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A Lovely Start to Sketchbook Studio
It’s been wonderful to meet the children over the past week and begin to get to know them. There was such a buzz of energy and enthusiasm from the start — especially when it came to personalising their sketchbooks. Watching them create their own 'spaces and places' within those pages, making them feel unique and personal, was a real highlight. We began with some drawing exercises to practice observation skills — one of the most important skills an artist can develop, and one
Why I Started The Teaching Artist Project (and Why Sketchbook Studio Exists)
After stepping away from teaching for almost three years, I began to feel the pull to work with children again - specifically to teach art. This blog shares why I started The Teaching Artist Project and how Sketchbook Studio aims to offer children something different: a space to explore materials, develop ideas, and experience art as a creative process.
When Every Child Can Succeed in Art
How process-led art projects allow every child to succeed, experiment, and create something entirely their own. As I reflect on my time as a teacher, particularly the art projects I delivered, one stands out. It remains one of my favourites and offers a perfect example of the power of a process-led approach. The aim of the project was to explore expression through the human figure and translate that exploration into a three-dimensional model using modelling wire and mod-roc.
