Pack up your pencils and pens and spend a weekend sketching and exploring   some of Whidbey Island's special places. From picturesque Langley to historic Coupeville, join other sketchers in a visual treasure hunt.

This weekend class will encourage lots of simple quick drawings that offer a creative and fun path to strengthen observation and drawing skills.  You will build mastery of the visual language in a way that fits into everyday life, and creates a wonderful record of memories. 

Topics covered will include how to organize and simplify materials for easy portability, getting comfortable on location, selecting a subject and freeing up to work more quickly and spontaneously.  Instructor demonstrations will involve recognizing and understanding the descriptive qualities of line, light and dark,  color, and drawing people.

Open to all levels, anyone wanting to get away for a weekend, play and learn in your sketchbook while enjoying a beautiful and friendly environment.
Sketchbooks are a place of pure play for me, Sketching is a way to fully experience where I am, a way of relating to where I live, what I’m doing, and where I’m going.  With a sketchbook available, I’m never bored – sketching people while waiting in line at Costco, the back of a pickup truck when stuck in traffic.

My sketchbox has traveled to Japan, Central America and Europe, and I can look at these and I’m immediately drawn back to what it was like to be there.  I can remember exactly what was going on around me, even though it was years ago.

http://whidbeyislandfas.com/workshops/materials/faye_castle_materials.pdf

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