POCKET SKETCHING BY KATH MACAULAY
Perfect for hiking, biking, sitting in a café or standing in line — take it anywhere, whip it out in a minute, preserve a memory in 25 minutes or less and put away with no clean-up.
When: August 1, 2, 3, 2015
Where: Spokane Art Supply
1303 N. Monroe St.
Spokane, WA
Hours: 10:00 to 4:00
Price: $250.00
Deposit: $100.00
Contact and Reservation:
Craig, 509-327-6622
Supplies: Purchase at Spokane Art Supply.
Instructor brings several extra things (such as the custom fanny pack), that are a pleasure but not essential!
Day one: basic technique and landscape, finishing within 25 minutes. Perspective.
Day two: still life, people, and editing things in and out with focal point.
Day three: on location, plein air, using the technique fearlessly anywhere.
Interactive critiques and demonstrations are both given constantly in a very positive, personal atmosphere. Instruction is geared to the individual needs of each person so each achieves their goal.
This workshop is ideal for timid beginners who want to fearlessly paint in public, and perfect for experienced artists who want mobility, minimal equipment and no clean-up.
Learn enough to play for a lifetime!
POCKET SKETCHING BY KATH MACAULAY
Perfect for hiking, biking, sitting in a café or standing in line — take it anywhere, whip it out in a minute, preserve a memory in 25 minutes or less and put away with no clean-up.
When: August 1, 2, 3, 2015
Where: Spokane Art Supply
1303 Monroe St.
Spokane, WA
Hours: 10:00 to 4:00
Price: $250.00
Deposit: $100.00
Contact and Reservation:
Craig 509-327-6622
Supplies: Purchase at Spokane Art Supply
Instructor brings several extra things (such as the custom fanny pack), that are a pleasure but not essential!
Using only a 4 x 6 inch art pad, a water soluble pen, a small paint set, a brush and a film canister of water, Pocket Sketching allows anyone to journal and sketch/paint wherever they are
capturing their “feel” of a place rather than simply taking a thousand pictures the way a camera does.
Benefits: Minimal equipment. Totally portable. A quick personal way of recording what’s immediately in front of you. Meditation. No fear of being “watched” because you’re in your personal space. Ease of carrying. Always ready. No clean-up. Easy to learn for absolute beginners and advanced artists. Use anywhere. Capture your impression: the thing that caught your eye in the first place. Perfect for travel, hiking, kayaking, standing in line.
Learn enough to play for a lifetime!
History of Pocket Sketching Invented by Kath Macaulay
Started in about ’86 by accident on a painting trip as an offshoot to ‘wash drawing’, a difficult technique done with India ink. The India ink indelible line is drawn and immediately ‘run’ with water from a brush to obtain different values, or shades, to either side of the line. If you’re not quick enough, you get just a line drawing that can never be changed. If ink spills, it’s permanent, including on your beige leather upholstery.
I picked up a pen to write to a friend. The brush was always in my hand, by habit. I hit the line, also by habit, and it ran just like India ink. Until used with water, the line can be ‘run’ for years giving a complete value scale. Unlike India ink, it never spills. It not only makes a wash drawing, it mixes perfectly with watercolors, providing the ‘shade’ of almost every color.
Bio Kath Macaulay
Summary
As an artist, I enjoy capturing the moment. There is always a reason to paint something that catches the eye and the mind. Most of my paintings are designed to give the viewer a feeling of serenity, and of having visited the same location. As an instructor I delight in teaching my easy, totally portable, no-clean-up technique to beginners and professionals alike. For the beginner it is an open door to art and seeing the world with a new eye. For the advanced artist, it is a totally portable system for 10 to 25 minute sketches when standing in line, hiking, in a café, on horseback, anywhere. The workshops are well organized, fast, loaded with information. Motto: Learn enough to play for a lifetime!
Experience
Current: full time using/teaching very successful Pocket Sketching ™ workshops nationally.
Some current and recent locations: Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ, Tucson Botanical Garden, Tucson, AZ, Tohono Chul Park, Oro Valley, AZ, Chautauqua Institutes, NY, Peninsula School of Art, Door Co. WI, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID, Dillman’s, Lac du Flambeau, WI, Canyon Ranch, Tucson, AZ.
Previous: artists’ agent for 11 artists, establishing gallery relationships from San Diego, CA to Taos, NM while studying art marketing at NMSU.
Competed successfully with oils and watercolors in national shows and taught oil, watercolor workshops in the southwest. Had several noted one-person shows while residing in New Mexico. Showed internationally via the U.S. State Department.
Education
New Mexico State University, four years marketing aimed at marketing art
University of Arizona, scientific illustration (while teaching watercolor and drawing)
Oregon State University, B.S. biology
Private instruction, master artists: Nick Brigante, Los Angeles, Robert Carl Cogar, Las Cruces,
NM, Bong Wai Chen, Portland, OR, Bob Blair, Buffalo, NY.
Contact: (supplies, DVD’s available), , 520-318-9291, 800-399-3218, 520-870-9990 (cell)