THE LAST BASIC WORKSHOP??

3/21/2024

What a fun group to end with…but they all have been fun. The last day of our workshop we went to the Tucson Botanical Gardens. It was crowded. This is where sketchers find they’ re not interrupted (in fact not even noticed!) by other people.

Tucson Botanical Gardens

Botanical Garden Barrio

Rose Sketching

Kid Stretching to See

After the workshop some sketchers stayed. I had scheduled a pedicure at 5:00, thinking everyone would be gone by 4:30. So sorry to not be there! Dale, as always, was there to help. Bored at the salon, I sketched the operators. With sketching, you always have something to do.

For 12 years Dale and I have traveled and taught Pocket Sketching workshops all over the country and even in Canada. It has been unbelievably rewarding for us. Can we move on? Is this only a sabbatical? We’ll find out. For the first time we are not scheduling, but we may not be able to stay away.

We plan to continue the Teacher’s workshop and probably online workshops. We don’t have to haul everything with us by car for those, and I do want as many people as possible to have the chance to have all the excitement of finding they can sketch without rules, for pleasure, anywhere, in minutes.

WHAT'S NEXT

We’re taking a non-teaching vacation for the first time in 12 years. I plan to sketch and will send some results in your newsletters. If we are in your area, maybe we can sketch together with you. I’ll send the route when we have it. We’ll continue to send tips in our newsletters. Some will be just what YOU NEED at that moment.

UPCOMING EVENTS

We still have three openings in the Retreat, April 11 through 15 at the delightful Arizona Inn here in Tucson. Dale and I were there on the patio for dinner with our grandkids. All the flowers are in bloom. By April the nights will be warm for sitting out and the days will be perfect. This is my first retreat. I expect we’ll learn and play! Register by phone or email: 520-318-9291 or [email protected]

The Teachers Workshop has two spaces left and the dates are April 25 through 30. This is loaded with everything I know. You leave having done all the exercises, learned how to teach them and how to run the business, plus you get one item of everything I use. You can use the Logo and be protected by the Trademark, be included on our website and continue to get support. Teaching Pocket sketching is a very fun way to get a gig income, meet new friends, have purpose, earn a full income: so many advantages. Register by phone or email: 520-318-9291 or [email protected]

On May 4th we begin two online workshops. I have been amazed how well people learn online. I give exercises, demonstrate each, review your work personally, give you homework and review it the next session. Here’s what Jan of Grand Rapids said of the online:

“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 five almost-two-hour lessons, plus 15 minutes for socializing before class. Having the lessons available for two weeks by recording made it easy to review and catch up when I had a conflict.”

THE ONLINES GET TERRIFIC RESULTS!!!!

MONTHLY TIP

We have many orders for just the pens and a pad of paper. I insisted you receive the paper because if you pick a paper that absorbs, the pen won’t run. The pen allows you to have a full range of grey washes like Ansell Adams’ photography. The line is a perfect way to learn watercolor. If you go over the line quickly, it will yield a little bit of wash and remain a line. If you wiggle the brush as you go over it, it will go totally into wash. If you put what I call
“a borrow pit” near the spiral (so it doesn’t show in normal 4 x 6 matting), you can transfer very thin ink anywhere. The pen won’t write on a wet field. Wait for the ink to dry to add another coat for a denser black on an existing wash.

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Happy Sketching!

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