An Album of My Life
"For my AP art portfolio theme I have created a visual album of my junior year. My primary essential question was “How can I depict an album of experiences throughout my junior year in high school?” For each of my artworks, I have selected a photograph that I took this year. Some of my essential questions for each artwork have included things like, “How can I use the lighting, shadows to create an interesting piece of art?” or “How can I depict my relationship with my pets or family members?” When choosing the next artwork idea, I wanted to make sure that I drew things that were important to me; for example, I wanted to draw each of my family members. Before each drawing we sketched. These sketches helped me with the compositions of the drawings, because I drew multiple different arrangements to find out which one I liked best. I have been drawing a lot of portraits this year, including myself, which has been challenging. I thought that I was mainly going to be using paint, but now I have been using a mixture of chalk and colored pencil. Overall, AP Art has been a fun experience, and I have gotten more comfortable with drawing portraits and experimenting with different mediums." - Taylor Christian
"For my AP art portfolio theme I have created a visual album of my junior year. My primary essential question was “How can I depict an album of experiences throughout my junior year in high school?” For each of my artworks, I have selected a photograph that I took this year. Some of my essential questions for each artwork have included things like, “How can I use the lighting, shadows to create an interesting piece of art?” or “How can I depict my relationship with my pets or family members?” When choosing the next artwork idea, I wanted to make sure that I drew things that were important to me; for example, I wanted to draw each of my family members. Before each drawing we sketched. These sketches helped me with the compositions of the drawings, because I drew multiple different arrangements to find out which one I liked best. I have been drawing a lot of portraits this year, including myself, which has been challenging. I thought that I was mainly going to be using paint, but now I have been using a mixture of chalk and colored pencil. Overall, AP Art has been a fun experience, and I have gotten more comfortable with drawing portraits and experimenting with different mediums." - Taylor Christian