Sketchbook Club - Seasonal Projects
Welcome to our Sketchbook Club Project collection where you can experience SAS founder Ellie Green’s calm and mindful seasonal Sketchbook Club Projects and learn about Nature through Creativity.
With gentle step by step guidance from Ellie, these projects will help you slow down and notice the small things in the natural world around you.
. Each project features six pre-recorded tutorials so you can follow along in ‘real time’ (minimum 7-8 hours of learning) & extensive downloadable resources packed contextual information / beginner-friendly technical tips.
Simply click on ‘more info’ to find out more about the chapters of learning and materials used in each individual project!
‘Floriography’ Spring Project
Join us on a creative journey though a summer season project where you’ll learn to draw & paint flowers as well as learning what each flower represents. This project includes some core Nature Journaling techniques as well as folklore / stories associated to a range of wild flowers that grow in the Surrey Area.
‘Plant Medicine’ Summer Project
Time to learn the lore of plants as we journey into the healing properties of herbs and wild flowers held in the highest regard by our ancestors. As we explore each plant's story, we'll unlock it's wisdom - untangling the threads of learning woven into folk tales, tradition and ritual. We'll flow through botanical drawing, watercolour painting and even some optional printmaking this season as we explore the shapes, colours, textures and healing properties of plants.
‘The Spirit of Trees’ Autumn
Join us on a journey into the sacred forest where you’ll learn how to draw and sketch trees that were held in the highest regard by our ancestors. Packed with technical tricks for drawing and painting trees, this project is also steeped in magic and folklore as we learn about the ‘spirit of trees’.
‘Wild Magic’ Winter Project
Join us on a wonder-filled adventure through the Winter months as we learn about the myth, magic and folklore of animals. Through the lens of the four elements we'll learn how to connect to the energy of a selection of wild animals, through creativity. Learn about 'the spirit of animals' using beginner-kind painting and drawing techniques.
‘The Song of Spring’ Project
Spread your creative wings as we enter the world of birds- from sketching eggs, nests and feathers to full paintings of our feathered friends using beginner-friendly tricks & techniques!
‘ Journeying’ Summer Project
Join Ellie on a creative summer journey travelling to hill tops, sea-sides and rivers with a small kit of materials and a nature journal. Learn how to journal en plein air and how to capture both our close surroundings and the ‘wider view’ using simple materials
‘Harvest’ Autumn Project
Autumn is the season of foraging and during our ‘Harvest’ project we foraged for local inspiration to fill our Sketchbooks with the ‘gifts of nature’ so abundant at this time of year! This project includes Fruits of the Hedgerow, Fruits of the trees, Fruits of the Forest (including Fungi!) and Fruits of the field!
‘Hibernation’ Winter Project
Join Ellie for a slow and gentle Winter-inspired project where we explore the Hibernation habits of UK Wildlife - from hedgehogs & dormice, to badgers and bees and finishing the project with some beautiful Spring bulbs emerging from the Earth below…
Student Work:
Here you’ll find just a small selection of some of the work Ellie’s students have produced over the past few years. Our tutorials are for everyone, no matter your experience or skill. We experiment, we take risks and we focus on progress over perfection! Come and play!
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