You DO have permission: from educationalists, creative practitioners, National Curriculum even Ofsted…
Sketchbooks as places to practice skills... The aim: To build skills through experience
And develop personality…
“I Don’t Want To Know Where I’m Going…” Anna Bjerger, Painter
Sketchbooks as places where you can set yourself challenges, and discover... The aim: To build trust in creative process (and your role in that)
Sketchbooks are places that can be made “safe” (by not being marked, by validating a variety of ways of working in them, by providing a loose structure or framework), so that children feel safe to “not know”.
Sketchbooks as places to nurture ownership of learning The Aim: To engage & enable children to find their own way
Children need to be given permission to “own” their sketchbooks. Sketchbooks should put children right at their centre of their own learning.
Sketchbooks as places in which to explore and experiment The Aim: To feel comfortably taking creative risks
Sketchbooks should be places where children feel they can fail, and are ok with that, OR discover something which wasn’t the intention of the teacher…
Elizabeth Dagger
Ink in a Concertina Sketchbook
Elizabeth Dagger
Sketchbook Painting Process
Sketchbooks as places to understand other people's work, and make your own creative response... The Aim: To interprete
Sketchbooks should empower children to reinvent – with the belief/knowledge that what they invent/create/contribute is every bit as valuable as the source of inspiration…
Sketchbooks as tools through which you can explore your space The Aim: To encourage curiosity, engagement and confidence in creative response
Sketchbooks can give pupils and teachers the opportunity to share perceptions and experiences and come together…
Travel Book Natsko Seki
Hear how Natsko finds inspiration as she walks around London
Architecture According to Pigeons
See Natsko's illustrations in this animation
Urban Sketching
How "urban sketching" works
Sketchbooks as "project places" to hold diverse elements together... The Aim: To nurture divergent thinking
Sketchbooks should be full of energy and momentum… Think “Sketchbook Day” to see just how much can be generated in one session, and how engaging nurtures outcome.
Sketchbooks as places for reflection The Aim: To understand your own processes and thinking
Sketchbooks as tools to develop thinking skills – BUT: Enjoy and embrace the idiosyncratic nature of the language which emerges…
Louise Fletcher
Abstract Painter Louise Fletcher talks us through how she uses her sketchbooks to develop ideas for paintings
Developing Thinking Skills
