The prompts and theme ideas we send with every volume are there to inspire and focus your creativity, but they are suggestions and not set in stone. Should you wish to develop your own theme within the pages of your sketchbook, please feel free to do so, we look forward to seeing the diversity of work from so many different perspectives.

We will use our themes to direct people towards different themes and collections within the library catalog, but we will also happily tag your sketchbook with the themes and tags you suggest to us when you register. There is no hurry in selecting a theme, you can do so before you send your sketchbook back to us. Just register your Sketchbook using our online form and indicate the themes and tags you would like us to use.

Meanwhile, here are the prompts for our pilot run, I hope you enjoy!

I find a sketchbook to be very freeing and use it as a way to try out new ideas or to tease out a new direction for my artwork. So my sketchbooks, like me, are quite eclectic. They are generally mixed media by the time I get to the end, utising pen, watercolour, acrylics, markers and even collage and decoupage at times. My sketchbook gives me permission to play in a small scale and this playfulness has been known to inspire new pieces and techniques in my art.