Susan Walker Art Workshops and Classes

Artful Journal Summer Workshop North of Pittsburgh PA in Butler County

2011-07-19T05:52:00.000-07:00

Visit to Cabella Outdoor Store. Where the Models are cooperative

Sketches and notes done on site and background added at home

Artful Journal: Monday August 8 through Thursday August 11, 2011 10:30 am - 12 noon

7 years to 15 years

Portersville PA (North of Pittsburgh,PA)

In this 4 day class you will increase your drawing skills in a visual art journal.Nature subjects,background applications,note taking and and adding embellishments will be some of the ways we connect to the environment around us.
Materials supplied: colored pencils, sketch pencils, glue stick,scissors and misc embellishments.

A sketchbook journal for everyone to keep will be included for each student.
Four day class $40.00

Or send Check along with name, email and phone number and dates you are registering for to: Susan Walker Art ,1612 Perry Highway, Portersville PA 16051

Notes and drawing of a pod and walnut shell

Visual Travel Journal Summer Workshop North of Pittsburgh PA in butler County

2011-07-07T15:19:00.000-07:00

Visual travel Art Journal:Mon. June 27 through Thurs.June 30, 2011. 10:30 am - 12 noon
7 years and up
Portersville, PA. (North of Pittsburgh,PA)

In this 4 day class you will learn how to record your summer vacation in a visual journal. Whether you are an arm chair traveler or have big travel plans. We will learn how to capture whats in front of you with sketches, embellishments and journal topics that will add to your memories of your adventures.

Travel kit items will be discussed

Materials supplied: colored pencils,sketch pencils,scissors,glue stick and miscellaneous paper embellishments.
A sketch journal will be included for each student to keep.
Four day class $40.00

Jacob, age 6, Hilton Head SC

Artful Journal: Monday August 8 through Thursday August 11, 2011 10:30 am - 12 noon

7 years and up

Portersville PA (North of Pittsburgh,PA)

Materials supplied: colored pencils, sketch pencils, glue stick,scissors and misc embellishments.

A sketchbook journal for everyone to keep will be included for each student.
Four day class $40.00
Or send Check along with name, email and phone number and dates you are registering for to: Susan Walker Art ,1612 Perry Highway, Portersville PA 16051

Finding Sketch Time Can be the Number One Challenge. Some Sketches I Have Done During the Time I Carve Out

2011-06-23T06:07:00.000-07:00

Here are few more of my sketches. As a mom of four, most of my drawing ans sketching time is done while out at appointments and on fields during practices.So my travel sketches are mostly from my daily taxi service travels. Over the years I have become comfortable with doing this out in public. Honestly no one seems to notice. Or at least very few ask me what I am drawing. This how you can easily build your own travel sketchbook. We talk and work on this in my Travel Sketching class and Artful Journal Workshop.

This is actually while at the beach in Erie

A planter in front of the school

Done while kids waited for a fishing tournament weigh in.

While I sat at the pool with the kids

These three were done while shopping at Cabala's. I added the watercolor wash at home later.

I was watching Colton's baseball game.

Waiting room people

Poolside again.

In a pinch I always have my pen, Twistables(R) and sketchbook. Other times I add color with the watercolor and gel pens. My kids like the Crayola Twistables a lot too. they travel so nice as they don't need sharpened or melt in the car...so far.
As you see they are not fancy but it is a way to relax for me and sharpen my drawing skills. I don't always have time to spend an hour sketching or painting but I can take 5 minutes and get some marks down and feel good that I have.

Some of the places I sketch now: parking lots: waiting for kids. I even go a few minutes early to sit and draw more. All doctors appointments. Practice field and during games. Pirate Game-they way they play at times...it's the only exciting thing to do for me. Church- I now have gotten comfortable sketching and taking notes during pastors sermon. That can be 45 minutes some times! And I actually remember more out of it. Then the one that I don't often share: in the bathtub. I set something up on the sink to draw, pour some bubbles, a nice drink and take extra time sketching. I do this before or after the bath as well. I have my sketchbook with me all the time. It is the first thing I pack to go anywhere, then snacks,then kids. Gotta have priorities. I often don't use it like I hoped but it is there for any moment i can capture.

So where do you sketch?

Sample pages from a Travel Journal

2011-05-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

Few journal pages from am family trip to the water park.

Base of this journal is the hotel brochure. Adding words cut from other travel brochures found in the lobby to add more personalization such as the date and location. I also added another stop we had this weekend. Making the entire brochure cover the three days of travel and fun.

Kids added drawings they did while we waited for dinner. Making fun notes.

This one here shows you in the upper right corner how I added about our stay in another hotel. I wrote notes about the loud people above us on the hotel note pad...a LONG sleepless night. Just using a glue stick and placing the images in a way to show some of the photos of the brochure I liked.You can always plan on saving parts of a page to add your photos once they are developed too.

Materials I took: a large Ziploc bag with an acid free glue stick,scissors, mechanical pencil,Crayola Twistable (R). Sketchbook paper cut to fit in baggie. Then used found papers,restaurant kids menus and brochures found in lobby.