I’m super excited to announce a new in-person workshop on Friday 4 April at Cockatoo Island (my favourite sketching location in Sydney).

When starting urban sketching many people just pick up their pen and begin to draw everything in front of them. They keep drawing and drawing (possibly getting lost in the details) and then decide it’s time to add paint. They are often afraid to add watercolour to their drawing for fear of ‘ruining it’. Can you relate to this?

Thinking about shapes is an important way to simplify complex scenes and it will help prevent creating overworked and over-detailed sketches.

Plus, it’s also a lot of fun!

In this full-day workshop, we’ll explore how shapes can be used to capture the varied scenes of Cockatoo Island. There are so many interesting subjects on the island to sketch and I’m looking forward to sharing lots of tips – not only about shapes, but also how to create more lively watercolour washes with lots of pigment parties. (I might also do a little bit of mixed media work!)

It’s been a few years since I hosted a local workshop, so I’m very happy to be offering an in-person event like this again. 

For those of you who have done (or are doing) my Foundations course – this will be the perfect way to put some of the core concepts from the course into practice on location.

Find out more about the workshop here

Let me know via the contact form here if you have any questions.