Exercise for Making an Artist’s Book or Sketchbook

By Paula Briggs

Following on from our earlier session making book art, this week in our Drawing and Making Workshops for ages 6 to 10 we made an artist’s book using collage and drawing, from a single sheet of paper.  The whole session was run as an exercise, with the children guided along the process, yet with plenty of space for them to develop their own drawing style and thought processes.

The clue for this project came from a previous warm-up exercise: Making Stronger Drawings where we explored how drawing over an existing image can help inform the marks you make.

 

Making an artist's book: new compositions...
Making an Artist’s Book

 

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“Rachel has contributed some great resources to AccessArt and we really like how this idea captures the concept of ‘returning’ – something that school children will have processed over the past year. We love how this activity encourages hands to feel and move paint about freely – to experience its qualities and tactile nature. You could try this in your setting using different migratory birds such as Ospreys or Swifts as inspiration, with the children looking at images of these birds before trying some observational drawing.” – Rachel, AccessArt.

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