Inventive, creative sketchbooks? Look no further…
Posted: 16/09/13 01:08 |
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Here is a glimpse into some of the most inventive and creative sketchbooks you may have seen: by second level OCA student Sandra Kendall. OCA tutor and assessor Emma Drye reports.
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Thank you so much for showing us this! Emma’s comments about the work make the whole thing make so much sense – what an intensive mini-lesson on sketchbook work! I’ve learnt lots.
Well done Sandra I am so glad that your sketchbooks have been singled out for their good practice. It was a pleasure to work with you.
Richard Liley
Thanks for helping me Richard
This really feels like a validation, I was working away thinking are all these ideas valid or slightly unhinged! maybe they are but I know I’m on the right path now.
Emma, I hope lots of students watch this video. You make a really good point about the sketchbook allowing work to develop that couldn’t just be made out of thin air. Quite a lot of students are a bit resistant to sketching and preparing and prefer just to launch in to a piece and let it develop. The problem with this approach is that things can become predictable and overworked. Of course, it would be tedious to copy a sketch in its entirety and I think this is why students often resent having to sketch something first. They know they will become bored reproducing it larger. This video and your comments point out that a sketchbook is far more than a preparation ground. It is a repository for ideas, a work out for the creative mind, a testing ground for techniques and materials, a resource book and many other things besides.
Olivia that was me stubbornly resisting preparatory work, I’ve always used sketchbooks to draw but not plan and invent, this degree path has taught me otherwise, I now have more focus and direction through working in this manner and ideas are everywhere! I can’t keep up with them!
What an insightful comment! Thanks for this clarification of how a sketchbook can enhance one’s work.
Wow! Very inspiring – thanks for sharing this.
A wonderful birds-eye view of the way that Sandra’s creative vision progresses – so colourful and inventive.
Brilliant work – the video is a great tutorial in how to use a sketch book
Very inspiring and informative. Not being a confident drawer or sketcher – it would be interesting to see sketchbooks that are considered to be ‘middle of the road’.
This is why I want to study with the OCA…to learn how to speak such a visual language, have a portal for all the ideas in my head, to make such a beautiful,fluent and useful work of art within itself.
As a new Painting 1 Practice of painting student I found ‘Inventive, creative sketchbooks’ inspirational. I have been of the habit of jumping right in to a piece of work and wondering about a bit trying to grasp the idea that I know was there, until usually something reasonably satisfying (to me) appears. The discipline and fun of sketchbooks has eluded me up till now, but I now see the wonderful potential of record keeping from the germ of something, through sparking activity to satisfying output. Thanks for sharing this and I hope to be able to pick up on the key messages here. Many thanks, Stuart.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful sketchbook, I now have better understanding of how these are supposed to work, this has been an area I have really struggled with.