Sketch by Sketch in Cape Breton: Capturing the Fall colours with artist Emma FitzGerald

Posting Point Pleasant by Emma FitzGerald

Sunday October 9, from 10AM - 12PM

Tickets are $50, all levels are welcome

Workshop description:

Sketch by Sketch in Cape Breton: Capturing the Fall colours with artist Emma FitzGerald

Participants will work with pen, not pencil, freeing up inhibitions and learning to draw quickly in a series of shorter exercises. This will be followed by a landscape drawing with watercolour which will ideally be outside, weather permitting. The exercises will encourage us to learn from each other and the hope is participants will leave with a renewed desire to sketch the world around them. All levels are welcome.

Supplies:

• personal sketchbook

• waterproof fine tip black pen (I use uniball from Staples)

• travel watercolour kit

• 3 watercolour paint brushes; fine, medium and large

  *dress for the weather, bring a folding chair if you like

EMMA FITZGERALD holds a BFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University. She is the author and illustrator of the Hand Drawn Halifax, Hand Drawn Vancouver and Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia's South Shore. She has illustrated children's books, including EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street by Sheree Fitch, and A Pocket of Time: The Poetic Childhood of Elizabeth Bishop, by Rita Wilson an IBBY Canada Cleaver Award nominee. This fall she will release Two Crows a counting fable written by Susan Vande Griek. She often teaches workshops to adults and children alike and encourages people to let go of a desire to make things perfect, instead focusing on what they see and feel when drawing. She lives in Lunenburg, NS.

Photo by Scott Munn