Below are examples of Concentrations from all Portfolio types made by Mepham A.P. Artists class of 2009. They are as displayed just as they will be seen from the A.P. College Board Website along side their concentration statements.
Examples of Drawing Concentrations:
Portraits as described through Layering. (Literal layering of figures evolving into experimental layering of materials (paper, acetate, paint etc,) to reveal the layers of personality and character found within a portrait.
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Works By Rachel Cutler
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My concentration is titled "It was just a dream", the dreamer reinterprets the characters in her life and places them in the context of her mind. I apply each mark with an energetic stroke of the brush that dances around the page creating direction, rhythm and form. I helped to express the mood of each painting and character by using deep colors. I used each painting as a way to deal with my own struggles in an attempt to find myself. My goal was to attempt to figure out who we are as people and figure out which is the better of the roads to choosing my paintings. In my journey of exploring all these issues I came closer in finding who I am and how to experiment with my ideas even more. In letting go I have become able to be more involved in what I am creating. I envisioned myself in the shoes of those I painted and brought out what I saw. As it progressed for me it became more experimental and involuntary I created my works. My paintings would speak to me and pushed me to create something new and exciting. As I would make more pieces it would become larger and have greater mood.
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Works By Talon Rubino
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By Joanna Wu
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Examples of 2-D Concentrations:
By Mark Domiczek
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By Jimmy Burns
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Coming from German descent I have been privileged enough to visit to Germany a number of times giving me a new perspective on a new way of life. Typically, my perception of Germany has been pristine and orderly but I was compelled to stop when spotting photograph the site of abandoned buildings. I have always been interested in architecture, texture, and age photographing this site enables me to combine all my loves into my concentration.
I have always been obsessed with the form of wrinkles and texture. In fact, I began the year planning to submit a drawing portfolio and had rendered form of stumps, sponges, crumpled up paper, and anything I could get my hands on. However, during my trip to Germany I was compelled by a site of abandoned houses (that was so different from my normal perception of the country), that I had to stop and photograph it. At the site I found disregarded objects left surrounding the houses, again I was enamored by the texture, age, and depletion of the environment so much so that I switched to a 2D portfolio.
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By Kristen Bauer
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My concentration visually represents a play on words. I chose to portray clichés in a literal way through a combination of text and images. In this way I was able to challenge myself conceptually as well as compositionally and show how artwork can speak to an audience with or without words. I hope that the work causes people to think and question what they often take for granted as true while still allowing them to relate to clichés that are frequently heard.
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By Aurora Parlagreco
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The Girl Who Lost Everything is a book that shows the progression a young girl’s life and how it was “turned upside down” by not cleaning her room. Watching the mess grow she began to lose the things that ultimately are most important to her, not only her favorite toy, but her relationship with her family as well. Children illustrations gave me the opportunity to combine my background and love for fashion illustration and while exploring light and color.
As I became more invested in the story the characters and their world became more specific. The detail element began to directly relate to the characters personality. I grew attached to picking out the pattern of the skirt to the red barrel of monkeys hanging off her desk to the printed teacups and the graphic designs from every toy box and chinchilla food. Every element has been planned from mismatched clothes and the uneven bangs on Violet to her pet chinchilla attempting to escape the chaos.
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By Hannah Silver
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