TEACHERS' WORKSHOP

Home Studio - Tucson, Arizona

WORKSHOPS PAUSED UNTIL AUTUMN 2025

(5-1/2 Days - 34 Hours)
SUPPLIES & LUNCH INCLUDED
​$1500​​​

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After watching Pocket Sketching on PBS, I couldn't stop sketching. When I saw that a teacher's training course was available, I knew that I wanted to learn more.  I would highly recommend Kath's Pocket Sketching Teacher Workshop.  Her weeklong course lays a great foundation toward a successful & rewarding teaching journey.  Her passion, knowledge, preparation and well thought-out teaching notebook made the class extremely valuable.  Kath and her class have had a huge impact on my life.  She continues to mentor me and her lessons really do last a lifetime. Kath, your classes have brought me so much joy.  I enjoy all of the skills and all of the friendships I have made through teaching!

Tiffany Smith, Pocket Sketching® Instructor

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One of the most positive experiences I have ever had.  For four days not a negative, angry remark. You are too fabulous! ​Thank you.

Nancy O

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​WHO? should take this workshop

Artists  & Educators​ (self-taught or formal)

Anyone who loves art and loves to teach

  • Art Teachers in any genre
  • Adult Art Students 
  • Educators looking for something new
  • Teachers overworked & underappreciated
  • Anyone to add income to your joy of teaching
  • JOIN THE FUN!

WHAT? will I be learning

Everything you need to teach this unique trademarked technique

The Easy Bridge To Watercolor​

  • ​​How to teach it 
  • How to demonstrate plein air
  • How to set up the room or plein air 
  • How to enroll students
  • How to individualize it for your market
  • How to fit it into what you already teach (for those who teach)
  • ​The business of independent teaching
  • Marketing​ ​
  • HOW TO HAVE​ FUN TEACHING!

WHERE? can I teach it

Anywhere - On Site or Online - Indoors and/or Plein Aire

You Get To Choose

  • In your home (2 card tables/8 Chairs)  TREMENDOUS TAX ADVANTAGES
  • Zoom workshops online (all info supplied at workshop) NO TRAVEL REQUIRED
  • In a church basement (for donation or minimal room rent)
  • For non-profits - you give them a percentage - they handle venue and advertising
  • WHEREVER YOU CAN TEACH FUN!

WHEN? should I teach it

Whenever You Want to Make $$$

You Make Your Own Schedule

  • ​Days and/or Evenings
  • Weekends
  • Vacations
  • Full time
  • WHENEVER YOU WANT TO HAVE FUN!

WHY? take this class

Exclusive Legacy Class with Nationally Acclaimed Artist 

Passing the Baton

  • Maximum of 5 in a Teacher workshop = increased personal attention
  • All questions answered
  • Add to your current repertoire
  • Get paid to travel (business expenses)
  • IT'S TIME YOU HAVE FUN!

HOW? will it benefit me

Learn Literally Everything You Need to Flourish

So You Can...

  • Be a CERTIFIED Pocket Sketching® Teacher
  • Bring in extra income (​on your terms)
  • Control  your work schedule
  • Teach adults who want to learn & play
  • Be paid what you're worth
  • HOW FUN!

YOU ... Owe It To Yourself!

For Business or For Pleasure - For Yourself and For Others
If you want to:
  • Be CERTIFIED in this genre
  • Add to your existing curriculum
  • Add travel sketching for your tribe
  • Teach from home
  • Teach online
  • Teach & Travel (legitimate tax write-off)
  • ​Set your own hours
  • ​Have your own business
  • Have FUN.  No rules, no politics - all reward​

The Unique Trademarked "®" Technique

Easy to Learn - Easy to Teach
Pocket Sketching® is easy to learn and just as easy to teach.  You just need to know more than your audience and they've never heard of Pocket Sketching.
  • It's compact.  You're fully equipped in inches, including your personal data = no need for a purse or a man's bag.
  • It's portable.  Sketch anywhere - in an airport, in a hospital, hiking, biking, sauntering. Totally unobtrusive & packed away in minutes.
  • It's inexpensive.  Students can get started for cheap and if they discover they don't like it, give the supplies away as a gift.
  • It's fast.  Stop, sketch while you're still interested, and move on, usually in 25 minutes or less.  No fighting with an easel for hours.
  • ​No cleanup, no mess, no rules

Numerous Options

Examples
​Extra Income
  • Teach in your kitchen every Wednesday morning to 7 people for 2 hours (2 card tables) @ $35.00/each = $245/wk x 4 weeks=$980/month.
  • Add Wednesday afternoon = $1960/month
You have tied up only one day per week and augmented your income, made friends, brought learning, had FUN!
And the income tax advantages of having a business in your home are amazing.
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Serious Income (1)
  • Teach 12 people in a church basement at $50 each for 2-1/2 hours once a week = $600/wk x 4 weeks = $2400/month
  • Teach 4 classes = $9600.  Payment to church as rent @ $500.  Income $9,100/month
Serious Income (2)
  • Teach multiple days class (3 days or more) for an  organization
  • Split the income at a percentage
  • They handle advertising, enrollment and venue
  • You just teach and socialize

​​Learn all this and more in a Teacher Workshop!

Teach & Travel

Paid Vacations
  • ​Choose a place you would like to visit. Teach there and stay another week 'to gather material,' writing off the expenses.
  • Team with a travel professional and teach anywhere.
  • Teach on a Cruise Ship
  • Teach a class at resorts or retreats.  Pocket Sketching® becomes a form  of meditation.
  • Teach at art organizations and art museums.
  • ​Teach at a friend's home in another town or state.
The possibilities are unlimited & highly rewarding!

Create Your Legacy

Share the Joy of Creating
​My husband, Dale, and I are ordinary people.  I have worked in biological labs and in real estate.  Dale has been an Air Force fighter pilot and owned a computer training company.  My college degree is in biology.   I had a dynamite junior high art teacher, Opal Berry, in Salem, Oregon.  Because of Mrs. Berry, when the possibility occurred, I studied under four watercolor masters, learning that being perfect did not equate to a living wage.  So I took four years of marketing classes.
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Discovering Pocket Sketching® was an accident on an oil painting trip.  By pure luck I had the right pen, paper that let it run, and a water-loaded brush because I had been doing ‘wash drawing’ with India ink.  I had planned to ‘never teach,' but after three days of experimenting with the Pilot pen, I knew I would have to teach this technique because it is the perfect bridge into watercolor.  It is painless, simple, has no rules.  You get excellent results with the first exercise:  an ‘Ah ha’ moment for everyone!
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Now I can bring to you everything that I have learned over18 years of experimenting and teaching Pocket Sketching® so you can enjoy the delight of teaching it to your students, your family, your friends AND create income in the process.  It is a rare gift! 

​Begin creating your legacy by joining this class.  I just turned 85 years young so I can assure you that age is not an issue. 

​I look forward to playing with you!

Ongoing Support

From Kath and other Certified Pocket Sketching® Teachers
  • No teaching experience necessary - we give it all to you.  You need only know something the student doesn't yet know.
  • Annual PBS Pocket Sketching® shows are advertising for you, providing exposure & short lessons for you to build on.
  • Regular ZOOM sessions  open to you for sharing success and challenges with other teachers and with Kath.
  • The name Pocket Sketching® gets attention.  Watercolor, drawing, oil painting are well-known.  People want to know what Pocket Sketching® is.
  • As a Certified Pocket Sketching® Instructor you get to use the trademark and logo.  We maintain legal service to protect both.
  • You get all the sketching lessons, skills and business knowledge that has been developed over 18 years of my teaching.
  • Order your basic workshop supplies at cost + shipping.  Proprietary supplies discounted to you.
  • Add your image and bio to our Certified Teachers page with a link to your website or flyers
  • Add your workshops/classes to our calendar with a link to you for enrollment/payment

SUMMARY


​​I share with you basically everything I know to make Pocket Sketching® work for you in your market.

You will leave confident to teach both the Basic and Refresher courses both Live & Online.  As new material becomes available, you will be updated.  Home studio is in Tucson, Arizona, centrally located near Grant and Craycroft roads.  

​My goal is to teach teachers to bring this easy-to-learn bridge into watercolor to as many people as possible.  It’s fun, fast, totally portable, with no clean-up:  the perfect answer for todays' fast-paced life.  Who has time to clean brushes, much less schlep tons of messy equipment everywhere?  With your Pocket Sketching® bag you can sketch if you want, go shopping or to a concert, never be bored and take home wonderful personal images of what you thought you saw.  Delightful!​
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Pocket Sketching® Workshops
Learn enough to play for a lifetime!