The document provides instructions for 16 sketchbook assignments that students in Mrs. Nelson's visual arts class must complete by specific due dates. The assignments include drawing geometric shapes with shading and shadows, drawing shoes, designing a color wheel, illustrating quotations, creating layered patterns with lines, designing clothing, making collages using single-color magazine images, drawing observational drawings of household objects, designing fonts, drawing words in different styles, creating icons representing the school's values, drawing melting objects, making cartoony monsters from watercolor paintings, cutting and drawing composite images, and combining drawings of different animals or objects.

1. Visual Arts
Mrs. Nelson
SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENTS 2012-13
Directions: Select Assignment and look at examples. See Due Dates Below.
Quarter 1: Complete 5 sketchbook Assignments by: Wednesday, October 10th
Quarter 2: Complete 5 more different Assignments by: Wednesday, Dec. 12th
1. Draw a cube, cone, sphere, and pyramid. Now shade your objects, choosing a
light source. Don’t forget to give your objects a cast shadow.
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2. Draw your shoe. Draw from whatever shoe you are wearing the day you
attempt this challenge.
3. Design your own color wheel. Look at example on the walls of the classroom.
4. Illustrate a famous saying/quotation.

2. 5. Draw arrows criss-crossing your sketchbook page. Give them depth.
6. Starting at the corner of your sketchbook page fill it with different layers
of line and pattern (Remember your Zentangles!!!)
7. Design an article of clothing (shoes, hat, t-shirt, dress, suit, jacket) that you
would like. Be sure to think of color and pattern.
8. Make a dream like collage using magazine images in one color. Ex: a collage of
just blue things.
9. Find an object of interest inside your house or art room. Create an
observational drawing of it.

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10. Design your own font (letter design) of this year’s theme: Building Respect.
Ex. BUILDING RESPECT
11. Choose any word (Make sure its appropriate!!!) Draw it in a minimum of three
different fonts or lettering. EX:
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12. The marks of a Holy Cross Education are : Information (a flame), Formation
(a hand), and Transformation (a heart), design your own interpretations of
these icons. In other words use your sketchbooks design you own flame,
hand, and heart icons.
13. Draw an object melting.
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14. Take watercolor paint and dab a little bit on your paper. Blow on it so the paint
spreads. Let this dry. Then using a pen create a cartoony monster from it.

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15. Cut out and collage part of an image in your sketchbook. Then draw the rest
of it.
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16. Create a drawing combining two things together. This can be an animal with
anther animal, or animal with an object, etc.
1. "Directional Lines" Unlike the expressive, directional lines are very precise.
Lines should all be the same thickness. These lines look as if they are bending and
overlapping. This is not "free" like expressive lines) but calculated constant, and
even.
• Start anywhere on your paper. Move in a certain direction. stop and begin in
a new direction . Keep lines in a group the same distance apart.