sketch, glue, and paste

Labels, stickers, stamps can help compose your sketchbook page. Sketch small details of brick walls, doorways, windows, rooftops, and clotheslines around the stickers.

Drop in Studio at Duck Store

March 17, 2012. Drop in Studio at UO Duck Store in Eugene.
Travel sketching tips with Ken O'Connell. 2:00pm to 4:00 pm.

Informational gathering about La Romita School of Art summer workshops and hill towns in Umbria.
Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15th Ave., Eugene, Oregon at 3:30pm Sunday Feb. 26, 2012.

Try using more text with your images in the sketchbook.
At least the date and location of sketch can be added.
Then try a sentence or two about your previous sketch.
Write about what you want to learn to draw better.
Make a list.

Three spaces left in my summer "Sketchbook in Italy" program.

Sketching trees and fields

Sketch the branches of the bare trees this month.
Only 5 spaces left in my 2012 Italy Sketchbook Workshop.
Please let me know if you are interested.

Sketching the New Year

Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year

I wish all of you good health and please continue to work in your sketchbook as part of your good health program in 2012.

Workshops in 2012

Planned workshops:
Feb 11 in Salem at "The Art Department" store (one day). http://artdepartmentsupply.com/
March 17 a "Drop in Studio" at the UO Duck shop (two hours). http://myduckstore.com/creativeduck/index.cfm
July 7 and 8th Sitka Center for Art and Technology on the Oregon Coast (two days). http://www.sitkacenter.org
September 2-16 "Sketchbooks in Italy" (14 days) (For more information contact me at ken@copicmarker.com)