Your sketchbook is your resource book, your notebook and your art portfolio all rolled into one pretty package. By the end of grade 12, you should have a piece of work that is worthy enough to take to a portfolio interview if you are interested in a career in art. The purpose of your sketchbook is to get practice in drawing, to save ideas for projects and to record real life and ideas from your imagination.

What can go into a Sketchbook

• Notes on elements and principles of art and other theory
• Your process work - the planning stages for any larger piece of art
• Sketches for future works of art, ideas, notes
• Drawings
• Paintings - note that most sketchbook paper is fairly thin. You may want to paint on heavier duty paper and then insert/glue the work into your sketchbook. Use archival quality glue or you may find papers falling out or discoloured after a few years.

Examples of good sketchbooks

http://www.tvdsb.ca/webpages/spencerj/files/finalsketchbooksmall.swf

http://artatsaunders.wikispaces.com/Student+Work+2011+Neufeld%2C+Zanna

Ideas to follow up ------

http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/Default.htm

http://artpro.pbwiki.com/FrontPage