THE Marker Project

After a couple meetings and a lot of thinking, Mr. Angelis and I came up with an outline of the project, the students would be able to choose out of two options. This is the outline we came up with:
"For this project you will have two choices, you can either choose to create a piece of artwork with mainly design-like qualities, or you can choose an approach more focused on a realistic and abstract piece of art. You will have to choose one of these and will have to choose a focus or topic which corresponds with your choice.

Design-like Approach
If you choose that you’re more into the design-like techniques that markers are great for, you’ll also have different criteria that we will grade you on. You want to try and create a piece of artwork that looks neat and almost as if it was printed. Choose some topic that you’re interested in and has design-like qualities, you can always ask us for help.

Abstract Approach
If you’re one of those people that enjoys abstract and realistic pieces of work, you’ll most likely want to go with the Abstract Approach to the marker project. The point is to go with “loose” lines and to really take it in almost any way you’d like. You can pick a topic or you can go with whatever you’re feeling like doing, just be aware of the rubric we have for this approach."

With this outline and general idea as to what we expected of them, we showed them the pictures I posted earlier and took questions. They seemed to understand what we were looking for pretty well and they started to come up with ideas and started planning out their work.