alford.infoAlford Arts* have 100 Sketchbook kits to give away with a prize for each age group 10 – 13 years, 14 – 17 years and 18 and over. Each kit contains an A5 hardback 80-page sketchbook, 12 coloured crayons, a tin of soft sketching pencils, a sharpener and competition instructions.
Enter the competition to receive your Sketchbook kit by messaging us via our Alford Craft Market Facebook page or by emailing the Alford Craft Market. Requests for kits will be on a strict first come, first served basis. Sketchbook kits will be delivered safely to you by the Alford Hub volunteers so be sure to give us your address. When you receive your sketchbook please write your name, address, email and telephone number clearly on the first page.
A sketchbook is a visual notebook that many artists use to briefly capture the things they see around them, or ideas they may have, which they will then refer to when the time comes for them to start a larger piece of work.
We want you to fill this book of blank pages with drawings of things you see around you at home, in your garden, from your window or on the Internet. Could be a member of your family, a portrait of a friend from a photo, your pets, a group of household objects (still life) or anything you see in your daily life or in your own imagination. How about sketches of sport or fashion or nature?
You have 30 days (approximately to the end of February) to fill the notebook, drawing on the right hand page, notes and dates on the left. You may want to spend more time on some of the sketches and develop them into finished pictures. Use the colouring pencils for this – it is entirely up to you. We will let you know where to bring your sketchbook for judging.
The Alford Arts team will do the judging and they will be looking for originality, good observation, imagination, and diverse and interesting subjects.
For the best sketchbook in each age group the prize will be an Artway Art Kit – a great kit of everything you need to keep drawing, painting and mark making.
We will be showing photos from all the sketchbooks over the coming months on our new Alford Arts Facebook page – you can choose to remain anonymous or we can use your first name. We will contact you if we want to use one of your drawings on the Facebook page and we may ask you if you would like your sketchbook to be part of a public exhibition by Alford Arts later in the year.
Your sketchbook will be returned to you after the judging has taken place.
*Alford Arts will be an Art gallery and Community Arts facility in Alford in the main Market Place – hopefully opening later this year.