Inspired by Nature - Online Sketching Retreat 01-07 June 2025
Registration is OPEN NOW for the Inspired by Nature Online Sketching Retreat
Join the Inspired by Nature 🌿 7-day online retreat to reconnect with yourself through mindful sketching and nature observation. Suitable for all skill levels, this journey offers daily guidance to help you slow down and find joy in the natural world.
Here’s what you’ll enjoy:
🎨 Daily Sketching Tutorials: Step-by-step guidance to bring nature into your sketchbook. 📝 Journaling Prompts: Simple daily questions to help you to reconnect with yourself 🧘 Guided Meditations: Optional sessions to to help you to relax and unwind 🤝 Supportive Community: Access to a private Facebook group of like-minded creatives.
And so much more!
Get ready to ‘retreat’ into your sketchbook this June.
Sketchbook warm-ups are designed to be quick exercises to get you in the zone when you open your sketchbooks for the first time on a particular day. This exercise involves doodling pasta shapes usi...
In this video I will talk you through a simple way to get familiar with your coloured pencils. This helps you to warm-up and get ready for more detailed work.
This exercise is a wonderful sketchbook warm-up and forms one of many tutorials that are part of my book: Sketchbook Challenge: 100 Prompts for Daily Drawing.
For this first tutorial we are going to explore a simple but very effective warm-up exercise. Please watch the video to see the explanation and demonstration.
This is a fun and simple warm-up to get the creative juices flowing for your sketchbooks. It should take around 5-10 minutes to do (after the initial leaf gathering that is!)