Portfolio Review

Every student in the art club was required to submit a recent drawing. This assignment is similiar to a portfolio review that a professional artist or college artist might have to give.
A portfolio is like an audition for a performer.  A singer would have to sing a song; an artist brings his or her best recent drawings. We collectively looked at each drawing and critiqued it.  I always ask questions, "Did you follow the directions?" "Did you draw the object life-size?".  Life-size was not a requirement, but it is a good thing for learning artists to be critical of.  "Did you draw this pear bigger or smaller than the real pear you had?"

Having the real object to observe made a true difference in the quality of the students drawings.  It was clear from the drawings which students had a real vegetable or fruit to draw.