The Creative Sketchbook

Jumpstart your artistic practice with an open, exploratory approach to keeping a sketchbook. This workshop uses a sketchbook to enhance your ability to generate ideas and think critically about your work. We’ll start with a non-evaluative approach, working with little planning, responding to mark-making and writing prompts. Varied materials – gouache, colored pens, and markers – will be used to develop an open, reflective sketchbook practice. At the close of the workshop, you will have a better understanding of what’s unique about your art making practice, and about how you see and respond.

Susan Moss has been marking on surfaces since a child: on paper tablecloths, fabric, archival paper, large and small. Her drawing and textile work has been exhibited in over eighty venues. At Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO), she has taught all levels of drawing, contemporary textile art and seminars focused on developing visual ideas.

• Brushes, pens, pencils, markers that you especially like

• A sketchbook (doesn't have to be new, could be "in progress")

• A sketchbook

• Gouache paint

• Watercolor brushes

• Gel pens and an array of pencils including water-soluble, markers

• Miscellaneous drawing supplies and paper

• Plastic pipettes

• X-acto knife

• Frog tape

• Workshop booklet with prompts, inspiration, and post-workshop support.