Last week I went sketching at our Tucson Botanical Garden with Carolyn Davis. I love Carolyn’s sketch! Then Suzanne Pronovost sent me a watercolor sketch of me. How can I stop teaching! You guys get fantastic results.  ​

After my long sabbatical, I’m back in the saddle again!  We have two Basic Workshops scheduled and one event. The first workshop will be in Showlow, Arizona June 9, 10, 11. Why Showlow? For the first time ever we’ve rented a house for a month to escape the June heat in Tucson. Showlow is at 6400 ft and cool in the summer. How better to meet wonderful local people than an art workshop? Delightful people take art workshops! I’m very rusty, so it’s priced accordingly. If you're interested CLICK the button below then SCROLL DOWN to POCKET SKETCHING WITH KATH MACAULAY or call 928.532.2296 ​

A year ago I held my first Pocket Sketching Retreat.  I’d never been to a retreat, much less hosted one.  I’d read about them.  That was as close as I’d been.  A friend is a travel agent and she did the work of making reservations…for everything.  The Arizona Inn here in Tucson was our base.  It was marvelously fun! So several of the group decided to do a repeat, this time at Tubac, a cute, artsy village south of Tucson. 

​Last week we stayed at the Tubac Golf Resort and visited Tubac, the village, with a good dose of sketching, lots of joyous chatting and some shopping.  The easiest way to show it, is to include sketches.  There were nine of us and the conclusion is that they all want to do it again, next time near San Luis Obispo in California.  I am amazed:  this is fun!!!  Will this be the new form of Pocket Sketching?

I’ve been trying to re-learn oil painting.  It is possible to forget a lot!  Bit by bit some technique is coming back.  I understand you when you say you’ve put down art for years and are re-learning.  I think we have an advantage by having known before.  At least we know we could do it in the past.

With oil painting I am amazed at how much equipment is involved compared to the ‘grab it and go’ of Pocket Sketching.  Like many of you, I have tons of equipment and have said for years all I want is to be free to use all this stuff.  ‘Someday’ is now.  I have no workshops booked.  Maybe it’s time to make a huge donation of oil, watercolor, and acrylic supplies, then just go sketching.   Here are two oils I rather like.
​

​Court is still out as to the future of teaching Pocket Sketching.  I really miss your enthusiasm and joy in learning.  Dale and I are getting ancient and there are so many possibilities!  Stay tuned for my “trout story” in the next blog.  It set up my life.
​

If you are not receiving Season Four of Pocket Sketching on PBS in your area, contact your local station and request it.  The Season is running nationally.  We are actually discussing a Season Five…if it can be filmed on location and not in a studio.  This whole technique is meant to go anywhere you can go.

Click the button below for PBS.  Then Click (Change your local station) then click (See more stations) and enter your Zip Code to access your local station.

You can still order 4 x 6 reproductions of my sketches for $3.00 each (larger cost more).  We will raise the price on May 1, 2025 but I wanted to keep it low a little longer so our supporters could order good model sketches inexpensively.
​