2 Day sketching workshop with Matt [Tooninator] Boismier in Gibsons
Over two days you’ll explore high-level concepts:
✔ Mark-making techniques that feel alive
✔ Choosing tools that actually help you
✔ Drawing from life with purpose
✔ Confident linework (no wimpy strokes)
✔ Quick ideation & thumbnail sketching
✔ Simple perspective that actually works
✔ Compositional flow: tangents, eye movement, balance
✔ Avoiding the “symbols” trap
✔ Caricature & editorial impact
✔ Speed + intention
✔ Most importantly – how to convey feeling
This workshop is for anyone who wants to:
* Improve their sketching practice
* Learn foundations that empower creative growth
* Create stronger paintings through ideation
* Learn to self-critique
* Build confidence
Tuesdays from 10-1 from Sept to May with late Dec break. We draw under natural light in the gallery. Our models reflect a range of age and gender. We welcome budding artists and experts alike, no experience necessary, no competition, no pressure, just concentration and direct observation of the undraped human body. Easels, drawing boards and chairs are provided. Artists draw with pencils, charcoals, watercolours, pastels, inks, watercolours, digital drawing…
Fee $20 cash paid at each session.
We start at 10 am sharp. Please arrive at 15-30 minutes early to set up. We start with quick 1-minute gestures, then a 5, 10, 15, 20 and 20 minute poses. Bring lunch or snack as we have a half hour break 11:30-noon then we have 2 final 30 minute poses. Many hands helps put equipment away.
Made possible by a Neighbourhood Small Grant, this workshop takes place over two Sunday mornings, June 8 and 15, 10-12. During the workshop, we meet at a trailhead in Langdale for to walk through the forest while engaging in creative processes. It is a combination of mindful walking, forest bathing, and seeing our surroundings with fresh eyes and ears. We will work with various media and prompts from sketching to monoprint, to making ephemeral artworks. All materials will be supplied. The meeting point and directions will be sent out prior to the start time as it will depend on weather and other factors. No experience required, and children are welcome to join their adults. To register, please email Helena at hwadsley@telus.net.
Tuesdays June 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th, 6pm – 8pm. Join us with artist Bruce Edwards to learn Life Drawing techniques with a posing model in four fun sessions. Explore ways to deal with proportion, shading, and fundamental anatomy. A fun, relaxed, non-judgemental approach to this age-old practice. Cost: $120 includes all four workshops. Find more information and register online via EventBrite!
