Seminar: Sketchbooks

During the Seminar unit, 8th grade students learned about different sketchbook techniques, media usage, color schemes, and famous artist's usage of sketchbooks.  Students each chose a concept in which to focus their entire sketchbook.  Each entry in their sketchbook was then to reflect their chosen concept.  Each week students are given options on different techniques they would like to try, different media, color scheme usage, as well as different artists that they would like to research.  By the end of the 9 weeks, students will have experimented with and studied different techniques used for sketchbooks.  These techniques and media usage will then serve as a tool to help them in later projects or assignments.