These fun and dramatically effective Nature Sketching Workshops can have participants drawing confidently in less than a day! Here are some comments from workshop participants. OTHER UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Are you receiving Irene's occasional workshop newsletter with information about upcoming workshops plus articles on useful sketching tips gleaned from her years of teaching workshops? Click on the blue button to receive these Drawing Workshop Updates. IRENE BRADY'S WORKSHOP LIST Details and presenter requirements are available to workshop organizers on request. Please contact Irene for more information. 1. Nature and Landscape Drawing for Beginners-2 days          ~add outdoor landscape sketching trip for a 3-day workshop          more about this workshop 2. Nature Drawing and Watercolor Pencil Painting      for Intermediate and Experienced Artists-2 days          ~add advanced watercolor pencil painting instruction for a 3-day workshop          ~then add outdoor watercolor pencil landscape sketching for a 4-day workshop          more about this workshop 3. Creative Journal Writing and Sketching in Color      for Nature Lovers-3 days          ~add advanced sketching/journaling session for a 4-day workshop          more about this workshop 4. Creative Journal Writing and Sketching in Color      (topic selected by organizer) -3 days          ~add advanced sketching/journaling session for a 4-day workshop          more about this workshop 5. Field Sketching and Rendering for Amateur and      Professional Naturalists and Researchers      (topic selected by organizer) 3 or 4 days          more about this workshop      All tools and materials required for projects/assignments within the workshops are provided for the students’ use while in the class. Workshop participants keep the illustrated workbooks that cover and review techniques taught in the classes. While sufficient art-quality paper is included in each workbook for in-class drawing, students are encouraged to bring their own tools and sketchbooks for out-of-class sketching. For classes featuring watercolor pencil painting instruction, watercolor pencils, paper and paintbrushes will be supplied for in-class painting, but students must bring their own supplies for out-of-class painting assignments. For journaling classes, students are asked to bring unlined journals in which to create their out-of-class journal pages. They may bring a journal-in-progress if desired. There is a supply fee of $15 for all workshops. Students in Field Sketching and Rendering for Amateur and Professional Naturalists and Researchers Workshops are also required to purchase the textbook Illustrating Nature ~ Right-brain Art in a Left-brain World. ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS Irene Brady's sketching workshops are designed to be flexible. If you only want a short workshop, you can choose the basic course. If you'd like to arrange for a longer experience, simply add another day as noted above. Additional days are not simply repeats of previous days, since new techniques or outdoor activities are offered on the additional days. Outdoor activities should only be planned during parts of the year when good weather can be expected. However, suitable indoor resources (greenhouse, museum exhibits, or other indoor drawing possibilities), which can be substituted in case of inclement weather, might make a workshop with scheduled outdoor sketching possible year-round. These workshops are suitable for adults and motivated children 12 and up, with a maximum of 18 students per class so that everyone can receive personal attention as needed. Irene provides all supplies used in the class, including paper, graphite pencils, erasers, blenders, brushes, a wide array of watercolor pencils, objects to sketch and other supplies. When a workshop description specifically includes out-of-class sketching assignments, participants should bring their own supplies. Participants take home the valuable sketching, landscape drawing and watercolor pencil technique guides written and illustrated by the artist and used by the student during the course of the workshop. Read what nature center event organizers have to say about Irene Brady's workshops. And here are reviews from experienced and beginning artists. For more information about Irene, click on the photo at left. For more information or to arrange for a workshop, call 541-535-3189 or contact Irene via email (recommended) Return To Top All images, graphics, and text on this website COPYRIGHTED © 2008, by Nature Works. All rights reserved worldwide.