Sketch Your Life: Create Expressive Sketches in Pen and Watercolor

Sketch Your Life: Create Expressive Sketches in Pen and Watercolor is a class that helps narrate your story that is full of color and life. It helps you remember more of the detail, feeling and presence of a place, person or thing because of how you deliberately slow down to truly see the beauty and fragility of every moment.

Through this class you will learn how to see and observe with your eyes, to record what you see by sketching loosely in pen, and to paint expressively in watercolor. This class is for everyone young and old alike. The goal is to be able to express oneself by capturing the life around us through quick sketches and paints. 

By the end of this class, you are encouraged to bring your sketchbooks wherever you go and fill it up daily with sketches that tell your life stories worth sharing with the world.

Image: sketch of commuters waiting patiently for the train home (pen and watercolor on sketchbook)

• Welcome to Class
• Materials - Sketchbook and Pen
• Materials - Watercolour Paints and Packing Light
• How to See and Observe
• How to Choose Your Subject
• Structure in Linework
• Mood in Shading
• Simplicity in Details
• Create a Color Chart
• Create Value Contrast in Colors
• Mix Colors on Paper
• Watercolour Techniques
• Japanese Garden Sketch
• Japanese Garden Paint
• Sketch Your Life Often