Thanks for Your Inspiration

In the past I have said “If my garden looks great, I’m not doing so well. When the garden is neglected, I’m really in my element.” I’ve been on sabbatical because of burn-out from teaching for 15 years all over the country. Here’s a picture of the garden.  

I’m missing the fun of teaching. The online workshops via ZOOM got amazing results. I need the fun of being around you ‘learners’, teaching again, if on a limited basis. My big goal is to get Pocket Sketching everywhere. So, watch for some live and online workshops over the winter in the coming blogs. 
            
The Teachers’ Workshop in October was terrific!  Go to: Teachers Page to see if a teacher is in your area. Not only will they teach live in your town, they will also know people you can enjoy sketching with.

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Another resource for ‘sketching buddies’ in your area is Urban Sketchers. Go to their map of Chapters. If your town doesn’t have a Chapter, you can start one. “If you build it, they will come”. Urban Sketchers is an international group started by one man. If you want to sketch with someone in London or Paris, contact that Chapter and find a new sketching friend who can show you where he/she likes to sketch.

Last blog I said I’d tell you how I get something finished that I didn’t much want to do. Use your timer, just as you use it for sketching. I can do anything for 30 minutes. A kitchen timer is great because you can see it, and probably hear it grinding down. If the time period is short, it’s amazing how much you can get done and out of the way. Big project? Use several short time periods.  Put them in your least productive time of day.  Save your best energy for something fun, like sketching​
 
Every month, because of the PBS show, we have many new people subscribe to the Newsletter who don’t know what an excellent lesson ‘Fix ‘Em’ is for you to benefit from for as long as you sketch. With just minutes of ‘fixing’ mishaps in color, contrast or focal point you usually get much improvement. The exercise is excellent for having you analyze your sketches and figure out what’s wrong, then correct it.
 
If you donate $100 to WGVU, (a 501-c-3 not for profit), you receive 5 of my ‘Fix ‘Em’ sketches, a link to my very good video explaining how to do it, and a receipt from WGVU. If you donate $200.00 or more, you get an additional 5 sketches. (This could be a gift to a sketcher, and you get a write-off.)  All donations help pay for Season Four of Pocket Sketching, which is filmed, edited and ready for release.

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Here are two of my sketches ‘before’ and ‘after’. One was simply hiding a mistake, and keeping the repair not obvious. (Yes, you can correct mistakes in watercolor!)

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You have done well with the Fundraiser for Season Four on PBS. Believe it or not, we have raised $14,300!!! (We still have $11,700 to go.)  

Incidentally, you are more than welcome to simply donate to WGVU to fund Season Four, and not receive any ‘Fix Ems’. In either case, your form for tax-deductible contributions will arrive from WGVU in January. I can’t contribute, because if I do, NETA will not distribute the program to PBS stations, which is a bummer. 

Donate Here

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Within a week I should have some very interesting news after months of working on a project. STAY TUNED!!!

Happy Sketching and a Very Happy Thanksgiving!
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