Sketchbooks and Journeys

Sketchbooks and journeys, no matter how short or long, make excellent partners. Taking a sketchbook on a holiday, or a trip, can be a great way to familiarize yourself with what a sketchbook can be – you have plenty of time (ideally) to indulge in using your sketchbook, and plenty of inspiration (hopefully!) around you. [...]

Specifically Drawing

Marsha Balaeva http://www.marshabalaeva.com Whilst a whole range of activities take place in sketchbooks, sketchboks are still the perfect place of course to nurture approaches to drawing. In addition to the AccessArt drawing resources here, the following external links might prove useful. If you would like to add your resources to this list pls contact us. Tracey: Contemporary [...]

Sketchbooks and Nerves – The Scrappy Sketchbook

“I feel nervous drawing in it” and “The white space is a problem for me…” are two comments we hear time and again from users who find sketchbooks intimidating. Sketchbook Space designed the Scrappy Sketchbook to encourage adults to feel at ease. The Scrappy Sketchbook evolved as a combination of three different trains of thought: [...]

Vince Laws: Poet

I use sketchbooks first to get my text finalised, and then to brainstorm how I might present a poem visually, what I might leave out, what form would best suit the poem’s content? Avalanche has been made into a painting, a hanging, a picture book, and is part of a radio play. Why is Pride [...]

Sketchbooks to Encourage Enquiry Based Learning

Frances Hatch http://www.franceshatch.co.uk/ Sketchbooks are an ideal tool to encourage learners to become actively involved in learning as a process. There are times when working in your sketchbook is a fluid and natural process. At other times, you may want to purposefully prompt yourself, and take your thinking/sketchbook work to another level. Asking questions as [...]

Teachers Using Sketchbooks

Linda Gomez, Aquatone Dog, www.lindagomez.co.uk We just wanted to add a request aimed at those who are in the priviledged position of leading, guiding or facilitating others. We’d like to encourage you to take the opportunity to lead by example, by using sketchbooks yourselves. All the benefits outlined in this site apply equally to leaders, [...]

Imagine…

A group of adult walks in to a room, one by one. They take off their coats, put their bags over their chairs, sit down. There’s a bit of talk, not much, and everyone waits for the tutor to run the show… Or… A group of adult walks into a room, one by one. Each [...]

Extending Sketchbooks – Or “turning your sketchbook into a bag”

Think about tools which can extend your how and when you use sketchbooks: Digital cameras to produce and record; Tools to cut and shape; Materials to fasten; Containers to hold and collect; And think about how the “sketchbook-habit” can be applied to other tools: The iphone has a Brushes app. Can your iphone be your [...]

Sketchbooks and Speed

This module is about how we can encourage learners to see sketchbooks as a place to experiment freely. We all have preconceptions about how what our sketchbook pages should look like – some people get a lot of enjoyment from a certain aesthetic, but often a believe that sketchbooks should look perfect – or contain [...]

Think Sketchbook – Sketchbook Space in Print

We’re pleased to announce that you can now download the Sketchbook Space resources in the form of a PDF, or buy a hardback printed copy. Think Sketchbook provides a more tangible way for facilitators, teachers, creative practitioners and other users to access the resources on Sketchbook Space, plus resources taken from Sketchbook in Schools. The [...]

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