Creative sketchbook examples to inspire high school Painting / Fine Art students - See more at: http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/art-sketchbook-ideas#sthash.rHSMRJeT.dpuf

There are so many student sketchbook pages that are filled with extravagant, over-sized headings, decorative fonts, borders and other unnecessary ornamentation: it is refreshing to see this AS Level sketchbook page by Jack Broad. Here, accurate, first-hand drawings in a range of mediums are surrounded by brief annotation. This page is a reminder of what really matters in the initial stages of a project: competent observational drawing and visual exploration of subject-matter.

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I found this interesting because its similar to what I do in my sketch book, when i'm expressing my ideas on paper.  The difference is that it looks like they used water colors in their sketch, while I just use pencil for sketches.  

Scratch Board Picture

This is picture of an ocelot on scratch board. Was completed in about one week and was all done with standard scratch tool.  I really like the shading I achieved with the scratch board, it makes it look very abstract but realistic.  I could of worked a little bit more on the darker parts but everything turned out excellent in the end.

Quote Painting

This was my quote painting,  I chose a Doctor Who quote and placed it with the Sonic Screwdriver.  This picture was done in all acrylic paint.  I really liked how the sonic screwdriver turned out but I could have made the words neater.  In the end the whole thing looks a little sloppy but it is still good in my view.

Collage Painting

This was a painting of League of Legends characters, as a collage.  I fist painted all the gray characters then went on to the second layer which was the colored characters.  My last layer was the LoL logo.

Re- Talk about your art

Here is a challenge...

Copy and paste the following list to your blog. Then, every time you post a piece of your artwork on your blog, if you can't think of anything to say about it, choose one of these prompts to talk about your art. At the end of the semester you will receive a grade on your blog, based on the effort you put into it. It shouldn't be something you fear or dread doing. I want you to have fun with it and challenge yourself to think about the artwork you are making. It is your artwork and you can feel however you want about it. Write a sentence or a story...the choice is yours. Post all of your artwork that you complete in or out of class. You can even post work from earlier grades. Try to label each piece according to when it was completed.

Start talking about your art

• If you could do this piece again, what would you change?
• What materials did you use for this piece? How did you use them?
• Describe your idea behind the artwork. Where did it come from?
• How did you make the color choices in your artwork?
• Was your art influenced by another artist? Who and why?
• Tell me a story about your artwork?
• What elements or principles of design did you use? Explain where you used them.

Painting Illinois Illusion Project

This painting was done in water colors and was for an Illinois Illusion competition.  The picture is called "Refection of his Father" and shows two white tailed deer which is the state animal.  The painting took me about three days to complete.  In the end I think I could have done a little bit more with shading and on the background.

Skeleton Final Project

For my final project I decided, to make it different, to make the skeleton out of copper.  I combined both charcoal and pastels to create this colorful skeleton.  This picture took me about a week or so to finish.  I really like the shading job I did on it but I could have done better on the proportions  of the whole thing.