Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks

If you have been thinking of creating a sketchbook—or if you’ve already started one—you’ll find valuable and inspiring new ideas here. Packed with creative examples and encouraging words, Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks will get you going with examples of sketchbook pages to inspire you, information to help you, and techniques that will make your sketchbook meaningful.

Artist and author Suzanne McNeill reveals everything you need to know to become an accomplished sketch-journalist. She shares insightful tips on choosing a subject, sketching from life, layouts, lettering, covers, and much, much more. You’ll soon be creating your own one-of-a-kind personal books to record personal memories, as you sketch travel adventures, friends, designs, ideas, and events. Your sketch-journal will be wonderfully revealing and uniquely yours—the perfect place to capture a moment, track the changes in your life, interpret your experiences, and just have fun!

Suzanne McNeill is often known as a Trendsetter for arts and cratts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments and invents something new and exciting. Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing cmpany dedicated to all things fun and creative. She is a designer,, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author and lover of everything hands-on. She was the 2011 winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievment Award .