About Pocket Sketching®
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About Pocket Sketching®
PERFECT FOR TRAVEL
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Pocket Sketching® brings a whole new light to the joy of travel and the pleasure of any day, anywhere. Something catches your eye making it the instant focal point. When you later look at your sketchbook, it brings back everything – smells, sounds, details.
It’s an immersive, exciting new way of seeing. Quick & easy to learn, compact and totally portable. Pocket Sketching® is ideal for travel. |
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DON'T YOU WISHyour photographs looked as good as you remember the location? The “Ah Ha!” moment? They don’t because the camera shows exactly what was there. You are different. You have a brain and a lifetime of experience plus the emotion of the moment. That is the magic filter through which you see your environment. You are the magic the camera can’t capture.
INTERACTIVE CRITIQUES AND DEMONSTRATIONS are both given constantly. Each person states what they want from the workshop at the beginning: individual needs are constantly addressed so people achieve their goals in a very positive, personal, atmosphere. |
Evolution
From Easel to Pocket Sketching®
by Kath Macaulay
I’d planned to never teach anything in art and was very successful in competitive shows in both oil painting plain air, and in watercolor; in fact had had several top one-man shows and had won several Best in Show awards. Then, on a 3 – 4 week painting trip using oils and India ink to draw, accidentally discovered the water soluble pen and spent three days with my first Pilot Razor Point. I found it is the perfect way to get into painting with watercolor, is the skeleton of a drawing and the source of greys. The result? I knew then I’d have to teach someday. Then came two impressive experiences.
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GLACIER NATIONAL PARKTo paint with oils in Glacier National Park, I found the perfect place at the base of a trail to leave the van with the dog in shade for the day on a gorgeous sunny day, then headed up the trail with my loaded Julian easel and tote filled with reagents, cleaning equipment, paper towels, five prepared 8 x 10 panels, etc. In about a half mile I came to the perfect place and painted a lovely scene, then marked the trail and left the painting where no one would notice, and headed on up the trail. When I got to the next perfect spot, there were even a few clouds. Painted and left the second painting, then continued up the trail. The third perfect spot had more clouds and I left that one beside the trail and continued. The fourth stop had dramatic clouds and the painting was even better. The fifth stop was magnificent with major clouds as I got out the easel, set it up, squished out the paints and began to ‘catch’ it when the downpour began. Immediately the easel was full of water and I was soaked. Then the hail started as I tried to roll up the paints, rinse the brushes in paint thinner, close the box with sleet, hail and rain in everything and start down the trail (about 2 miles out).
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THE BEARThere was a black bear ambling towards me so I watched my speed. The bear turned and I started trotting with all the stuff to the fourth painting. It was easy to anchor it on the easel behind the 5th painting. Now it’s still raining and getting dark fast because of the clouds. This is grizzly country and I had not seen a person all day. Trot faster to #3 and pick it up with finger tips. #2 was added backwards. Then, still trying to hurry, I got to #1, tried to load it and everything slipped together, including my long hair, ruining all five paintings and getting paint everywhere.
The rain let up as I approached the van. Zuela, the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, wanted to get out and play and get her dinner. I fed her, cleaned my hair with paint thinner, cleaned up my soaked, leaking equipment including the brushes, ate a few crackers and crawled into my sleeping bag reeking of paint thinner, hungry, tired and totally wet. The dog was happy.
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POCKET SKETCHING®The next morning I headed up the trail again, this time with my Pocket Sketching equipment, a Chinese hat and a plastic parka. Would ya guess the weather was the same! And I sketched past the previous day’s fifth stop, got several great sketches, including one under the big hat in the rain, then casually walked down, fed and walked the dog, made some dinner and used the non-stinky sleeping bag. I got the lesson.
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SECOND LESSON
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As a runner, I could go on trails, stop, sketch, instantly close up and continue running. It worked in the hospital when my then husband had surgeries. It worked in a concert when I didn’t like the composer. It worked in O’Hare airport for a 4 ½ hour layover, and even in coach on an airplane. I went to Europe two years ago for the first time and took a handsome purse, plus my sketching bag. Never used the purse! The bag had all my I.D. - Passport, money, cards - and allowed me to pick to shop or sketch. Too much fun!
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Now that I’m older, I love being able to sketch anywhere with total portability, compact equipment, no notice by other people and no clean-up. As you also get older, you’ll be amazed to be able to sketch, paint and be creative with total freedom anywhere you go and have all your equipment in one small fanny pack with a cross-body strap. “When you have the bag, it’s all inside!”
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Pocket Sketching® Workshops
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