This web site began as a presentation on the sketchbook for teachers, but before that it began when many volumes of my stuff diary/journal/scrapbook sketchbook were completed. I started to look at sketchbooks with a new understanding. I never enjoyed the sketchbook before and never really made use of sketchbooks. All of the sketches and thinking through for painting, or for my other art works, were on random pieces of paper, sometimes from another sketch. So, to explain, I began to ask myself,
how have artists used the sketchbook, and what has the sketchbook been for artists in the past? What can it be for artists, students, and teachers today?
The sketchbooks that are chosen are not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but to show different ways of thinking, and seeing, by many artists and of course, because they are mostly on the internet (with copyright protection - with permissions sought).
In short, I hope to free up the sketchbook from mundane exercises and still meet curriculum requirements. Hopefully the web site will inspire wi(l)der uses for the sketchbook in visual arts classrooms.
This web site and all images are for education purposes only.
To begin, click on any image.
How do artist's use the sketchbook? (.pdf handout)
