Doodlewash and Sketchbook Revival

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Sketchbook Revival 2022 with Karen Abend

Text below copied from emails [my hands are hurting too much to write about it]

DAY 1 SESSION 1 - COURTNEY CERRUTI

Sketchbook Play: Exercises to Ignite your Creative Practice 

Warm up with color mixing and discover what can happen when you simply let the natural beauty and playfulness of color be the starting point for your sketchbook practice.

Get out your dip pen and ink (or any other drawing tool) for a series of quick and freeing exercises that make linework practice the perfect compliment to your color play. 

DAY 1 SESSION 2 - CARLA SONHEIM

Zoom Stylized Portraits 

Prep your page with a painted background, then draw the face you are observing as a reference to get down the lines, shapes and interesting details you see, simplifying as you go.

Fill up your page with additional portraits (at least 6!), and then try out some interesting techniques for enhancing, harmonizing and finishing your drawings with coloured pencils and a white paint pen. 

DAY 1 SESSION 2 - MIRIAM SCHULMAN

Artpreneur Affirmations

Sketch out your hand lettered affirmation and basic design in pencil, then ink your final lines with a waterproof black pen.

Experiment with a limited color palette (just 2 colors of paint) and see how you can develop a harmonious balance of mixes ranging from lovely lights, to rich darks, plus new shades from combining the two.

DAY 2 SESSION 2 - LUCIA LEYFIELD

Be Free and Have Fun: How to Loosen Up Your Sketchbook Drawings!

Start with a sketchbook tour to see examples of how both life and memory drawing has a place in any sketchbook or visual journal.

Be guided through a series of quick and freeing timed drawing exercises that alternate drawing from life and memory to experience the power of this practice.

This is what I was trying to draw. The drawings with memory written on them is when I wasn't looking at the cup, it was covered over so I couldn't cheat. The drawings were timed too.

DAY 3 SESSION 1 - JOY TING

Mixed Media Floral Studies 

Get started with some quick and easy thumbnail studies of your bouquet to try out different compositions and warm up with loose sketching, painting, color swatching and note taking.

Take what you learned to a full page in your sketchbook combining expressive drawing and painting with adding definition and interest to the flower and leaf elements using different shades of paint and fun marks.