1. Sketchbook Project

2. How do artists use sketchbooks? As a journal To record observations To collect ideas To make thumbnail sketches To make rough drafts For “studies” To simply play around

3. Thumbnails Quick, small sketches. Not very detailed. Think in the general, not specifics. Idea of what the final piece will look like (composition, color scheme etc.)

4. Studies Rough Drafts Preliminary sketches

5. Materials Paste photos/objects Graphite, Paint, Pastel, Ink…. Can you think of any others?

6. Page Weaving Text and image used together

7. Notes about the work, on the same page as the image.

8. You are not limited by the size of your page!

9. Examples

12. Examples

13. Image Sources http://gregnewbold.blogspot.com/2010/06/50-thumbnails.html Edgar Degas http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Thumbnail+paintings&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE- Address&biw=1280&bih=904&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=UXY8iBW6Wpsj3M:&imgrefurl http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Thumbnail+paintings&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE- Address&biw=1280&bih=904&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=UXY8iBW6Wpsj3M:&imgrefurl James Jean Sketchbook- http://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/2010/07/artist-james-jean-look-inside.htmlhttp://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/2010/07/artist-james-jean-look-inside.html Jessica Holden http://jessicaholdenart.blogspot.com/2011/02/sketchbook-pages.htmlhttp://jessicaholdenart.blogspot.com/2011/02/sketchbook-pages.html hudsonvalleypainter.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/60561525@N08/5527307767/ http://www.awkwardandbeautiful.com/2011/08/sketchbook-project-cover.html