Sketchbook-Journal: Drawing and Painting 1 and 2Prompts and Work Samples

Art Education

Fulton County Schools

2007

Why Sketchbook Journals?

They Develop:

•Technical Skills: drawing skills, design skills, and media exploration.

•Thinking and Personal Expression through art: to learn processes for idea development; this doesn’t just happen, we have to consciously teach these processes.

•Learning: Reflection on personal growth, ideas, connections among art class learning, other classes, and life outside school.

Two Aspects of Sketchbook/Journals

Journal•Personal ideation•Concept development•Reflection

Sketchbook

•Technical skill building

•Studies

•Micro labsStudents need both

There are many way ways to structure the combination: sketchbook begins on one side of book, journal begins on the

other; simply intersperse both types of work or?

Teachers need to:

explicitly teach ways to develop ideas/concepts.

Then...

explicitly teach for moving ideas from journals into other artwork.

It’s a Developmental

Process• Drawing and Painting 1– prompts need more structure so students can develop technical skills in conjunction with developing a personal voice.

• Open prompts are more suitable to advanced drawing students allowing them to experiment with media while creating personally meaningful work that can be translated into future artworks.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Create a series of overlapping contour line hands that each hold an item that represents your personality.

Teacher: Joe Frassnaht

Technical Skill(s): • Composition and contour line drawingConceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences / thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Self Description: Pick an object to represent your true self and expand upon it with text,

Technical Skill(s):

• Mixed media and composition

• Verbalizing personal aesthetic affinities

Conceptual Idea:

• Reflecting on yourself as an artist.

• What do you want to say and how will you communicate it?

Teacher: Marea Haslett

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Create a visual interpretation for the words “free spirited”.

Teacher: Bonnie Lovell

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Mixed media collage on how music influences you.

Technical Skill(s):

• Sketching & composition

• Verbalizing how an artist communicates meaning through visual “language”.

Conceptual Idea:

• Reflection on an artist’s intent and how it is communicated. What do you want to say and how will you communicate it?

Teacher: Marea Haslett

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Pro choice / Prolife : Students give social commentary on current events.

Teacher: Michael Sheifflee

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Create a visual interpretation of what you think a high school students greatest concern is.

Teacher: Michael Sheifflee

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Incorporate a photographic image into a journal page.

Teacher: Harolyn Andrews

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on meaning related to a concept• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Continue a magazine image in a new and unexpected direction incorporating a story about the person or place into the final design.

Teacher: Bonnie Lovell

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Choose a word from the dictionary that describes you and then create a double page spread defining the word and yourself.

Teacher: Bonnie Lovell

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

Incorporate a photographic image into a journal page.

Teacher: Harolyn Andrews

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 1

Prompt:

I am...

Teacher: Megan Evans

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 2

Prompt:

Combine Pen and ink techniques with watercolor.

Technical Skill(s):

• Composition

• Ink techniques: hatching, cross hatching, stippling and scumble.

Conceptual Idea:

• Inspiration from the world around you based on personal aesthetic preferences. Will vary for each individual

Teacher: Dorsey Chappel

Drawing and Painting 2

Prompt:

Family Map: Create an image that incorporates your family heritage and culture.

Teacher: Megan Evans

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 2

Prompt:

Blob Drawing: Using any color create an ink blot type drawing by squishing two pages in your journal together and then building on the image created. Incorporate text into the composition and create an off center focal point.

Teacher: Megan EvansTechnical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 2

Prompt: Create a non traditional

family tree.

Teacher: Megan Evans

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students

choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences /

thoughts.

Technical Skill(s): • Composition; mixed media (introduce specific techniques from which students choose) Conceptual Idea:• Reflection on personal experiences and meaning related to a concept • Recording personal experiences / reflections for use in future art work• Creating art (visual communication) based on those personal experiences / thoughts.

Drawing and Painting 2

Prompt:

I am...

Teacher: Megan Evans