Designed around Sasha Prood's 3rd book Pencil Workshop: Develop Your Sketching Skills in 50 Experiments, this one day course will bring a sense of experimentation and fun to sketching with graphite, colored, and watercolor pencils. Students will receive a copy of her book as a part of tuition, to start using in class, and to continue to learning from after the course is complete.
During this workshop, Prood will cover introductory techniques like hatching, contouring, and stippling, as well as more advanced skills like building textures, introducing gradients and contrast, and the use of blending tools. Students will start off the day developing a series of swatch tests to reference when creating future work. During the second half of the class, students can move on to developing small compositional studies, further practicing their skills. These swatch tests are small studies will make beautiful framed wall art as well!