All Artists, listen up! (Sketchbook ideas)

So, if you're doing Art GCSE, A-level or any other level, your teachers might stress you to create nice backgrounds for each page and layouts, or maybe you just want to make your sketchbook look pretty.. Lucky for you, I found some ideas online, which might give you some ideas and expand that little mind of yours.

• A simple watercolour wash over the whole page makes a nice background, which won't draw attention away from your work.
• Make boarders around the page and the drawings you stick in.
• Paint the whole page black, then paint a white boarder around your papers you stick in for a nice effect!
•  Use watercolour paint for the whole page, now take another colour, apply it to the top of the page (with lots of water), tilt your sketchbook and let it leak down the page, and the colours may diffuse into eachother.
• Scribble all over the page and fill in some sections with crayons.
• Stick in newspaper and use watercolour over it - even seen pink newspaper? I have - in my sketchbook!
• Coffee! Put some coffee granules in a cup, and water in another. Now apply granules on page and with brush and water, spread around the page (the coffee granules will 'melt' and will be easy to use like watercolour). Hmm, the smell!
• Teabags! Use a teabag and water, and spread around the page - brown colour should come off the teabag (just make sure not to break the teabag, but if you do, use glue to set the little pieces for a textured effect).

The other great thing to do is scrapbooking paper under your annotation texts or small pictures! Lucky for you, I found a great, free source of vintage-look scrapbooking paper that you can print!

Click this to get a selection: http://freevintagedigistamps.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Scrapbook%20Paper