Woodland Sketching with Alice Melvin

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Join me for a very special Wild Ink workshop with artist, maker and children's book illustrator, Alice Melvin! 

During this class, Alice will share her intuitive and mindful approach to sketching in the woodlands that surround her home in Scotland. The techniques that Alice uses could, of course, be applied to any natural landscape and are particularly useful for wild seascapes and tangled gardens! 

Alice will share her favourite materials, take us through her process from a blank sketchbook page to finished drawing and show us how her sketchbook work has inspired the illustrations in her picturebooks.

In the second part of the class, we will get sketching, applying and playing with the layering techniques that Alice uses to sketch outside. We will be working from a range of woodland images provided but please feel free to use references from your…