Travel Journal Sketching Workshop

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Instructor:  Darsie Beck

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Class Description:

In this class, you will learn how to create your own travel sketch journal, and enhance your travel experience with memory-creating sketches. You will also learn the centering qualities of sketching, and how to work easily with watercolor pencils, watercolors, micron pens and water-brush.

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Date and Time: 

One class, two consecutive days, Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27, 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM at Swiftwater Gallery and offsite sketching location TBD

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Class Fees: 

$175.00 per student, paid to Swiftwater Gallery.

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Materials:

Students will need to purchase in advance of class watercolor pencils, a 5x8 watercolor journal and a medium-tip water-brush. The instructor will supply a specific list of materials and where to purchase them about 2 weeks prior to class.

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Experience Level: All levels welcome

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Class size: Minimum: 5; Maximum: 8

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About the Instructor:

Darsie Beck is a self-taught watercolor and acrylic maritime and landscape painter. “I am an Urban Sketcher affiliated with the Tacoma and Seattle chapters and a founding member of the Port Townsend Urban Sketcher Chapter. I have taught this workshop on island at waterworks studio, VCA, and Gather, Port Townsend School of the Arts, WSU Pullman, Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door in Edmonds, Northwest Maritime Center, Centrum and Northwind Art School in Port Townsend and scheduled to teach at the Grover Gallery in Port Towsend in September. From 2001 to 2008 I facilitated Julia Cameron’s Artists Way workshops on island at waterworks studio. I have traveled extensively and recorded where I have been and what inspired me to sketch in my journals. I began sketching in earnest in 1974. “

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*Must be paid to be fully registered

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* Registration deadline is Thursday, June 19th, 2025​​​

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