This document provides a worksheet for students in upper-level studio art courses to plan out projects to complete within a semester. It instructs students to develop a cohesive body of work connecting to pieces created in other media. The worksheet prompts students to describe their proposed project's details, required technical and formal skills, conceptual content, and criteria for evaluating success. It emphasizes how technique, form, and content should overlap and influence each other. Students are asked to discuss their proposal with their professor before completing the project and documentation form.

1. Studio Research Project
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Fill out this worksheet and discuss it with your professor. Needto include this form on your website.
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In upper level studio courses, students should be self-directed in their scholarly and creative
production. Each student must develop a plan for completing one or more projects within the semester.
These projects should result in gallery-ready, finished pieces.
Because this is an upper-level course, you should be thinking about developing a cohesive body of
work. The work made in this course should have some formal, technical or conceptual connection with
other work you have created, including work in other media. You may want to address this idea in your
statement.
Use the appropriate forms to plan and document projects completed in upper level studio art courses
(300 and 400 level courses). First, fill out the worksheet to help you plan what you’re going to do.
Then complete the work. Then fill out the Documentation Sheet to record what you did. Each student
may complete a number of projects in each course, depending on the complexity and scope of the
projects.
Definitions: there is a fair amount of debate over how to define various terms in art. The University of
Rio Grande Art Department is using these definitions:
Technique: How a piece of artwork is made (cyanotype, digital photo,
drawing, woodcarving, scraffito, etc.)
Form: What a piece of art looks like (describes color, light, texture, shape,
composition, balance, rhythm, etc.)
Content (or concept): What a piece of art means (emotional or
psychological content, narrative, allegory, satire, irony, commentary, etc)
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Student Name: Ledesma, John Dominic E.
Course: BFA-3B
Description of Proposed Project (include the following information: Number of Pieces, Size of
Finished Work, Materials Used, Color, Surface, Imagery, etc)
A simple black outline of the sigil of House Stark, with a few liberties in between
Technical Skills (describe what technical skills you will need to learn to complete this project. Do you
need to learn to do a sugar life aquatint, to make a screen frame, or expose liquid light? Do you need to
learn how to use PHP includes or HDR photography?):

2. The Technical skills were simple strokes from brushes to create the overall outline
INSERT TECHNICAL SKILLS OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
Formal Skills (describe formal skills necessary for completion of this project. Do you need to learn
more about how three-point perspective works, or foreshortening of the human form? Do you need to
learn how to balance patterns and textures in a painting, or to make a ceramic mug more “elegant”).
The Formal skills involved were simple skills in painting.
INSERT FORMAL SKILLS OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
Conceptual Content (What does this project mean? Are you trying to reference a political event, or a
philosophical concept? Are you relating to a personal memory, and trying to evoke certain feelings in
the viewer? Is the piece supposed to be funny and ironic, or menacing and somber?)
I've always been an “honorable” man and I've had quite the trouble of finding a symbol that suits me
well. When the show “Game of Thrones” appeared along with the houses and what they stood for I
quickly found my stamp. The sigil of House Stark, honorable duty-bound and a piece for good, hence I
relate to their struggles and mishalves the most. Watch the show, I highly recommend it.
INSERT CONCEPTUAL CONTENT OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
Think about how these three elements (form, content and technique) overlap and influence one
another. If your content is whimsical and light, think about how technical and formal elements
contradict or support that content. For instance, making your artwork out of concrete and painting it
black will probably not make the viewer think “whimsical and light”. Certain techniques carry formal
and conceptual connotations. Woodcuts almost always look a little “chunky”, with heavy patterning,
and (especially when printed in black) a strong, heavy feel. Quilts are usually seen as feminine, bronze
casting typically feels more masculine, and photography is fairly neutral. Etchings are “old-fashioned”
and web animation is contemporary. Think about how all of these interact when working on your
project proposal.
How should the success of this project be evaluated?
Cleanliness 25%
Overall appearance 50%
Symbolism 25%
INSERT CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
What resources will you need to complete this project (books, faculty lessons, outside lessons,
materials, tools, etc)?
This project will be completed on:

3. Include several images of sketches involved with this project here:
NOW DISCUSS THIS WITH YOUR PROFESSOR!!
When you have completed the project, fill out the Studio Research Project Documentation Form
and include it on your softcopy.
Ref: http://www.rio.edu/fine-arts/Studio-Research-Projects.cfm