In your sketchbook/notebook you will sketch/plan your projects
Think Ceramic Artists Don’t Draw? Think again! Ceramic artists draw all the time…in fact, drawing is very important to your success as a student of ceramics! Most artists keep sketchbooks in which they experiment with ideas and collect drawings of their environment. Some of the most famous artist sketchbooks are from:
Creating a plan
Brainstorming- Make a mind map or list of ideas that work with your problem at hand.
Thumbnail Sketching- small sketches that work on the basic form shape options and ideas
Annotating- add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.
How to Use Your Sketchbook
1. Warm Ups, Note Taking & Questioning during demos such as:
Think Ceramic Artists Don’t Draw? Think again! Ceramic artists draw all the time…in fact, drawing is very important to your success as a student of ceramics! Most artists keep sketchbooks in which they experiment with ideas and collect drawings of their environment. Some of the most famous artist sketchbooks are from:
- 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 lifetime. 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, filled one of his sketchbooks with drawings of sheep that often wandered by the window outside his studio.
Creating a plan
Brainstorming- Make a mind map or list of ideas that work with your problem at hand.
Thumbnail Sketching- small sketches that work on the basic form shape options and ideas
Annotating- add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.
How to Use Your Sketchbook
- Your name should be visible on the front of your sketchbook
- Label and date each page/assignment
1. Warm Ups, Note Taking & Questioning during demos such as:
- What do I need to learn to have success with this assignment?
- What do I already know?
- What is my experience with this subject, topic, idea?
- What or who can help me with this particular task?
- What tools can I use? What should I do first?
2. Drawing/Planning
When you are going to create a work of art that may take an extended period of time, it is important that you have a good plan for your design.
3. Research
Sometimes you may need some visual references for your project. For instance – if you want to do a sculpture Any visual images or reference materials you collect must be secured with a glue stick in your sketchbook or created digitally like in pinterest.
4. Documentation and Inspiration - Make sure you are documenting all of your work.
- Research must be included.
- The book must reflect your work in class.
- Cite all sources and number all pages!
- What informs and inspires your work?
- Reflections!
- What is working?
- What is not working?
- Sketches, images of work in progress.
- Make sure to include what you are working on in class.
You will be required to do work relating to art history, contemporary issues in art, and/or societal issues. When you are asked to respond to a reading, discussion, or video, your response can include drawing, writing, research, or any combination, and should comprise at least a whole page in your sketchbook. Your response should present your perspective and/or personal thoughts on the content, in either writing or drawing. Simply copying/pasting images is not enough!
Handouts that are distributed in class (including this one) must be kept in your sketchbook. It must be brought to class every day.
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