presents you would get if you lived on Mars in the year 3010.
3. Your winter break is a movie. Design a promotional poster for it on your spread.

Portfolio Day- Sunday December 5

Just a reminder... this weekend (Sunday) is Portfolio Day at MICA.
http://www.mica.edu/Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Undergraduate_Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Visit_Campus/Visiting_MICA/National_Portfolio_Day_in_Baltimore.html

HOCO Scholarship Deadline 12/13

Go to:
http://www.hocoarts.org/grant_programs.php
to download an application.

Due Dates! Hooray!

Claywork for your shoes must be completed by 2:15 Friday December 3!!!

ARTAY PARTAY! Alternative Option

Life Drawing/Painting Sessions - Drop In Monitor: Jim Adkins Adult $12.00 ( member: $12.00 )
Start Time: 7:30 PM / End Time: 10:00 PM
Days: Tuesdays Location: Room 9
A live, nude model is provided at each session. A monitor coordinates all sessions, however, instruction is not provided. The sessions consist of a single pose with the same model over a multiple week period for detailed figure study work. One day, multi-pose sketching sessions will be held on occasion. Bring your own art materials. There are a limited number of easels, which are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Sessions purchased in advance are only good for one year from time of purchase. Pre-registration is not required.

Figure Model Sessions - Drop In

Participants under age 18 must have parental consent to participate.

$12 per session (purchased in advance)

$60 for 6 sessions

LOCATION:
Howard County Center for the Arts
8510 High Ridge Road
Ellicott City, Maryland 21043

Portfolio Day- Sunday December 5

If you are a junior or senior planning on going to art college, you should bring your portfolio to:

http://www.mica.edu/Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Undergraduate_Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Visit_Campus/Visiting_MICA/National_Portfolio_Day_in_Baltimore.html

ARTAY PARTAY!

There will be no Artay Partay the week of Thanksgiving.
Why?
A) I have glorious dates with your parents
B) I have to bake pies.

Use this time off to work on your sketchbook entry or perhaps some of the contests listed in previous entries. Happy Thanksgiving!

Art Opportunities

Gigacon: A Multimedia Convention
http://www.gigacon.aiwdepts.com/


Images of Freedom Poster Contest
Area middle school and high school students are asked to
interpret what Images of Freedom means to them. Winning artwork will be
displayed on the side of a Howard County Transit vehicle for the entire
month of February! Again this year, all artwork will be featured in a
February 2011 gallery show at Columbia Art Center.
RULES FOR ELIGIBILITY
• Open to all Howard County middle and high school students
• Finished artwork must be submitted to CA headquarters no later than Wednesday, January 5, 2011
• Artwork must be submitted on white 8.5”x11” paper, landscape format
• Artwork should display images, controversial words not allowed (non-abstract artwork preferred)
• Artwork may be done in pencil, colored pen, ink, colored ink, markers, colored markers, colored paint
or original photography
• Winning images will be reproduced and displayed on Howard County Transit buses, and should therefore,
provide sufficient contrast and color intensity
• Required: Please include name, age, school, home address, email and phone number on a separate
sheet of paper
Send entries to: Images of Freedom Poster Contest
Columbia Association • c/o Kelly Cooper • 10221 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, MD 21044
For more information, please call 410-715-3104.

AP Students-

AP Art Students

Homework/Sketchbook Assignment due Tuesday November 23. 50 points.

Find 5 artists who a working similarly to your concentration. Print at least one artwork from each artist, attach in your sketchbook on one spread. Record the name, artist, and date for each work as well as the source you got it from.

If you do not have a color printer at home, plan ahead to use the one in 707 after school.

Sketchbook Entry Prompt for December 14

1. Design your own fragrance, create a 2-page spread advertisement for it.
2. Design your own sandwich (as far from 'normal' as possible- This should make the McRib look healthy and normal), create a 2-page spread advertisement for it.
3. Design a tool or object that makes art class easier, create a 2-page spread advertisement for it.

Behold Caroline's edible art. Mmmmm.

Sketchbook Entry Prompts for November 30

1. Thanksgiving Dinner, Before and After (This does not necessarily have to do with food)
2. A place I visit that I do not live in.
3. Thanksgiving Break Travel Log.

You rock.

Thank you those of you who check the blog regularly. You are awesome students !!
Monday we will be finishing up the interior drawings. They are looking great-- a huge improvement over the first round! You should be proud!!

AP Students-

11/18 Is your In-Process Homework check-- 50 points

Sketchbook Entry Due Tomorrow.

Nuff said.
Bring your sketchbook tomorrow.

Seniors--

If you are planning to apply to Towson and enroll in an art program, see me ASAP.

ARTAY PARTAY!

There is no Artay Partay at OMHS the week of November 8, but you do have another exciting opportunity for evening art making fun-

2 Seminars are being offered- If you wish to attend, you are more than welcome- just please sign up on the window (outside of my classroom) by the end of school Monday so we have an accurate head count for supplies.

Both are at Howard High School, 6:30-8pm
Tuesday November 9, 2011- Expressive Drawing Techniques
Thursday November 11, 2011- Narrative Traditions and Cinematic Compositions