Develop Your Sketchbook Practice Workshop

Suitable for beginners and more established artists - Adults and Teens 11+

Through drawing skills instruction and guided experimentation with materials, develop a regular sketchbook habit to find your own visual language.

A sketchbook can be many things but often comes with pressure. A pressure for perfection rather than expression and an expectation that it should look a particular way. This can prevent us from ever developing a regular sketchbook habit.

Through experimentation and play, these workshops will provide strategies to combat the fear of the blank page and encourage personal expression, by using mixed media grounds and collage, different mark making techniques with various materials, and techniques to combine images and text. We’ll work across multiple subjects, including, landscape, still life, urban drawing, sculpture and portraiture, while working from direct observation and photographic references.

Whether you attend all 13 autumn sessions or individual sessions, the workshops are designed to help you find your unique approach to the sketchbook and form a key part of developing your own visual language.

Each week there will be a different focus, although there will be scope to work from your own starting point in each session.

All materials supplied except sketchbook. Please bring your own sketchbook.

All workshops held in the front gallery studio at RuptureXIBIT