Art KS3, KS4 or A-level:making a journal, using Keri Smith creative prompts. Make a sketchbook.

This is a slide presentation which explain how to make a fold out sketchbook and then gives tasks in each of the folds to do to make a creative sketchbook.

Students will need to follow the slides and be selective what they would like to do in each of their 16 blocks of their A2 paper.

The slide presentation has a lesson plan, a set of notes which need to be copied for the lesson and some collage sheets which need to be copied for students.

It is a good year 9 project and can link to Self-identity project or used for GCSE to make a small drawing sketchbook to pull out in their sketchbook.

Students enjoy making this interesting special fold out little booklet.

Lesson Objective:
1.Discover what it is to be creative and how to apply this by following the prompts on the slides.
2. Make a fold out sketchbook - by following the instructions.
3. Use ideas, thoughts, pictures and prompts to be creative, examples given on the slides.
4.Use collage and drawing techniques- examples shown in slides.
5. Learn about Keri Smith as a contemporary illustrator and Guerrilla artist and her ideas to prompt creativity

Some CREATIVE ACTIVITIES - Good homework project tasks as well to set.

Make a SMALL ART JOURNAL based on KERI SMITH’s "Wreck my Journal’

YOU COULD TRY complete A RECTANGLE OF YOUR A2 SHEET EACH DAY
These are some of the tasks…

1. Draw something interesting
2. Draw what makes me feel ‘calm’
3. Draw what is a ‘happy place’ and write words that make you happy
4. Draw the people I meet on a day
5. Frame collage and draw in the space a drawing
6. Do Zentangles (DOODLES)
7. Make visual thoughts – a ‘thought garden’ - draw in the collage of grass
8. Paste the ‘Blue frame’ and draw a beautiful scene in the frame
9. Draw on a shopping label, date and paste this.
10. Paste the television picture and then draw a picture in the TV.
11. Draw over the wall-paper (graffiti)
12. Paste the picture of the window frame and draw in the window
13. Draw to the sound of music and something that is loud.
14. Draw the family and friends I meet
15. Draw my hand and write down in the hand everything I touch for the day
16. Draw a pencil on a crushed piece of paper (Crush it) and paste this in
17. Transform the stone texture picture and turn it into something else.
    …see other activities

HAVE FUN! AND ENJOY BEING CREATIVE
Lesson Outcome

1. Create a drawing booklet to take home for the summer
2. Show the ability to use ideas, pictures, thoughts to generate a drawing
3. Show an ability to collage and to combine this with drawings.
4. Presentation of drawing ideas in the booklet
5. Understanding of layering and juxtaposing concepts to generate ideas
6. Exercising and opening the mind to new ideas like Keri Smith.

Lesson Resources
A2 white cartridge paper
Pencil
Eraser and sharpeners
Pritt stick
Scissors

Evaluation: - see fin
Discuss students have achieved? Review creativity?