Sketching Outdoors

with Sheelah Tolton

$5

Online through Zoom
June 2 - June 23 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm
once a week, every Tuesday
$5 per week for everyone
Materials not included
ages 12 and over welcome

Have you come across a view while hiking or travelling and wished you could capture it on paper?  Are you an artist who has tried to sketch a landscape or street scene and became frustrated over your materials or how to capture its complexity?  If you said yes, this is the class for you! Over the course of this 4-week course, instructor Sheelah Tolton will introduce you to her tried and true methods for drawing outdoors, including how to put together a functional and versatile kit with pencil, ink and colour, how to interpret what you are seeing to simplify, and much more.

This is an online course that will help equip you for your next outdoor drawing excursion.

Weekly Outline:
Week 1 | June 2 - Drawing supplies for Plein air and making/carrying a kit, examples from my sketchbooks and from others, and intro sketching exercises like blind contours, hatching etc.

Week 2 | June 9 - Perspective and composition.  Figuring out how much and what to draw when you have limited time using thumbnails, simplification, values.

Week 3 | June 16 - Natural Landscapes exercise in pencils.

Week 4 | June 23 - Architecture and man-made objects with pen + water/watercolour.

Materials you will need:

• watercolour Sketchbook

• a light pencil (~HB),

• a dark pencil (~6B)

• a sharpener

• eraser

• water-soluble ink pen or fine-tip marker (not ballpoint)

• permanent ink pen or marker (fine-tip or brush tip)

• small round watercolour brush

• large round watercolour brush

• watercolour paint or pencils (variety or 2 colours at least)