Jocelyn Zavala-Garcia AP Scoring Activity

Inquiry: 3 

The artist guides us and explains their way of thinking, and the process their thinking has gone through with time in their written evidence. They explain their use of colors, such as warm colors for the heat, and explains their choice of canvas and the reason for changing it, not just simply stating it. Along with this, it explains the amount of references used, and explains stylistic choices that will have an impact on their artistic choices later on, such as the choice using gravity defying hairstyle, and also explains the reason why they stray away from the theme they have in all their pieces. 

Practice, Experimentation, and Revision: 3 

The artist shows experimentation and practice through their explanation in the written evidence, as well as the art pieces, when they choose the canvas they paint on after finding out that it works best for their brushes stroke work. Such as going from canvas to masonite board. We also see that along the way, they stated experimenting with African hairstyles and the changes, a revision that shows cultural thinking. We also have images that are collages of process pictures as well as the final piece, which us the thought process and little changes of details. 

Materials, Processes, and Ideas: 3 

The artist clearly used visual relationship between all of their artwork, as there is a focus on African culture, portraits, and bright colors. There are also many saturated colors and interesting brush strokes. The materials are once again similar and show unity, as acrylic paint is used on all of them, and many are on either canvas or masonite board. When the artist choice to use a unique layout format such as 36 by 12 inches, they made sure to include more of this format so there would be synthesis. 

2D/3D/Drawing Art and Design: 3

This artist definitely had advanced drawing and 2D skills, relating to painting. They knew how to to work the shading of the human face, making them all look realistic despite not always having the human skin color. The sketches in the process photos show great proportions despite there being hard poses to draw. There is a lot of detail both in the backgrounds and in the clothing. There is a use of emphasis on color, focusing on certain colors in each piece, some being solely monochromatic. 

Selected Works:

Overall Score: 4 

Rationale : I would personally give these selected works a score of 4, despite College Board giving them a 3. They showed good drawing skills, especially when drawing their trees. They focused on perspective, value, and line. They made sure to thin out the branches on the trees instead of making them all the same thickness. However, they did not show advanced skills because the boat in the third piece seems flat and the background is very simple. I also think that they did show visual relationships among materials, processes and ideas. Throughout all of the works we see that the 'frame' of all of them looks burnt and smokey, which adds something interesting to the piece. I also see unity in their materials with ink, calligraphy pens, and candles. I can also see that all of these pieces had a unifying idea having to do with grandma and nature. However, the last work draws away from the idea of trees clearly presented in the first two works and has a different color to the paper as well as the burn effect, which takes away from the synthesis of all of them. Finally, their written evidence does identify materials, processes and ideas. They explain the relation between the artwork and their grandma, but they could have gone greater into detail about the disease and why it had meaning to them. Also, the grammar is not perfect, forgetting to include words into the written description. They said "I focused on trip..", which lacks professionalism. The materials and processes are simply copy and pasted, having the exact same wording, which may show lack of effort but also unity.