1. Artist Sketchbooks 1. Artists use a sketchbook entry to quickly sketch out several possible approaches to solving a design problem, choosing the best of those designs. 2. Sketchbooks can be used to record information to be referred to later. The sketchbook can be a place to "play"--to make designs, experiment with shapes and color combinations, etc.– 3. Artists do sometimes use the books to make some finished drawings. 4. A sketchbook can be a journal of creativity that may contain things other than drawings. Other artists throughout history have written and made collages in their sketchbooks. - SKETCHAPALOOZA celebrate the sketchbook ARTS & ACTIVITIESARTS & ACTIVITIES, Sept, 2000 by Andrew WalesSept, 2000Andrew Wales

2. Leonardo da Vinci was indeed a man of "both" worlds. He found a plane of thought that encompassed both the world of art along with the world of the sciences. Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, and scientist. http://library.thinkquest.org/3044/adv_m ain.html

3. Leonardo da Vinci was indeed a man of "both" worlds. He found a plane of thought that encompassed both the world of art along with the world of the sciences. Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, and scientist.

5. His works have often been imitated and almost always unsurpassed. He was a great man of the arts and the sciences. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of both worlds.

6. http://jonkeegan.com/ “I started this sketchbook on August 29, 2004 in San Francisco, the day my previous sketchbook was stolen.” “Most of the book was filled while settling back into life in NYC. It also contains drawings from our European jaunt in the fall of 2005.” http://jonkeegan.com/sketchb ooks/08.2004/

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12. Paint Can Studies, Wayne Thiebaud, 1989, Sketchbook, Watercolor and Pen and Ink on Paper, 29 ¼ x 22 ½”. Paint Cans, Wayne Thiebaud, 1989, Watercolor and Colored Pencil on Paper, 29 ¼ x 22 ½”.

13. Most artists keep sketchbooks in which they experiment with ideas and collect drawings of their environment. Sketchbooks are like visual diaries for artists. Artists often use them for planning and developing their work. The most famous artist sketchbooks are those of Leonardo da Vinci. His sketchbooks are filled with drawings, diagrams and written notes of things he saw and ideas he came up with. Picasso produced 178 sketchbooks in his life time. He often used his sketchbooks to explore themes and make compositional studies until he found the right idea and subject for a larger painting on canvas. Henry Moore, a British sculptor, filled one of his sketchbooks with drawings of sheep that often wandered by the window outside his studio. -| @rtrageous thinking |@rtrageous thinking

14. If you want to be an artist, it's a good idea to start keeping a sketchbook around with you all the time. You can draw what you see (observational) or what you imagine in your sketchbook. Write in it. Stick photographs and other things you find in it. Later on, you can return to your sketchbook when you're looking for ideas for making works of art. ***Try to make an entry in your sketchbook as often as possible or establish a time for sketching in your daily routine.