Buderim Craft Cottage

What to expect 

This workshop will get you into a daily habit of nature drawing in the context of a sketchbook. With a simple kit of materials, you can carry with you everywhere, you will discover that you can be opportunistic about drawing from the natural world, and this can help get us into daily creative habits of observation, discovery, and wonder.  

 

You will run through different drawing exercises and practise your skills. You will explore the versatility of pen, ink and watercolour as a fast and fun way to record observations in the natural world. You will look at mark making and try different types of ink media in soluble and non-soluble with the addition of quick watercolour washes and glazes. 

 

Subject matter will include found objects, taxidermy and field trips outside.  

 

The sketchbook will be explored as in incubator, a friend, a personal, intimate, and honest playground. Sketchbooks are just for us, a safe space with no pressure to perform, a place to relax, a window into our thoughts and dreams, and a visible record of a life observed, to be thumbed back through in times of creative drought.  

 

We will discover that we CAN draw and that any time is a good time to build our creative habits! 

 

About your tutor 

Deb’s contemporary art practice is 30 years young and involves drawing, painting, public art and small sculpture.  Her work has been built around the search for collected personal objects and curated public museum collections which can become metaphors for shifting memory, collections, and value.  

 

Deb holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art and has had 19 solo shows and been involved in more than 70 group shows in both regional and commercial galleries. She has won several awards and been a finalist in many National art prizes including the Bale Painting Prize, the Salon de Refuses, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, and Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing. 

 

Deb has over 18 years teaching experience with workshops and artist in residencies. Deb is committed to a daily sketchbook practice and loves to share the potential that is within everyone to carry a sketchbook and use it to record life. 

 

What will I need to bring? 

Morning tea and lunch are included in fee! 

Essential - A5 or A4 sketchbook  

• Pages suitable for wet media 150gsm-200sm paper.  (Fabriano Venezia Art Book hardback, or Stillman and Birn Alpha series soft or hard cover are suitable.) 

Something to draw with (both soluble and non-soluble)  

• Pens, e.g., Pigma Micron PN (permanent) in brown or black, Artline 200 Fineliner (water-soluble) black 

• 2B mechanical pencil 

• Water-soluble coloured pencils 

• Biros, fountain pens, etc.  

Other materials:  

• Large Pental water brush 

• Best quality watercolour tube paints or a travel kit.  Suggest: warm and cool of each primary: Blue, Yellow,
  Red, plus Sap Green, Naples Yellow (Daniel Smith), Paynes Grey, and or a violet/purple of choice.  

Don’t go out buying heaps, except a sketchbook.

Bring what you have, and we will chat about what you might supplement your kit with.