Sketchbook Q1

Choose a topic (your potential concentration idea?) and address the topic in your sketchbook pages.
Five completed spreads are due on Monday, October 8th. (10 single pages)
Develop your concept in a very personal manner and make this a statement about your ideas. The topic might be autobiographical or tackle concepts like solitude, party, love, or war. If you cannot find a topic to address, you might consider investigating lyrics of a song, since you might have feelings and ideas to convey about music and lyrics. Engage in research that provides knowledge about the topic you have chosen.
Add a page extension, include a pop-up image, alter the pages by cutting, and includes a see-through image.
You can blend the idea of journaling with visual exploration in an altered book form.
You can add pages from another book with text on them and use as is or prepared with gesso to provide a surface on which to draw.
Example journals of Dan Eldon (which are published as The Journey Is the Destination) and Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory.
Do some spreads, with are three or more two-page spreads for the book in sketches on the gessoed pages. Include text that is personal (song lyrics work well as a beginning, but students must write a response to the lyrics).
Include a restructured edge on at least two pages, page extensions, a collage, piercings, drawings, pop-ups, photographs from magazines, doors, and secret compartments.

This sketchbook is a work in progress and will be collected once each quarter and worth 100 points.  The sketchbook is also used for required research and planning for class projects. Pages can be added or prepared with gesso as needed.