Sketching Workshop AUGUST 30, 2025

 August 30

Take a line for a walk around Edmonds

Whether you’re looking to discover your own sketching style, or to build on existing knowledge, practical exercises on site will get you thinking, while being inspired by the charming village of Edmonds.

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On location sketching Workshop in Edmonds on August 31

 Stretch your Sketching Skills with Panoramas

Class Date: August 31

9-12:30

An on location sketching and watercolor painting workshop

with Michele Cooper, Instructor 

Follow Michele’s simple lessons on how to draw and paint an exciting panoramic sketch in line and wash. Meet at ARTspot at 9:00. After a brief review of the art materials and the painting strategy, join Michele on location as she simplifies this complicated subject. You’ll start by finding and drawing your key landmarks so you know everything is in the right place.

FEATURES included in this on location workshop:

• Learn how to simplify your sketch and paint a panoramic format 
• Use continuous lines to draw lively sketches in ink
• Watercolor techniques for spontaneous effects
• Quick drills on how to draw and paint water, trees, sky, buildings

Get drawing tips on how to quickly establish an accurate composition, how to add notes of interest with pen, and how to pull your painting together with watercolor tinting.

Location: ARTspot & outdoor location TBA

Date: Saturday, August 31 rain or shine

Time: 9:00-12:30PDT

Tuition: $140

Register through ARTspot. Students can sign up via the website (ARTspot Edmonds | Art Supply Store ) in person or can call at 425-640-6408.

Materials:

Sketchbook: Particularly for this workshop as we are sketching panoramic views:

A sketchbook designed for multimedia. Takes ink, pencil, marker, and watercolor equally well.

Hardbound books help support your drawing while standing or sitting with it in your lap.

1. I like *Pentalic Aqua Journal 5" x 8", Watercolor OR
2. Handbook Journal Co. Artist Watercolor Sketchbook Journal, Pocket Panorama 3.5 x 8.25 Inches, 140lb CP
3. or Choose your own preferred paper and make an accordion or maze book.
4. Binder clips. To hold the pages open.

Choose from the options in the rest of the materials list here.

Please call ARTspot or contact me through Instagram or Facebook to let me know if you have any questions.

About the artist:

Michele Cooper was recently one of the guest artist instructors at Sketcher Fest Edmonds. She has been associated with USk Seattle since 2014 and was a Seattle 10×10 instructor for the tenth anniversary series of urban sketchers workshops. Michele has two new books on travel sketching as well as three sets of greeting cards. One set is especially about Edmonds. Drawing, painting and anything to do with art has always been Michele Cooper’s  passion. She loves sharing her discoveries and has taught adult watercolor workshops both internationally and locally from Anacortes to Seattle since 1979.

My Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/michelecooperart

My Facebook page 

https://www.facebook.com/ArtMicheleCooper

My Blog

https://www.michelecooper.blogspot.com

World Watercolor Month Returns!

Mark your calendar for the official month-long celebration of watercolor as World Watercolor Month returns in July! Founded in 2016, this is the 5th anniversary, and so I hope you'll help us spread the word! Psssst... also the souvenir shop is open and the prompts are posted! ;-)

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My Finished Sketchbook Pages for the 10x10 Workshop

Sketches from the morning session

I was recently honored to be a Seattle 10x10 instructor for the tenth anniversary series of urban sketchers workshops. My workshop took place in two sessions on May 20, 2017, morning from 9-12:00 noon and afternoon from 2-5pm. This is a "dual reportage" of the morning with personal observations as well as a report on the workshop itself from my viewpoint as the instructor.

From the morning session: I'm leaving the original pencil outlines of my modular layout pattern so students can see how I used (or ignored) them. I added color later to the original 3 sketches done on site and added narrative, headlines and ephemera to complete my montage.

I collected 3 pieces of ephemera for the morning: a business card with earthy image from Terra Plata, parking stub for the day, and part of one of the ID cards I made for students.

Sketches from the afternoon session

From the afternoon session: I ended up with more of a radial layout this time, ignoring most of my penciled in layout frames. Again, I'm combining my personal observations with reportage of the workshop.

I added three pieces of ephemera from the afternoon: my USk business card, partial card from one of my students' ID badge, the demo page from my spiral sketchbook with the actual demonstration sketches done on site for the afternoon class, glued on.

Thanks, everyone, for being such an inspiring group of students. It was great fun sharing a few tips and sketching our "sunny" city of Seattle with you!

WIP My USK10x10 Visual Journal

Right now it's 84° in the shade as I work on the finishing touches for my Visual Journaling urban sketchers sketch book. I'm gluing in a few bits of ephemera and adding some narrative to the sketches I did while on location with my students at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Seattle last Saturday morning.

I'm going to have to go inside where it's a bit cooler to finish this up and I will post those results as soon as possible.

For photos taken at the workshop, please visit my Flickr album.