Sketchbooks can be an exciting investigation into art techniques and ideas but even more so, a wonderful way to record your life. A sketchbook can have many roles in an artist’s practice but mostly, I hope to encourage you to use sketchbooking as a way to be creative every day.

A visual journal is a place where you explore techniques and materials while recording the world around you.

It is for nobody else’s eyes but your own, unless you choose to share. No matter what your level of experience is, give your inner artist a little breathing room by developing a non judgmental sketchbook practice.

Pages can be beautiful in their simplicity or take on the aesthetic of a polished piece. And it can be one way on one page and then another way on the next. Don’t box yourself in. The point of your sketchbook is above all to create and record your thoughts, your feelings, your life!

You can be flowery or decorative on one page and not on the next. You do not need to spend time adding borders; sweating over details, double guessing what you should write about, working over pages again and again. The sketchbook is NOT meant to be a complete book of finished artworks and illustrations; it is meant to be creative document of exploration and recording what is important to you at the moment.

Come join Charlene Collins Freeman for:

Keeping a Sketchbook Journal

Located at Cloud 9 Art School
18414 103rd Ave NE
Bothell WA 98011

www.cloud9artschool.com

Saturdays 10:30am - 12:30pm

February 1 - March 7

We will learn about drawing, ink and watercolor while exploring various approaches to keeping a sketchbook journal. A place where, as an artist, you get to think, works things out, learn and just create frequently, even daily, without pressure.

All skill levels welcome.

Register by clicking here.

For suggested art supplies, click here.