Wednesdays, July 16 to August 6, 2025, 12:30 - 3:00 pm, 4 sessions*
Unleash your Creativity with Sketchbooking!
A sketchbook can be a record of your own personal, unique artistic journey. In this class we are going to play in our sketchbooks without worrying about creating beautiful artworks. The aim of the class is to quiet the voices in your head that say your art isn’t good enough and just have fun creating.
The instructors will bring lots of supplies for you to play with. You will only need to bring a pen, pencil, eraser, and a sketchbook.
Each class will start with a warm-up followed by 2 or more demonstrations that you’ll, then try out in your sketchbook. You will fill your sketchbook pages with simple pattern designs, quirky collage scenes and characters, continuous-line, still life, portrait drawings, figure sketches, and mixed media projects that use collage, markers, watercolor paints, stencils, and stamps.
LEVEL
Beginning
SUPPLIES INSTRUCTOR WILL PROVIDE
Watercolor paints and brushes, watercolor markers and other markers, gel pens, watercolor crayons, colored pencils, pastels, collage papers, magazines and magazine cutouts for collage, glue, stamps, stencils, scissors, paper towels.
SUPPLIES FOR STUDENTS TO BRING
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A black waterproof pen. Gelly Roll is Ruby's favorite, but an ultra fine Sharpie or Posca Pen or similar will work.
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A mechanical or a #2 pencil
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Your favorite eraser (for pencil lines)
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A sketchbook: Choose a sketchbook of any size with good paper like good watercolor paper or mixed media paper (NOT drawing paper.) If you have an old sketchbook(s) with blank pages, you can use that. Spiral-bound books are easy to use. Note: The store FIVE BELOW has an HQ Watercolor spiral-bound sketchbook with good paper for $5. It's 9x12" and has a toucan on the cover.
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A #6 or #8 round brush watercolor brush. Princeton SNAP brushes are inexpensive and you can get them at Guiry's or Meiningers.
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A water container and a paper towel or rag
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Bring any other supplies you think you'd like to use in the class (see what supplies the instructor will bring to see what kinds of supplies we'll use.) We are going to be working almost exclusively in water soluble mediums.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Wanda and Ruby have been active Park Hill Art Club members for several years. They share a love of mixed media art and both have extensive backgrounds in teaching and learning. Ruby has kept sketchbooks for 10 years and has recently started a regular daily sketchbook practice. Wanda has practiced her art for decades and has piles of files where she keeps all her practice artwork. After planning this class, she is now thinking that perhaps keeping her practice artwork in a sketchbook is a good idea!
QUESTIONS
Please direct questions to Ruby at akaruby2001@yahoo.com or 303-960-0617.
* NOTE: Doors open at 12:00 and close at 3:30 to give the instructor and students time to set up before class begins and to clean up at the end of each class.
