Edinburgh Sketcher Workshops
Learn how to quickly capture the world around you with ink and watercolour.
My workshops are a chance for me to encourage others to sketch and record their daily lives in visual diaries. Open to all abilities, they are as much about well being and building confidence as they are about technical skills, as I share my process and the tools I use when out in the city.
New Town Sketch & Collage
Surrounded by Georgian architecture, the Arienas Collective studio in Dublin Meuse is the perfect base for sketching Edinburgh’s New Town.
New for this Autumn I will guide you on a walking sketch tour of the neighbourhood focusing on architectural details and perspectives before returning indoors for cosy cuppa and creating a montage of our scribbles.
Encouraging expression and experimentation whilst being less precious about our drawings, once happy we will then mount our finished piece.
In the event of bad weather we will work from photographs and still life within the Arienas Collective’s cosy studio.
3 hours / £55.00 per person / All materials and refreshments included
Bring a friend offer: Book a second place for £50.00
Spaces are limited so click below now to book.
Thursday 24th September, 10am - 1pm
Thursday 22nd October, 10am - 1pm
Keeping a Sketch Journal
Build a diary of sketches to look back on, capture a place with key words and phrases to remind you where you were when you drew.
By combining quick sketches of everyday items with views of a place the memory is made stronger. I will show you how to mix drawings and words to create colourful spreads in your journal.
3.5 hours / £70.00 per person / All materials and refreshments included
Take away a watercolour sketch book.
Bring a friend offer: Book a second place for £65.00
Spaces are limited so click below now to book.
Thursday 24th September, 2pm - 5.30pm
Thursday 22nd October, 2pm - 5.30pm
Festive Card Making
I love to draw personal cards at Christmas to send to friends and family. Join me sharing my sketching tips as we draw festive still life using a variety of mediums to create five colourful gift cards with envelopes for you to send to your loved ones.
3 hours / £60.00 per person / All materials and refreshments included
Take away five festive gift cards with envelopes.
Bring a friend offer: Book a second place for £55.00
Spaces are limited so click below now to book.
Saturday 28th November, 10am - 1pm
Saturday 28th November, 2pm - 5pm
Private Walking and Sketching Tours
You can book a private workshop with me where I will meet you in central Edinburgh and take your party on a walking and sketching tour, sharing my drawing techniques as we work from close up details to perspective scenes.
Example 2.5 hour route: Princes Street; Scott Monument; views to Arthur’s Seat; National Monument on Calton Hill; views from Calton Hill; return to Princes Street.
Prices start at £395 / Message me for more details at mark@edinburghsketcher.com
National Trust Days
Join me around Scotland sketching some of my favourite locations. Start your own travel sketch book to take away. Combining quick architectural details, descriptive notes and landscape views to create a personal souvenir of your visit.
3 hours / £60.00 per person plus booking fee depending on venue / All materials included
Check locations and click a date to book
Hill of Tarvit with the National Trust
This Fife location has fairy-tale stone towers plus a walled garden full of details.
Falkland Palace with the National Trust
Beautiful gardens and architectural details at this picturesque palace.
More dates soon
Gift Vouchers
Give the gift of a day out sketching with EdinburghSketcher. Choose whether to include a sketching kit comprising of a watercolour paint set, water brush, ink fine liner pen, hard back watercolour sketch book and exclusive tote bag.