Thursdays, December 4 to December 18, 2025, 9:30am - 12:00pm, 3 sessions*

Unleash your Creativity with Sketchbooking!

Sketchbook Studio is a chance for artists who have considered starting a regular sketchbook practice, and for artists who just want to loosen up and have some fun creating with other artists.

In Sketchbook Studio you will play in your sketchbooks without worrying about creating beautiful artworks. One aim of the class is to quiet the voices in your head that say your art isn’t good enough, and just have fun creating.

Ruby will bring lots of supplies for you to play with. You will only need to bring a few basic supplies, making it easy to get away for an afternoon of art play. Mostly, we will sketch in ink and color our sketches. We’ll use markers, pens, pencils, crayons, watercolor, and ink to explore and experiment with some techniques to help get you started with a doable, regular art practice.

By the end of this 3-week class, you’ll have several new ideas and techniques to keep you busy filling your sketchbook pages. Perhaps you’ll also begin to uncover a path to discovering more about yourself as an artist.

If you have already taken Park Hill Art Club’s Creative Sketchbooking class in July, please join us again. It will be all new exercises.

LEVEL

Beginning

SUPPLIES FOR STUDENTS TO BRING

Sketchbook, any size, with watercolor or mixed media paper.

A black waterproof ink pen (like Micron or Gelly Roll )or a black ultra fine point marker like Sharpie.

A piece of bubble wrap like the kind that comes in a mailing envelope. (Ruby will have some to share if you can't find any.)

A couple of watercolor brushes. Ruby mostly will use a #4 round and sometimes a 1" flat. Guiry's has some SNAP brushes that are economical.

If you have a watercolor set you want to bring, please do.

A container for water and paper towels or a rag.

Ruby will bring plenty of supplies to share , but you will definitely need a sketchbook (often called "art journal") with decent paper like mixed media or watercolor paper, not paper that is for drawing. Don't buy something new if you already have a sketchbook with paper that can withstand water and it has empty pages. The store Five Below sometimes has cheap art journals that work ok.

SUPPLIES INSTRUCTOR WILL PROVIDE

Watercolor brushes

Tombow water-based markers

Black Gelly Roll Pen and Black Sharpie Ultra Fine Marker

Caran d'Ache Neocolor II crayons

Derwent Intense Ink Pencils

Bubble wrap and paper tubes for stamping

Assortment of markers, colored pens, and pencils

Watercolor Paints

Pencils and eraser for sketching

Water container

Personal sketchbook

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Ruby is a mixed media artist, experienced teacher, and former PHAC board member who is currently in love with her daily sketchbooking practice. She would love sharing her simple, easy, and fun ways to start or expand your own regular art practice.

QUESTIONS

Please direct questions to Ruby at akaruby2001@yahoo.com or 303-960-0617.

* NOTE: Doors open at 12:00 and close at 3:30 to give the instructor and students time to set up before class begins and to clean up at the end of each class.