Online Workshop: Exploring Keeping a Sketchbook

Online Workshop: Exploring the World of Sketchbooks
Adults & Teens 16+
Anya Toomre

Fridays, May 1 -June 5

10:00 am-12:30 pm, 6 weeks

Online using Zoom

On sale while we’re under Stay-at-Home orders $175 ($200 normally)

Are you interested in sketchbooks? Do you like the idea of keeping a visual journal and creatively documenting your life? Are you interested in maintaining a more consistent creative habit while also getting a mental health boost? 

Designed to inspire and create the habit of keeping a sketchbook, this course will focus on sketching to understand our materials and master techniques, to capture our day to day life, and to sketch people, architecture and nature. 

Sketchbooks should be an exciting investigation of media, techniques and ideas.  A sketchbook can have many roles in an artist’s practice. In this workshop we are using it as a playground of visual ideas, a place to let you play and try new things as well as a workhorse for developing skills: drawing, observation, annotating, exploring, reflecting. But mostly, in this workshop, I hope to encourage you to use sketchbooking as a way to be creative every day.  

Each lesson will explore a different theme while also using our media of ink, watercolor, pencil and colored pencil in a variety of ways. I will give at least twenty things for us to explore during the workshop and after.  Gather together some similar objects: cups, toys, keys, money, fruit and your sketchbook and drawing tools for our first class. We will be drawing collections.

Suggested supplies: A sketchbook that can take watercolor (140 lb paper) like Stillman and Birn Beta or Zeta sketchbooks or Strathmore 400 series, watercolors that are Artist Grade rather than student grade like Daniel Smith or Winsor & Newton, watercolor and colored pencils if you have them, a pencil and an eraser.

All skill levels are welcome

For more info and to register, please visit www.anyatoomre.com/workshops