IB Painting and Drawing Summer Assignment 2011-12

Summer research journal ideas. You should try to have at least 15 pages of entries by your return to school. Below are suggestions that you might want to follow. You are not limited by the suggestions but you should attend to those marked by *.

Write a personal/artist statement.*

a.	Describe what you feel are your strengths and weaknesses in art at this point in your life.
b.	What do you hope to accomplish by studying art?
c.	What artist or time period do you most admire and why?

Do some entries on a few artists of your choice.*

Include personal information, images and personal reactions to the artist and his/her work. You should try to choose at least one artist from the present and one from the past. Cite your work. If you got information from a museum website, a book or video, include the SOURCE of your information. This is one of the things IB finds very important.

Add information on a gallery, sculpture garden, museum, gift shop, or specialty shop that you visit this summer.*

Try to include images, brochures, postcards, ads. Don’t just slide a few postcards into your journal. Paste them in and write your reaction to the work, your experience meeting the artist, or what interests you about these postcards that you chose.

Put in a reaction to some print images either photography or advertising images that you find interesting—in words and/or in a drawing.

Add a reaction to the artistic quality, not the story line of a film you see this summer.

Try to find a way to describe things like the lighting, colors, tempo, vantage point of poignant scenes, set decoration and/or costuming.

Create a design for something you would like to make in your medium—be creative.