GREAT TIPS

Keeping a Sketchbook - Marco Luccio (2003 Notes)

1.Technical experiments
Color Mixing - Brush stroke/Grade Charts/Colors next to each other
Tonal Ball with light and dark
Mark Making With Various Techniques
Textural Experiments
Mark Making various Tools:Brushes/Pen/Ink/Color
Pencil/Charcoal/Water Color/Graphite/Paint/Dry PastelPastel/Oil Pastel
Other Tools - Cloth/Eraser Toothbrush/Spoon/
Pallete Knife
Try Putting Paint on some pages then draw over
Try Dirty Page first then draw over
Try Black Paint on page -dry then draw with white over top (Paint/Ink/Chinagraphe pencil)
Mask windows with tape fill with texture/Color then peel
Frottage/Rubbing Technique

2.Observational Drawings/Notes
Hand Studies/Feet studies/Fingers
Some life/general drawings done in class
Family watching telly/Dogs/Cats/Fish/Pot
Notes from exhibitions seen Plants/Flowers/Garden/Books on shelves/Chairs/Shoes
Apples/Pears in various mediums/Cutains/Pillows/Cups
Drawings on Public Transport
Landscape studies
Still Life
Drawings From Photos
Drawings From Real Painting in Galleries with notes
Frottage
Half drawing/Half collage-Finish a photo/Painting
Apply techniques used in class
Draw from your own life and genral drawing/Painting and create new works from this using listed techniques Eg: Cut up photocpy of your work & stick in different ways/Write over drawing/Color over sections/Add other photocopies. Extend and push your themes.

3.Cut and Paste (Only interesting items/Keep to a minimum)
Found Items:Bus Ticket/Feather/Photos taken/Found/Postcards (Draw from them)
Cut up sections of drawing that did’nt work as a whole.
Fabrics to copy from.
Colored Paper then draw over
Examples of papers
Cut strips of paper then draw over top
Photcopy drawing/Paintings and copy/finish them
Photocopy your own work and re draw over top
Stick in music sheets/Maps/Instructionals and draw over top
Draw on bits of paper, stick in, then draw over top again
Cut and paste color kind of square to make a still life/FigureDrawing
Cut Pages out of old books draw over top
Timelines of art history
Glossary of art terms

4.Lists
Lists of artists to look at
List of materials to try
List Of Galleries to visit regulary
List of things you like to draw/Paint
List of Ideas/Possible Projects
Lists of art movements
Lists Of art Schools/Contacts/Open Days
Lists of arts stores// Hardware stores