Sketchbooks!

The sketchbook

An artist’s sketchbook is a bound book with blank pages that artists use to keep visual records of observations, plans for future art projects, ideas and themes with which they are interested, and

verbal, often personal, reflections. Artists may incorporate some or all of these uses into their personal sketchbooks in order to best suit

their needs as an artist.

Sketchbooks

• BUT… Sketchbooks aren’t just for artists! Many people keep “idea journals” where they jot down thoughts, sketch ideas, or write to occupy their time. Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison both kept books where they designed, sketched, wrote, and played with their ideas!

Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

Frida Kahlo

• Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and is perhaps best known for her self-portraits. Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Sketchbook intro

• You will be given various sketchbook assignments throughout the year.

• You will be in charge of working on them during your free time in class (ie: if you are finished early)

• I will set aside certain days to work on them and you will also be expected to work on these sketches outside of school if you cannot finish them in class.

Sketchbook #1• TO DO:• You will choose one art journal assignment. You may do it in

class, if you are finished early, work on it at home, or come and work after school.

• You may work in any style and you can spend as much time as you want on it (as long as I can see the effort you have put forth)

• You may interpret it in ANY WAY you like. The “wackier-“ the better!

• You may use any media: pencil, charcoal, oil pastel, paint, chalk, mixed media, collage, photography, crayons, markers, pen and ink, anything that makes a mark......

Expectations….• NOTE: By the end of Term 1 you should have 4 entries. • You will be graded!!! You will get an “A” if…..• 1. You put your WHOLE heart and soul into it. In other words: Invest yourself in the

idea,• 2. You fill a minimum of one or more whole pages for each entry, • 3. You experiment with different media. Check out materials if you need to, • 4. You label the assignment, and• 5. You have the minimum amount of entries. You will have 4 for this term.

• 1. Creativity: the choices you make in subject matter and the way you choose to portray it.

• 2. Your effort: Making the piece the BEST it can be• 3. Conscious planning of the whole page, including background

Sketchbooks will be graded on creativity! Choose one idea below and use it as your

jumping off point…

• Draw a 5 inch square of a feather or a dollar bill under a magnifying glass (include the magnifying glass).

• Portrait of yourself without you in it• Illustrate your favorite poem or song• Draw an object melting or morphing into

something else