WONDERS OF WONDERS, WE DID IT!

WE DID IT!  THANKS

You have no idea how much I hate soliciting gifts from companies. After all your donations and purchases of ‘Fix’Em’ came in, I thought I still owed between $8000 and $10,000 to get Season Four of Pocket Sketching at PBS out. I had paid for a local studio to film two Episodes here so there would be some plein air included. Then there was money left over from a previous season.

When Phil at WGVU checked with the station's accountant, it was done.  Then NETA approved.  IT HAS BEEN SENT to every station in the US!!!  SEASON 4 IS OUT and AVAILABLE IN YOUR TOWN.  Bug your local station to see it and keep sketching.

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Thanks for Making this Happen!!! 

Your names aren’t on the credits, unfortunately.  I had no idea the funding was complete and they did the usual “Brought to you by viewers like you” or however that goes. Please know it wouldn’t have happened without your support. ​

Workshops

In Tucson we have just finished a live workshop with a small enrollment. Much less stress and really fun. We are currently teaching two Basic Workshops online. We’ve forgotten a lot about the technical end so we get to re-learn. The students are delightedly learning and happy.

Here are your chances to join the fun!
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February 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 I have scheduled a morning and an afternoon Refresher Workshop online. This may well be the last of our online workshops. It’s amazing to me how well people learn in an online. When people do the homework, it’s obvious they caught the lesson. It also helps that the recording is available for two weeks.  Come join us for a review.
      
February 28, March 1 and 2 is a live Refresher Workshop in our home here in Tucson. The weather should be excellent. The nearby Sheraton gives us a special rate. There’s room to enroll. This workshop has a day of review and two days of all new stuff. It’s a great opportunity to get back sketching in case you haven’t had time, plus have fun in a group.

Registration

To register for any of these workshops, please contact me, [email protected] or
520-318-9291. Might I say, “time is running out”?

​Business Opportunity

We are using these workshops to decide if we will keep teaching or not. We’ve had a wonderful ‘run’, met fabulous people, been to some great places, but we’re aging out. If you know someone who would like an exciting business with a huge upside, recommend them to us. 

This would be a business person, not necessarily an artist. This person would not teach, but hire staff teachers, who I could train. Those teachers teach teachers who do workshops in their local towns. This is the Bob Ross model. Bob made $11.4 million in his short time as a business, according to Wikipedia. That’s not chump change. We’ve come a long way. I do not want Pocket Sketching® to disappear!
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Online Gallery

​You can order 4 x 6 reproductions of my sketches for $3.00 each. We will raise the price in the future, but I wanted it to be low so our supporters could order good model sketches inexpensively.  I planned to recommend this system to other artists. It has been a tremendous amount of work for Susan, our webmaster and so far, an expense. When the annual contract runs out this coming summer, we will decide whether to keep it going and whether to recommend it or not. Meanwhile, you might want to check out the reproductions to have as an example.
PS: Be sure to visit the 'Fine Art' section while you're there!

Fine Art & Pocket Sketching®

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​Monthly Tip

​Here's the tip: I have been feeling a lot of stress. With guests I visited our Botanical Garden and stopped to sketch. Instant stress lowering. As you enter into the meditative state of immersion, stress evaporates. Try it, you’ll be amazed. The sketch can be of any quality, the stress relief works. The attached sketches are from our Tucson Botanical Garden at earlier times (and better quality.)

Edna's Eatery

​Blue Morphos

​Barrio Garden

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Happy Sketching!