Concertina sketchbook

This weekend I had lots of fun with some of my raggy doll sisters in Solihull on a class with a talented artist Karen Stamper. And here is what I made… six pages in a concertina sketchbook…

How to make a simple concertina sketchbook from a single sheet of paper.

There are eight online Creative Concertina Sketchbook courses to choose from by Karen Stamper. Free Up your Sketchbook and Grow is the six week course.

Words and Pictures is the online magazine of SCBWI British Isles.

You have been given a small concertina sketchbook to work into over the next few weeks. A concertina sketchbook allows you to think of your sketchbook drawings as a continuous process rather than as separate entries. I have shown you one I am currently working on as an example but there are different ways in which you can approach the idea of continuity. This can be continuity of perspective - a panoramic view of a room, a street or a landscape, or could be continuity of time - perhaps a…

CONCERTINA SKETCHBOOKS – Phoenix Contemporary Textiles

There are eight online Creative Concertina Sketchbook courses to choose from by Karen Stamper. Free Up your Sketchbook and Grow is the six week course.

Much of what goes on sale in the Artful Kids store goes through a ‘testing’ process when it arrives. This is partly for practical reasons, and partly because we often can’t resist trying the products out. This was certainly the case with one of the latest arrivals, the Concertina Sketchbook. I’d heard of these before, but not often seen them, and was therefore quite keen to try one out. It occurred to me that this would be the perfect place to store and display some of the numerous samples…

A few years ago I made several concertina books as part of a project focusing on a local piece of common ground which is with in walking distance from where I live in Durham City. The photos for th…