1. Sketchbooks Dan China www.danchina,net PS This presentation, more materials and links on website.

2. Sketchbooks Dan China www.danchina,net ‘engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design ’ ‘should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design’ ‘produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences’ ‘become proficient in drawing’ evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture about great artists, architects and designers in history

3. A sketchbook is?

4. A sketchbook is a place for creative play

8. Sketchbooks as artefact, or artist’s book.

13. Sketchbooks are where we can keep notes and references learning about art

15. Sketchbook as art exercise book

17. Amazing book by a primary school student

23. Sketchbook as scrapbook

24. Sketchbook for reflection

26. The next set of slides show how a hand made sketchbook was used during Arts Week. The work all revolved around this picture following the National Gallery picture in focus idea.

34. Sketchbooks for visual research

35. Gathering and presenting reference images.

36. Working hard to investigate ideas in some depth.

38. Working books, developing ideas, visual research

39. Sketchbook is a scrapbook for, notes, resources, images, ideas, colour schemes

40. Sketchbook used to plan in detail

42. Sketchbooks can be journals, simply recording ideas and memories

43. Sketchbook as journal

48. Sketchbooks can be: Journal, Visual diary Research book Drawings book Ideas book Artists book Scrapbook Ideas book

49. Sketchbooks can provide: A place to record information Something to plan with A quiet place to invent and create A place to practice skills A place to reflect on work and what has been learned

50. Sketchbooks can include: Drawings from observation, memory and imagination Notes, tests and experiments with things like colour, composition, texture, mark making. Photographs, text, images, diagrams. Found stuff like fabric, rubbings, paper Written notes throughout. Judgements, evaluations and assessments PS The new curriculum allows us to enjoy working with sketchbooks.