Category: Workshops and classes

Our newest kourse

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I’m super excited about the brand new kourse we just put together at Sketchbook Skool. It features five amazing creative people and I do hope you’ll join me in Imagining! We start on September 18 so sign up now at sketchbookskool.com

Here’s a Facebook Live video I made to introduce why I think it’s worth your time:

Sketchbook Club: Paris Sketchbook by Ronald Searle w/Prash Miranda

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This week, artist and pal Prashant Miranda joins me to discuss one of my favorite books by one of my favorite artists.

  • Paris Sketchbook by Ronald Searle

Sketchbook Club: Paul Hogarth

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This week the work of British illustrator Paul Hogarth. We’ll discuss the following books by Paul:

Drawing on Life: The Autobiography of Paul Hogarth
http://amzn.to/2vjxRe7
Graham Greene Country http://amzn.to/2vPrlgO
Creative Pencil Drawing http://amzn.to/2vml9ty
Creative Ink Drawing http://amzn.to/2vmjnZw

Sketchbook Club: Alan E. Cober

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This week we discussed the work of Alan E. Cober and the world of reportage sketchbooking.

Books referenced include:
The Forgotten Society – http://amzn.to/2h0Vovj
The Sketchbook – http://amzn.to/2h0zdp2

Hello, I have no talent.

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Hello, my name is Danny and I have no talent. Let me tell you my story.  20% off Sale ends at midnight, July 16. Learn more here.

(This is a recording of a Facebook Live event.)

Sketchbook Club: Sara Midda

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This week on the Club. we discuss what may be the first illustrated journal I ever owned, Sara Midda’s South of France. It’s delicate, witty, gorgeous and inspiring.

I also talk about other miscellanea including Father’s Day, iPads, squirrels, Tommy Kane, and more. I hope it’s helpful.

This week’s books:
• Sara Midda’s South of France: A Sketchbook:
• In and Out of the Garden:
• A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory
Also mentioned:
• A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney 
• Art Before Breakfast

Let’s Make a Map!

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I just love maps — looking at them and making them too.  I started making them as a kid, and my journals (especially the travel ones) are full of maps. They’re a great way to tell a story graphically, even the ones I made up out of my imagination. And they have so many uses, from giving directions to a house guest, to recording my personal history, to recreating memories, to recording a trip to charting the geography of a novel, to figuring out the most efficient way to tackle my list of chores.

Recently, I worked with my friend Nate Padavick, one of the world’s great map makers, on Let’s Make a Map!, a great new kourse at SketchBook Skool.

We filmed it in his gorgeous studio and all around the Mission district of San Francisco and we even used a drone (an SBS first!). Nate is a great teacher and he breaks down the process of making a map into simple fun steps, then gives oodles of inspiration. It’s a short kourse, just a week long, and it’s affordably priced ($29), and by the end, you’ll have made your first map and be eager to make loads more.

Nate is a lovely man, a great illustrator, and he knows SO much about maps. He’s also the curator of two great web site: They Draw and Travel and They Draw and Cook. You must check them out…. after you sign up for Let’s Make  A Map.

 

A Springular pep talk

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Spring is here. Nature’s making stuff. So should you.

Here’s a pep talk to motivate you.