1. AP ART TEST

2. THE AP TEST COSTS 93 DOLLARS YOU MUST PAY THIS ON TIME

3. The AP ART TEST CONSISTS OF 3 PARTS
BREADTH
QUALITY
CONCENTRATION

4. BREADTH=Range of Approaches (Breadth) — 12 digital images | 33
BREADTH=Range of Approaches (Breadth) — 12 digital images | 33.3% of portfolio score
Demonstrates understanding of drawing issues through a variety of works.
Must not include images of the work included in the Sustained Investigation section.

5. QUALITY=Selected Works (Quality) — 5 actual works (That you have to SEND IN) 33.3% of portfolio score
Includes works that exhibit the synthesis of form, technique, and content.
Works may come from the Sustained Investigation or Range of Approaches sections, but they do not have to.

6. CONCENTRATION= Sustained Investigation (Concentration) — 12 digital images | 33.3% of portfolio score
Create a body of works that demonstrates sustained investigation of a specific visual idea
Must not include images of the work included in the Range of Approaches section.

7. Good Ideas for concentration
Good ideas should show a sustained thought on a subject matter. Your concentration should not be the first thought that pops into your head. Here is a brief list that shows what sustained thought looks like:
The skeleton/bones put into before and after situations
Unusual environments
Masks (interpreted–how do we hide?)
War (inspired by a VietNam Vet,but grew to all conflicts)
Large close‐ups of insects that evolved into very graphic interpretations
Light ‐‐‐what is light?
Wings–how do we fly?
Water theme.Water as metaphor.
Fruits-- from their growth on trees through picking,processing,selling and consumption by people

8. Bad ideas for concentrations
These are bad because they do not show sustained thought-- they are a first response, knee jerk kind of solution. Your concentration should show sustained thought- they should show that you have tried to do something different. DO NOT try to show me sadness, depression or suicide by rendering big sloppy reflective tears and dripping blood. DO NOT show me the passage of time with a burned candle, dripping wax. Love should not be expressed with hearts. Happiness should not include balloons, rainbows, etc.
Portraits of emotions
People who shape me
Nature in general
Memories in general
shocking viewers with the bizarre (I HATE THIS-- ask me about how I feel about puppets)
surrealism
faces
flowers
Eyes (OH MY GOSH DO NOT DO THIS OR I WILL RIP MY OWN EYES OUT AND LET YOU DRAW MINE- BLEEDING ON THE TABLE)
Family and friends
Reflective surfaces
Illustration of my inner thoughts (me as a doormat, me as a puppet on a string , blah blah blah)
Moments I was happy (never)
Self portraits
music--(WITH MUSIC NOTES arrrgh!!)
Everyday life objects
goddess/myth
Different cultures (look! oh! they are different from me- but the same!!!)
guitars
reflections
Ideas of beauty (it’s great you love tattoos but if you think this is original, you are wrong)
dance

9. DO NOT
Submit other people’s work as your own
Use a photo on the internet as the basis for your work-- I check and this is a copyright/plagiarism issue
Depict a topic that is so complicated/convoluted that no one can understand it without reading your statement
Draw a subject matter that you are not good at drawing
Fold and roll your work
Turn in work on crappy paper
Turn in unfinished work
Turn in a bunch of stuff from elementary, junior high and high school
Copy anime characters- again, it is a copyright issue
IF YOU DO ANY OF THESE THINGS YOU WILL FAIL YOUR PORTFOLIO, I WILL BE MEAN AND YOU WILL BE EMBARRASSED. TRUST ME.

10. Sample portfolio link