NEXT WORKSHOP: Wednesday 11th June.
Shaun offers a growing number of workshops, details below. The content, format and dates are constantly being updated to suite users’ needs. Why not submit your preferences on this Poll?
Spaces are limited to ensure maximum quality of attention to each participant. Typically, workshops will be suitable for the range between beginners to improvers. But additional options can be made available for absolute beginners and also for expert level. Please ask. Workshops can vary depending upon ability levels – per workshop. My preference is for outdoor working, where participants will absorb the feel of the location and retain the sounds and smells… (this is just not possible when simply using a photo as your drawing reference indoors).
This is one of the simplest and most affirdabe and portable art forms – participants will acquire a skill which can be easily taken anywhere – and enjoyed for a lifetime.
#1. Group starter workshop
NEXT WORKSHOP:
Wednesday 11th June 2025 – Wimborne
Option #1: This group starter sketching workshop will be suitable for beginners to improvers. Limited to five places and described full here, members of this small, friendly group will gain an immersive insight to this very portable, affordable and popular art form. With personal tuition, exploration of materials and techniques, with plenty of hands-on outdoor sketching, all participants will start to acquire an art skill which can be easily taken anywhere – and enjoyed for a lifetime (includes one-hour working lunch critique). Non-inclusive refreshments and lunch options available.
Suitable for: beginners to improvers.
Workshop fee: £75pp Includes basic starter sketching kit!
#2. Group, six-week immersive workshop
Option #2: Join a small group of fellow sketchers for an immersive series of six, half-day outdoor sessions (10.00am-1.00pm). Each session will explore different aspects, materials and techniques – building upon the skills, knowledge and experiences developed throughout the full six sessions. Weekly project skills will also be supplied to practice in own time at own pace. Although always local to the BCP conurbation, the host venue may vary from session to session, in order to offer fresh sketching challenges. Full details upon publication of next event.
Suitable for: beginners to improvers.
Workshop fee: £45pp/session (£270 total).
#3. One-to-one full day workshop
Option #3: A full day bespoke and personal session, six hours of tutored content tailored to suit you, your abilities and your requirements, by previous discussion. Using a local coffee lounge or similar as our base, but going out to sketch. Includes one-hour working lunch critique.
Timeframe: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Suitable for: beginners to improvers.
Workshop fee: £280
#4. One-to-one half day workshop
Option #4: A half day bespoke and personal session, three hours of tutored content tailored to suit you, your abilities and your requirements, by previous discussion. Using a local coffee lounge or similar as our base, but going out to sketch. Includes coffee & pastries.
Timeframe: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Suitable for: beginners to improvers.
Workshop fee: £140
#5. Concertina Sketchbooking Walk
Option #5: Enjoy working in a multi-page concertina sketchbook (included in cost) as we walk from point-to-point exploring a local town. This will be a tutored and guided half-day workshop (10.00am-1.00pm), working in a range of mixed media and opting to complete as many pages for each sketch as we wish! Bring small kit of sketching materials, stool, backpack, packed lunch.
Timeframe: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Suitable for: beginners to improvers.
Workshop fee: £45pp/session.
#6 Campervan-based Sketchbooking
Option #6: My campervan will provide the host venue for these full day (10.00am – 4.00pm) tutored workshops, offering the facility for brewing up tea & coffee, as well as a focal point for sketch ‘throwdown’ appraisals. Destinations range from; Baiter & Poole Quay, Mudeford Quay, Kimmeridge for boat sheds & Clavell Tower. Bring a picnic lunch and folding chair.
Timeframe: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Suitable for: beginners to improvers.
Workshop fee: £65pp/session.
#7. Absolute beginner to Sketching
Option #7. I have received demand for a workshop dedicated to introducing absolute beginner’s to the art of sketching, and the joys which lie ahead for urban sketching and sketchbooking. This workshop would be two half-days 10.00am – 1.00pm, over two weeks, based at a local coffee lounge but venturing out into town for sketching practice now and again.
Suitable for: Absolute beginners, both young and mature adults who have no, or little real art experience, but have a desire to learn a new hobby and who are beginning an interest in art. All participants will be of a similar, beginners level.
Workshop fee: £45pp/session. Includes a free starter pack of sketchpad, pencil and fineliner pen.
Sketchbooking workshop enquiry
To express an interest in a workshop or to find out more, please contact me using the form below.
You can book and pay for the Tuesday 20th May 2025 workshop in the ‘Buy art‘ online store.
Thank you, Shaun 🙂
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General outline information
All-abilities welcome. Tutoring matched to each personal level within the group. A positive and friendly attitude is encouraged. Own transport needed to join given location(s). Always sketching outdoors from life, unless very wet, when an indoor public venue will be switched to. Bring own equipment, but occasionally some materials supplied or available to try for experiment with. Basic typical equipment; cartridge or watercolour paper/pad, pencil, eraser, fineliner pen(s) or fountain/ dip pen & ink, watercolours or coloured pencils/pastels, or charcoal. Lightweight carryable seat.
NB: Choice advice on all materials will be given upon booking, as well as in the workshop.
Cancellation: To avoid 50% non-returnable cancellation fee, notice is required at least five days prior to the event day.
A wide choice of refreshments, drinks, cakes, snacks, soft and alcoholic beverages will be available to purchase at our base venue.
There is no on-site parking at the venue – but plenty of car parks in easy walking distance. Venue is also mere minutes away from main bus stops.
All participants are responsible for their own belongings, safety and wellbeing.
