Sketchbook Resources for Teachers & Pupils
AccessArt ran a highly successful Esmee-Fairbairn funded project called Sketchbooks in Schools, during which AccessArt and a number of sketchbook “advocates” worked with schools across England to help introduce, embed and develop sketchbook use in their schools. As a result of this project a large number of resources were created aimed at teachers of all key stages.
This page has been designed to make it easier to navigate through the resources available, via teaching pathways.
Sketchbook Handling Exhibition at the AccessArt Sketchbook Conference, Cambridge 2011
Developing sketchbook use in your school requires a certain level of commitment. We hope teachers can invest time in these resources as a form of CPD, and the teaching pathways described below should help that journey.
If you would like to discuss the possibility of AccessArt delivering an INSET session to help develop sketch books in your school or cluster please email here or call 01223 262134.
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Resources which introduce the idea of sketchbooks to pupils and teachers
- What Kind of Activities Take Place in a Sketchbook?
- What Makes Keeping a Sketchbook so rewarding?
- Sketchbooks as a Tool to Enable Personalised Learning
- When to use Sketchbooks
- What’s in a Name?
- What do Primary Sketchbooks Look Like?
Resources which explore the idea of making sketchbooks to pupils and teachers
- Simple Folded
- Simple Stapled
- Elastic Band Sketchbook
- Hole Punch Sketchbook
- Sewn Signature Sketchbook
- Creative Sketchbooks
- Ownership of Learning, Sketchbooks and Museums
Resources which share sketchbook exercises and approaches
- Introducing Sketchbooks: Making a Washing Line Sketchbook
- Making Room for Sketchbooks and Getting in the Sketchbook Habit
- Ideas for Working in a Sketchbook: 10 x ten minute exercises
- Shared Sketchbook Inspired by Words
- Drawing Speed
- Working in Sketchbooks: Staring with Magazine Imagery
- 4 Sketchbooks Exercises Shared by a Textile Artist
- Doodle Ball: a 3-D Drawing Exercise
- Drawing and Composition
- Sketchbook Icebreaker by Jo Blaker
- Dealing with Mistakes
Resources which promote reflection and critical thinking skills
Seeing sketchbooks
- Sketchbooks: An Active Way to Display
- Sharing Sketchbooks Made at the Sketchbook Conference 2011
- Emma Davies - an Artist’s Sketchbook
- Jo Blaker – an Artist’s Sketchbook
- Yumi Okuda – an Illustrator’s Sketchbook
- Isabella Whitworth – a Textile Artist’s Sketchbook
- Sarah Lovett – Sketchbook of a Set Designer
- Gemma Longbottom – an Animator’s Sketchbook
- Rob Gill – an Illustrator’s Sketchbook
- Debbie Greenaway – an Artist’s/Printmaker’s Sketchbook
- Felix Liebig – a “Story-Telling Architect”
- Jonathan Ford – a Sculptor’s Sketchbook
- What do Primary Sketchbooks Look Like?
Resources which share best sketchbook teaching practice
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[...] Developing Your Sketchbook is a great page on the AccessArt website. It is the result of a project in schools called Sketchbooks in Schools, funded by Esmee-Fairbairne,. from the project AccessArt have then developed a series of useful tools around sketchbooking. It is a fab resource for artists and makers. It is primarily set out for teachers and those involved in education, but it is interesting for makers and artist to revisit how they use their own sketchbooks. [...]