Let's Sketch Backwards Workshop

Learn how paint markers and focussing on big shapes first can transform your sketches.


Learning goals:

• Learn to identify positive or negative space to push your subject forward

• Let go of the pencil and work backwards with blocks of colour, adding detail last

• Explore framing your subject by blocking the negative space with opaque colour in loose strokes

• Become comfortable with the application of opaque markers – (Posca or Molotow or similar)

• Avoid white page fright with tinted pages.


Workshop Location:

Ellen Melville Centre, 2 Freyberg Place, Auckland Central


Date and time:

1pm to 4pm, 20 July 2019

Supply list:

Bring opaque media and tinted sketchbooks if you have them, however tinted papers and a range of markers will be supplied to work with. Your usual drawing and watercolour tools will be useful also.

Number of students:

Minimum 7 people, maximum 15 people.

Registration fee:

$45 NZD bank payment or on the day.
Contact Murray to book.