The Travel Sketchbook Workshop

Learn a pen and wash style to quickly get your ideas and observations down whilst out and about on your adventures. The perfect workshop for you before your summer holidays. With guidance from experienced sketch Artist Alison Jacobs who has ‘pen and washed’ her way from Lands End to John O Groats (the sketches from her trip will be on display as inspiration). Learn to use essential tools such as brush pens, pencils, travel watercolours and how to make quick sketches from life whether capturing interesting details or and exciting scene.

Please bring favourite pocket sketchbook, pens and brushes, some pocket watercolour kits and sketchbooks available available to borrow.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER:

Alison is a painter, arts enabler and educator from Somerset.

She has a HND in Graphic Design from Somerset University and a BSc Hons Geography from Derby University. Alison was a branded packaging and marketing designer in London and worked for many well known clients.

Alison was a founder member of Contains Art in Watchet and Hatch Langport, is a member of Gallery4Art and a studio holder at East Quay Watchet. Her paintings have won her awards at The Atkinson Gallery Open Exhibition and the Quartz Festival Taunton. Her multimedia piece The Stolford Weather Report created during lockdown was awarded a bursary to exhibit at The Princess Theatre Burnham on Sea.