Your Sketchbook

Your Sketchbook: Ali Hargreaves

Ali Hargreaves encourages all her students to keep a sketchbook. She finds sketching is the perfect opportunity to really notice your surroundings, to take it in and help preserve the memory of the place.

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As many of you know, I am an art tutor, and I encourage all my students to have a sketchbook as part of my lessons. I recommend an A4-size sketchbook with cartridge paper in class, and I believe everything should go in there, mistakes and all!