​BASIC WORKSHOP ONLINE
Beginners


​WORKSHOPS PAUSED UNTIL AUTUMN 2025
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​11+ HOURS - 5 SESSIONS
*PRE-CLASS REQUIREMENT*
*PURCHASE BASIC KIT SUPPLIES IN ADVANCE  SO THEY ARRIVE BEFORE CLASS BEGINS*
Supplies & Class Enrollment MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY!

ENROLL VIA PHONE OR EMAIL
Phone: 520.318.9291
Email:   kath@pocketsketching
I accept Deposits of $100 for Tuition (check or debit/credit card)

NOTE:  Instructions to join the Zoom workshop will be sent to you via email 2-3 days in advance.
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Workshop Format

  • 5 Class sessions - 2 hours & 15 minutes each (can be extended to complete discussion with students)
  • Spaced with 2 days between sessions to allow time for homework
  • Class recordings available for 2 weeks for review
  • Microphone opened 15 minutes early
    • Early arrivals
    • Group discussion
    • Questions for Instructor
  • Interactive evaluations throughout
  • Homework evaluation at beginning of each class

Lesson Plan

1  Use of equipment (especially water-soluble pen).
        Emphasis on perspective of contrast.

2  Use of the pen with watercolor.
        Emphasis on perspective of color.

3  Landscape, photo reference.
        Emphasis on editing & focal point.

4  Landscape, photo reference. 
        Wax as resist
        Scraping rocks in a stream
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5  Florals
        Live reference
        Utilizing all previous lessons.

There are interactive evaluations during the teaching. (After the first session, Teacher evaluates homework at the beginning of Sessions 2-5)

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Now I have attended all 3 types of your workshops: traditional live workshop, Covid-19 mask and distancing workshop, and Zoom workshop. (Toss in your great PBS program showing here, and I guess that makes 4 types!). In a nutshell, you made Zoom the best of all worlds! No travel. No hotels. Still, great lessons. Full-size sketchpad on my computer screen. I can totally see what you are doing, and we could ask questions as you went along. Excellent individual critique of sketches while sharing with great people. More time to spend on 'homework' to try different things. Good time frame of 5 hour-and-a-half lessons, plus a half hour for socializing before class. Having the lessons available for two weeks made it easy to review and catch up when I had a conflict. Thanks for bringing your workshop to Zoom and my computer.

Jan P.

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The classes were very well prepared, well presented, designed for student success and there was no wasted time or filler time.  Kath knows her subject and is very thorough.  She keeps evaluations brief and to the point.  I reviewed each lesson to catch what I may have missed.  One reason I signed up was to be able to go back and revisit the lessons." - Gayle S.

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Class Session Format

  • Evaluation of homework (Sessions 2-5)
  • Day's lesson demonstrated
  • Class does current lesson
  • Evaluation
  • ​Homework - evaluated at beginning of next session

SUMMARY

​Upon completion of the 5-Class Workshop, students should be able to enjoy sketching on location anywhere with 
total portability and no clean-up.
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​Pocket Sketching® can be used hiking, biking, sauntering or just standing in line.

All class sessions are recorded and available  for two (2) weeks -  great for review, when absent, or when something is missed.

Several watercolors of John Singer Sargent are used as examples of technique.

Pocket Sketching® Workshops

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