DAVID HOCKNEY: Sketchbooks

DAVID HOCKNEY: Sketchbooks

✏️ Live class: Saturday 6th September, 2pm BST

📚 Includes 14 days recording access

🌳 With artist & tutor Frances Stanfield

💸 Pay What You Can

💻 Please book via a browser, not the Eventbrite app. Email us if you need help!

Join us for an online sketchbook class inspired by the iconic work of David Hockney. We’ll explore his playful approaches to seeing and recording the world around us, from luminous landscapes to colourful everyday moments.

Frances will guide you through a series of sketchbook-based exercises, introducing simple but effective watercolour techniques to help bring your pages alive. If you don’t have watercolours or ink, don’t worry-everything can also be done with just a pencil. The aim is to explore, experiment, and find new ways of capturing your surroundings in the spirit of Hockney’s joyful curiosity.

Whether you’re brand new to sketchbooks or a seasoned artist looking for fresh inspiration, this session will be welcoming, practical, and fun.

Suggested Materials(Don’t worry if you don’t have everything listed. Join with whatever you’ve got! You may want to try new materials after watching the class, and you’ll have 14 days of recording access to revisit anything.)

• A Pencil

• A Sketchbook (new or ongoing!) If you are going to use wet materials, be aware that some paper doesn't take water very well. Test the paper before the class if you're unsure :)

If you don't have a sketchbook you can just use any paper you have - for example, cartridge or watercolour paper will work well.

Ideally:

• Watercolours + a brush
• A pot for water to clean your brush
• Tissue or Kitchen Roll for drying your brush

Optional:

• Inks
• Any other materials you would personally like to experiment with!

This class is suitable for all levels from complete beginners to practicing artists

Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class:

🎟 Tickets

We suggest a contribution of £20, but please be honest and pay what you can. Your support allows us to keep offering these classes while paying our tutors a sustainable wage.

There’s also a "Pay It Forward" ticket option to help support others. We offer free places for those unable to pay — just email us and we’ll happily include you.

📩 Once You Book

You’ll receive a confirmation email with access to the Eventbrite Online Event Page, where you’ll find full joining instructions.

Please log in using the email address you booked with.

🎥 In the Class

• You won’t be visible or audible during the session — cameras and microphones are automatically off.
• You can chat with us and other participants using the chat box — we love hearing from you!
• Want to share what you made? Tag us on Instagram: @londondrawinggroup & @frances.stanfield or email us your work.

✨ About the Tutor

Frances Stanfield is a practising artist and co-founder of London Drawing Group, working across drawing, painting, and printmaking.

She studied Illustration at Falmouth University and met fellow LDG co-founders while on a scholarship at the Royal Drawing School.

Frances is the author of The Drawing Ideas Book and The Printmaking Ideas Book, and her teaching blends traditional technique with open, experimental exercises. Her approach is designed to help students build confidence, explore freely, and enjoy the process.

“Frances consistently searches for something from her avid practice of changing media. Her method of working inspires her students.” — LDG Student

📬 Questions or access needs? Email us any time at:hello@londondrawinggroup.com

And that's it!

We're really looking forward to you joining us.

Love,

LDG