CINEMA
Konise Millender – [email protected]
Hello Cinema Students!
Summer is here and your learning must continue. Below you will find assignments for
both incoming and returning students. These assignments will be graded once the
2016-2017 school year begins.
(Note: Summer is also a good time to clear fines and check credits. All leftover fees have
been reported to the main office; you can call to get your totals. Contact your counselor to
make sure you’re on the right track to graduation.)
Advanced Students (Directing focus)- 1) Go to imsdb.com to find the scripts listed below. 2)
Choose a script. 3) Create storyboards for the first 2 pages based on how you would want the film to
look. 4) Create a shot list of the first two pages (with diagrams) based on how you imagine the film.
Note: please type the shot list. The following links are good resources:
http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/2030/how-do-i-write-up-a-shot-list,
http://www.elementsofcinema.com/cinematography/shot-list/, Storyboard Worksheet.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Written by
Lawrence Kasdan
J.J. Abrams
Michael Arndt
Foxcatcher
Interstellar
Written by
Written by
E. Max Frye
Dan Futterman
Jonathan Nolan
Fault in Our Stars, The
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Written by
Written by
Scott Neustadter
Michael H. Weber
Dean DeBlois
Cressida Cowell
Incoming Students: You will watch 5 movies from any of the American Film Institute Lists, found at
http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx. You will type a one page summary for each film (please
include the title and director on each page), detailing what you liked and did not like about each film
and bring the printed summaries to class the first week of school.
CREATIVE WRITING
Amy Stengel – [email protected]; [email protected]
Greetings! We are now one week into summer, and I would like to share with you some of our recent celebrations,
academic successes, and upcoming events.
Our final Gathering of Writers performance welcomed writer-in-residence for 2016, Laura Van Prooyen. She shared
her vision of community and read her poetry during the keynote address. Her words about writing were lovely and
meaningful, and she spoke thoughtfully about the NESA writers. Beautiful poetry, short stories, screenplays, and
dramatic stage monologues were shared. The senior writers offered ten minute highlights from their senior projects and
unveiled our new astounding literary magazine, Paper Tiger.
Last September, we opened the year with an elegant reading at The McNay Art Museum. We are grateful for their
continued support. This event was followed by Art Unplugged in December, April’s exceptional High Wire Gallery
reading, the San Antonio Book Festival service event and award ceremony, and our final unveiling event on the NESA
stage. Each community partnership helps our program to thrive and builds community connections important to each
writer and their work. Each performance and publication showed the accomplished and award winning writing of
writers at every grade level, in diverse genres, through meaningful interpretations, and by stellar performances.
We also entered many contests this past year. Many writers were recognized at the regional level for The Scholastic
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers: 16 of our writers were recognized with Regional Gold Key Awards, 21 with Silver
Key Awards, and 18 with Honorable Mention Awards. These awards were out of over 230,000 nationwide contributions
to the national Art and Writing Scholastic Contest. Several of our poets were recognized at The Pegasus Award
ceremony supported by the SA Library Foundation. During this event each writer read his or her poem, and the SAPL
published their work in the Pegasus Poetry Literary Collection, available for purchase at your local library or by check-out
from the shelves. There were many other contests and awards this year, these were just a few of the highlights, and a
taste of what you have to look forward to in the very near future.
A heartfelt farewell goes out to our 11 NESA creative writing senior class members of 2016 as they embark on a new
path, a journey to places such as The University of Texas, UIW, Ithaca College, A&M, University of Colorado, and Baylor.
They are amazing leaders, writers, and strong community advocates. Their parents have been tireless in their
commitment and encouragement. We are a bit sad that they are graduating, and they will be missed; however we are
joyful about their success and future journey enfolding.
Have a great summer! Incoming students, I will send you an email about your summer assignment, if you do not
receive it by June 17th please send me an email; I would love to hear from each of you: [email protected] .
Please watch for a Facebook posting regarding our NESA Young Writer’s Camp in August, our 2016-2017 calendar, list of
supplies, and other needs in emails and on our Facebook page: NESA CW. This page offers much news from our
accomplished alumni members, recent updates and announcements, and other important writerly news. Parents and
students are strongly encouraged to join our page in order to receive the latest communications quickly. It was a great
year; I look forward to the 2016-2017 new academic year and to spending time with each of you.
Graciously,
Amy Stengel,
Director of Creative Writing
North East School of the Arts
DANCE
Carolyn Gresham – [email protected]
Dena Mabry – [email protected]
STAY UP TO DATE WITH NESA DANCE!
Let’s be friends on Facebook
Become friends with NESA Dance and stay up to date with the dance department!
Search: [email protected] and send a friend request to Nesa Dance.
DANCE INTENSITY
Dance Intensity is a wonderful opportunity to start off your year or career at NESA!
A MANDATORY Dance Department activity, Dance Intensity is a two-day dance workshop, filled with technique, leaps
and turns, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, musical theatre and Hip-Hop!
When?
August 5, 2016
8:00am-3:30pm
Meet in the theatre at 7:45am
August 6, 2016
8:00am-3:00pm
Where?
Roosevelt High School
5110 Walzem Road
San Antonio, TX 78218
Bring your $65.00 check payable to Dance Intensity the first day of the workshop.
Reminder: You will need to bring a sack lunch and plenty of water to Dance Intensity.
Questions? Email Mrs. Gresham at [email protected]
PERFORMANCES
The North East School of the Arts Dance Department will present two shows: Steppin’ Into the Holidays December 2-4,
2016 and Footnotes: A Concert of Dance April 20-23, 2017.
DANCE FEE
All NESA Dance Majors are required to pay a $140.00 dance fee payable in installments. This fee includes meals during
production weeks, choreography fees and costumes. This fee also includes two body tights for ladies or heavy duty
tights and a dance belt for men.
Dance Majors Dress Code
Ballet
MEN- Black heavy duty tights, black split-sole ballet shoes, solid color T-shirt (fitted), dance belt
WOMEN- Black leotard, pink tights, pink split-sole ballet shoes with elastic sewn
Repertory & Rehearsals
MEN- Jazz pants, dance pants, or fitted sweat pants, fitted T-shirt, split-sole jazz shoes.
WOMEN- Solid colored leotard, black or tan tights, split-sole jazz shoes.
FALL MUSICAL
The musical theatre department will be presenting Phantom of the Opera this fall. Dance majors may audition to be a
part of the dance ensemble of the musical, although it is not required. The fall musical dance audition is Monday,
August 15, 4pm-7pm in the Lee HS Theater.
Ladies – wear a leotard and tights if you have them, and bring ballet shoes and/or jazz shoes. Bring pointe shoes only if
you are an experienced pointe dancer.
Gentlemen- wear clothes you can dance in and bring jazz or ballet shoes.
SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
Continue taking dance classes and training throughout the summer!
Have a safe and fun summer vacation!!!
The Orchestra 2016 Summer Assignment!
Mark Twehues – [email protected]; text to 210-273-7162
Freshmen students prepare all major and minor scales one, two, or three octaves, whenever possible; 2
notes per beat at 96 beats per minute. 2) All other students will prepare all major and minor scales, stepwise
and in thirds, plus the major and minor arpeggios. Seniors, start working on your diminished arpeggios. If you
don’t know what they are, get online and find out.
Everyone MUST learn a new etude or piece this summer. All students should start preparing a Class I or
Class 2 solo for Solo/Ensemble Contest so you have time to start memorizing! Remember, to get to State,
you have to play a Class I solo from memory and get a Superior rating on it. Try this easy link to the Prescribed
Music List for UIL. http://www.utexas.edu/uil/pml/ I would also suggest that some day after you finish your
morning chores and you’re looking for something FUN to do, go over to RBC and browse their bins for
interesting music to try.
I will have Summer Assignment Tests on August 22-26. Those dates are the first week we start school. I
know that some of you are out of town at workshops or vacation and won’t get back until after school has
started. Please let me know your conflicts if you have any. I’m planning on sending out a schedule for who will
play on what date. If I don’t hear from you I expect you to make the arrangements to be at your appointed time.
Those of you who can, please record your summer assignment and send it to me between August 8-19. I’ll
listen to those that I receive to get a head start on the listening part. I don’t care what format you record on. If
you send a file, be sure to make it something the school district would be able to access… I have Mac and PC
availability. Percussionists, I will listen to rudiments.
As I spoke with you during the last days in class, I am expecting all string, wind, brass, and percussion
students to prepare for the Region and/or All-State auditions in the Fall. I’ve given out the All-State string
excerpts. The winds, brass, and percussion will come out at the end of July like usual. If you are an incoming
student, simply use the following instructions. If you don’t have the books or a teacher who has the books then
see me at the beginning of school. (The books are also at RBC for a reasonable price…)
Please get online and check out the TMEA website, tmea.org, for All-State excerpts. The All-State
string etudes are currently available. This pertains to all wind, string, and percussion students. Begin
work on those excerpts. The Region excerpts and All-State Band etudes will be chosen toward the end
of July like usual.
One last thing; I would like to welcome all incoming students to the NESA Orchestra! You all had great
auditions! I look forward to the beautiful creativity that your hard work in the years to come will produce!
Have a great Summer, y’all!
Mark Twehues
If you need to contact me, email me at the school address, [email protected]. Or send a text to 210-2737162.
MUSICAL THEATER
MT Acting Web Page- http://northeastschooloftheartsmtacting.weebly.com/
MT Voice Web Page - http://northeastschooloftheartsmtvoice.weebly.com/
David Connelly – [email protected]; 210-860-2630
Jordan Bryant – [email protected]; 325-864-9172
Voice
MT Voice Assignment for the summer
Continue exploring your voice. Figure out how to create sounds you haven’t made before. Be
creative! Sing in front of the mirror, family, friends, and strangers. Learn a new way to memorize a
song. Sing outside. Sing and do Yoga or Tai Chi. Work on being more in tune with your vocal skills
than you were prior, and be consistent about your practice time.
Work on connecting to your diaphragm as you sing. Always make sure you are “hooked up” or
engaged with your core. Breathe low in your body. Sing in a lunge or squat position.
To prepare for Phantom: Work on singing legato! Watch opera singers on you-tube. Watch their
mouth, diaphragm, neck, and overall posture. Watch how they take breaths. Close your eyes and
analyze the sound. Watch the 20th anniversary live from Royal Albert Hall version. The singers in this
production have solid technique. I am putting additional vocalizes on my teacher web. Do these every
day. You cannot help but improve if you are doing these exercises daily.
***If you are participating in a Summer Program, record your individual lessons or master classes,
and journal everyday about your experiences.
Vocal Pedagogy 4:
Prepare your Portfolio over the summer. Template will be posted to the MT Facebook page. Begin
journaling about your vocal progress and practice time. Vocalize every day!
Vocal Pedagogy 3:
Purchase How to Audition for the Musical Theatre: A Step-By-Step Guide to Effective Preparation and read it.
Use sticky notes or tabs to make note of things as you read. Continue to balance out your repertoire
list, and learn at least 3 new musical theater pieces that you feel would be good for your type.
Vocalize every day!
Vocal Pedagogy 2:
Continue journaling your practice times. Work on building your repertoire. Make vocal exercise a part
of your daily routine. Watch You-tube videos of singers and learn at least 3 new pieces that fit your
range. If you are still struggling with note-names or key signatures, make flashcards and study with a
friend!
Vocal Pedagogy I & all new MTs
Purchase a binder with dividers to become your MT Voice notebook. Put copies of the songs you
have learned or used for auditions with a repertoire list. If you have any music theory notes from choir
or previous music teachers, please add this to your notebook.
Acting
LIVE.
Your life provides the material you draw from as a performing artist. Read; go to museums; hike;
draw; paint; try something that scares you; observe; study some history; eat something new; connect
to the world around you. Get outside the theater.
Acting 4:
Purchase Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares," and plan to read the first chapter before returning to
school. (You are free to read as much of it as you’d like!) You can find the book in most local
bookstores, including Half-Price Books. Also, it's easily available through Amazon.com.
Audition Class:
Purchase Michael Shurtleff's "Audition" and read the intro and foreword for the first class. Again, it
is available in most local bookstores and through Amazon.
Acting 3:
Memorize and be prepared to perform the Prologue from "Romeo and Juliet" during our first classes
back. (“Two households, both alike in dignity…”)
Acting 2:
Your reading/viewing list is included in the MT handbook. I encourage you to do some/ much of this
work over the summer. You’ll thank yourself later!
Acting 1 & all new MTs
Join the NESA MT Facebook page. (Parents too! – If you are a parent with a different last night than
your MT child, please email us to let us know you will be making a friend request.)
ALL MTs:
Review the 2016/17 MT Handbook, which will be updated and posted to the MT Facebook page by
August 1.
MT Season Audition Information
All MTs are required to attend season auditions. Phantom of the Opera and our winter, TBA show
#2 will be cast from these auditions. Forbidden Broadway, our final production, will be cast in the
second semester. All NESA students are eligible to audition for these shows. The audition
schedule is as follows:
Prepared Auditions = A 32 Bar Song (1 minute) + a Contemporary Monologue that is under 2 minutes
in length. Your song and monologue should contrast with each other. That is, the song serious, your
monologue light/comic, or vice versa.
Season Audition Times:
Wednesday, Aug. 10
Thursday, Aug. 11
3 - 6 pm
3 - 6 pm
Auditorium Stage
Auditorium Stage
CALL-IN TIME FOR A 4 MINUTE AUDITION SLOT: On Monday, August 8, from 1 – 4 p.m., students may
call 210-356-1036 to schedule an audition. That’s 210-356-1036. Remember 210-356-1036.
Students may sign up for a time slot in person beginning Tuesday, August 11 at 10 a.m. in the
Theater Lobby.
The following rules apply for calling-in to schedule an audition appointment:
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If the line is busy, do not attempt to leave a message. Call back until you get through.
Do Not Call the main NESA number of 210-356-1033 and bug Ms. Yolanda!!!
Audition slots will be filled sequentially, meaning you will be assigned the earliest available time.
If you need to arrange a specific time (early/late/one day or the other), come in and sign up
personally on Tuesday, and keep track of your time. (Write it down! Don’t lose it!) On Monday, an
MT alumnus will be taking calls. This person will not mess around with scheduling conflicts. You
will need to accept the time given to you when you call in.
Write down your appointment time and avoid bothering Ms. Yolanda in the NESA office later
because you’ve forgotten the time you were told.
Do Not Call the main NESA number of 356-1033 and bug Ms. Yolanda!!!
You may not call at any other time to arrange an audition slot.
Did I mention that you MUST NOT CALL 356-1033 and bug Ms. Yolanda??!!!!!
CALL BACK INFO:
All callbacks in room 512
Sun. 8/14
Callbacks for Phantom posted on MT Facebook page
Mon. 8/15
4 – 6 pm
Dance audition for Phantom on stage
All MTs required to attend.
Callbacks for Show #2 posted.
Tues. 8/16
4 – 7 pm
Callbacks for Phantom
Weds. 8/17
4 – 7 pm
Callbacks for Show #2
Thurs. 8/18
4 – 7 pm
Possible 2nd Callbacks for either show
Mon. 8/22
4:15 – 6:30 pm
Phantom rehearsals begin, Room 512
Note concerning Phantom costume fees:
Student costume fees for Phantom of the Opera will be higher than usual. Due to rental prices
and multiple costume needs for featured characters and primary dancers, fees will reach $200.
Students and families may want to plan accordingly.
Contact Mr. Connelly at [email protected], or text/call 210-860-2630, if you have
questions.
MTs - Here’s what you’ll need for your dance class:
NON-DANCE MAJOR ATTIRE
Black jazz pants, leggings, or fitted sweat pants, fitted T-shirt or leotard (ladies), black split-soled jazz
shoes. Your midriff must be covered for dance class. Men will need to purchase and wear a dance
belt.
DANCE INTENSITY
Dance Intensity is a wonderful opportunity to start off your year or career at NESA!
Dance Intensity is a two-day dance workshop, optional for musical theatre majors filled with
technique, leaps and turns, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, musical theatre and Hip-Hop!
When?
August 5, 2016
8:00am-3:30pm
Meet in the theatre at 7:45am
Where?
Roosevelt High School
5110 Walzem Road
San Antonio, TX 78218
August 6, 2016
8:00am-3:00pm
Bring your $65.00 check payable to Dance Intensity the first day of the workshop.
Reminder: You will need to bring a sack lunch and plenty of water to Dance Intensity.
Email Mrs. Gresham to register! [email protected]
Facebook
Become friends with NESA Dance and stay up to date with the dance department!
Search: [email protected] and send a friend request to Nesa Dance.
TECHNICAL THEATER
Mark Ayers – [email protected]
Tech Web Page: http://northeastschooloftheartstech.weebly.com/
Tech majors should check into the Tech web page for summer assignment info.
VISUAL ART
Jennifer Janak – 210-827-2033
To the NESA Visual Art Students: It has been a great year for all. Lots of gold keys from scholastic, lots of top
winners at VASE, lots of work for the plays, and the list goes on. I have loved seeing how each of you develop
with your art. For those that are going off to a pre-college program, work a lot because you will be able to use it in
your portfolio at NPD.
For those that are staying here in SA. Go to Coppini Art Academy as much as you can. The more you draw that figure
the better your work will become all around. The figure is the hardest thing to conquer. But once you get it, keep
practicing it always. It is those fundamental skills that will get you to the top.
If you need any answers to summer work questions, you all have my number so give me a call or text.
Remember, summer work is due August 24, 2016. First show is September 2, 2016. We start off the NESA Season for
the year…… Make it count and get it done. Juniors and Seniors, National Portfolio Day is October 1, 2016 in Houston,
Texas. Make is count, you only get one time to make a good impression.
Stay focused, work hard and see you all in August.
The “Phantom of the Opera” is upon us. There is much to do. I will be contacting some of you over the summer to see if
we can start working on masks for one of the scenes. It will be late July or very early August. Start watching it and
thinking about mask, designs, and how to develop them.
Have a great productive artistic summer!!!!!!!!!!
You Know My Number if you need something…
Janak
210-827-2033
NESA VISUAL ARTS SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS – 2016-2017
Read, top to bottom, print out and do the work.
Sketchbooks/journals are done by everyone. Work in them all summer. It should be filled up by the time summer is
over. You should be drawing every day, write in it every day, also plan your summer assignments in it, so one can see
your thought process.
First NESA Visual Art First Friday Show will take place September 2, 2016 at the J & M Studio at the Blue Star
Contemporary Art Complex, Bldg, B upstairs.
The summer work will be juried for the First Friday Show. That means someone will look at your work, then pick out
the best pieces, so maybe one or all will be in the first show of the year.
The 5 C's of great pieces of work are:
Composition, Content, Contrast, Creativity, Craftsmanship The 5 C's that must be in each piece of work you do.
Incoming Freshman assignments:
size you need to work in is 18" x 24 . Do not
get larger than that, nor smaller than that. The only thing you can use is an ebony pencil or pencils with different leads. The softer
the lead, the darker the values will be. The harder the lead, the beginning drawing can be done with them, then advancing to the
softer leads for stronger values. Go get an ebony or several different pencils with different leads. The choice is yours. Always
go from light to dark. All work has to be done from direct observation. That means you have to be looking at what you are drawing
at all times. Do Not Forget to work in your sketchbook/journal also. Keep track of your summer through your sketchbook. Journal
in it.
Draw large, fill up your paper. It takes a long time to do a great drawing. Work from edge to edge of your paper. Yes, that means
you will be drawing larger than you ever have. Look for detail and make it count within your work. You will have 7 works at the
beginning of school. Due August 24, 2016. Class critiques will start August 25, 2016
Critiques are all about showing your work. To discuss what is good and what one needs to improve on. One does not
grow in their art if they do not discuss it, look at it and work on skills. It is an ongoing thing. Get use to it.
1. Find a bicycle. Draw part of it, Get close to an area of the bike. Draw it huge. Find an interesting angle, draw it.
have a bike, find someone that does. Detail, detail, detail.
If you do not
2. A part of your bedroom with all of the junk you see. Detail, look for it.
3. Some place outside - around your house, the back yard, the dog playing, cats laying around, family members doing a barbecue,
party, here is a list of just some ideas that you can pick, figure it out. Details and more when drawing
4. A pile of shoes, that means at least 6 or more in the pile that you are going to draw. Draw large, draw the detail, work from
direct observation, again look for detail when you are drawing.
5. Draw a self portrait. Look in a mirror, or go to the bathroom and look in that mirror. Draw what you see.
6. Create a work about how to make and eat a peanut butter sandwich. Detail look for it.
7. Create a piece of work on your own. Think about composition, drawing large, content, craftsmanship and contrast.
Record this information in your sketchbook: Look up the following artist: Read about them and study their work,
Thomas Hart Benton, Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Jacob Lawrence, Edward Hopper. How are they alike, how
are they different: Styles, choices of color, the list goes on…………….
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS 2016 NESA VA’S
WORK DUE August 24, 2016
Sophomores:
Work needs to be between 18" x 24" to 24" x 36" remember to work from direct
observation. You will be doing and completing 10 works for the summer assignments. Try to start going to Coppini Art
Academy on Wednesday and Thursdays to work with the figure. The more you do, the better you get.
1. Draw the inside of something: your shoes, pockets, the inside of your purse, the inside of your backpack, something you find
interesting. Media is your choice. Draw that detail, look for it. Look for it even when you think you have seen it.
2. Draw what is under your kitchen sink. Use an ebony when doing this drawing. Details are important.
3. Go downtown and draw what you see from one of the streets of San Antonio.
4. Do a self portrait without you being in it. Pick your content and do a piece of work. Remember the 5 C's when putting your
work together.
5. Find a song from Phantom Of The Opera that you want to illustrate.
6. Figure out a pattern, 6 x 6 inches. Color or in Black and white, repeat it 9 times, the same pattern over and over until it fills the
paper. The more complex the more interesting, but then keep in mind, the more complex the more busy it will look. Find the
balance.
7. Draw the inside of your kitchen. Something needs to be going on in it, cooking, gathering to talk, etc. Figure it out. It must
have activity of something.
8. Create something using an old map.
9. Work with only the items you find in your pantry. Create a piece of work about them.
10. Create a work of your choice.
Sophomores: look up and study these artist and their works: what can you learn from them? Record this in your sketchbook.
Charles Burchfield, Thomas Hart Benton, Jacob Lawrence, Edward Hopper, Sandy Skogland
Juniors:
work can be no smaller than 18" x 24" and no larger than 24" x 36" Keep in mind that you need to work
from direct observation. NPD is Oct 1, 2016 in Houston, Texas
GO TO COPPINI THIS SUMMER, DO LOTS OF FIGURE DRAWING. If you cannot go to Coppini then draw people who will
model for you, your mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, friends, the list goes on. Watch those proportions, measure,
measure, measure. You will need these 10 pieces of work for NPD. Remember you only have one time to make a good
impression.
1. Glass jars, glasses, anything made of glass -- Put things in it, liquids, rocks, bones, dried stuff, set it up in a good
compositional still-life and proceed to draw it. Use charcoal, you might also need white charcoal for highlights and colored paper.
If you do not have colored paper, then stain some with tea.
2. Turn yourself into a mechanical being, put yourself into some kind of environment, create a work of art. Do your research to
make it realistic looking. Pen and Ink, or pencil, colored pencil. Figure it out. Make it happen.
3. Find a song from Phantom of the Opera to illustrate. The choice is yours.
4. Draw a woman wearing a huge exciting hat. She needs to be in some kind of environment.
5. Draw an insect family portrait, such as you see of people in museums but it is of the insect family of your choice.
6. Lay on the floor – draw what you see from that eye level.
7. Draw showing the motion of something you see moving. Check out NUDE DESENDING the STAIRCASE BY Picasso. It
does not need to be a person. Or look at Charles Burchfield’s work, Thomas Hart Benton’s work. Some of their work shows things
in motion.
8. Draw 2 eggs frying and all that is around them, making this happen. Before, during, afterwards, etc if you so want.
9. Create something that shows the passage of time.
10. Create a work that you are just wanting to do.
Look Up the following artist. Record information about them in your sketchbook. Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield, Jacob
Lawrence, Georges Seurat, Sandy Skogland
Spend time at Coppini Art Academy, drawing and painting. It will make a difference also in what you do, the quality
and how much you will grow within your work.
Seniors: NPD is October 1, 2016 -
is just right down the road. Work size 18" x 24", 24" x 36" or bigger
if you want. Keep in mind though at NPD you carry your own work. They need to see the real deal.
Just keep in mind, VASE is size restricted and so is your AP quality portfolio pieces, which is 18" x 24" (Only your quality pieces are
restricted in size, once again I am stating this)
Spend time at Coppini this summer - spend time working in your sketchbook also. You will need this at NPD and later
on for college applications and possibly your AP Portfolio. That AP portfolio due date is closer than you think.
1. People's faces - catch someone yawning or laughing, something, do a drawing capturing a facial expression, a detailed
one. They also need to be in some kind of environment. Media of your choice.
2. Work only with things that are round. Create a piece that has only round items in it
3. Reflections - find things that reflect, either draw the reflections you see or decide what you want to be reflected in the
objects that you are looking at. Remember light is refracted in things. Be creative, think creative. LOOK LOOK and LOOK some
more, then draw. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
4. Work only with numbers. Create a piece of work, an image using numbers, make something into number shapes, do
something involving a numbers and more numbers.
5. Illustrate a song from Phantom of the Opera.
The choice is yours. Listen to the entire track before you decide.
6. Night time, it is dark but there are lights on, create a work around those lights and what you see in the night time around
street lights, flashlights, car lights, in the dark. Do some research.
7. Looking through the Key Hole:
work visually.
Draw the key hole and what you see beyond it.
This drawing has to be large otherwise it will not
8. Draw what you see from the rearview mirror of your car.
9. Take an old drawing or an old photo that you took. Crumple it up as if you are going to throw it away. Now put it
some place and draw it, plus what you see on the crumpled up paper.
10. Create a piece of work that you feel will fit into your concentration of your AP portfolio.
11. If you get this all done and want more work to complete, either keep creating what you want or see what the juniors are doing
and start on that list.
Find an artist you can relate to. Also look up the following artist, keep a log about them. Do this in your sketchbook. Vincent Van
Gogh, Jacob Lawrence, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield,
Your first nine weeks grades are a big part of your summer assignments.
Any questions call me. Have a great summer.
My cell number is 210-827-2033
Do not wait until two weeks before school starts to get this work done. It will
show and your grade will be failing if you do this. When school starts, NPD is
just 6 weeks away by then.
Also keep in mind your first nine weeks grades are effected by your summer work.
Other art options: Inspire Fine Art Center 210-829-5592, South West School of Art and of course, spend as much time as you can at
the Wednesday, Thursday evening open drawing sessions at Coppini working on the figure. Bring that work in also.
Find time to go to the museums: The McNay, The SAMA, The Whitte, the new Briscoe Western Museum or if you travel and happen
to be in a city, find their museums, go see them. Keep me posted about this.
SENIORS SENIORS SENIORS - Juniors Juniors Juniors....
NATONAL PORTFOLIO DAY IS COMING FAST... YOU ONLY HAVE ONE CHANCE TO MAKE THAT FIRST IMPRESSION COUNT TO THE
FULLEST.