As part of our focus on the Creative at #BML16 — with this year’s theme of Create. Connect. Collaborate — we’re featuring a session and a speaker that is all about accessing your thinking-out-of-the-box, free-rein visual creativity in a fresh way.
Unleash your artist: The Power of Sketchbooks
Anyone can create beautiful work in their own sketchbook. Skeptical that means you? Award-winning illustrator Jennie Maizels (www.jenniemaizels.com) will change your mind and help you tap into your creativity with this session, which draws on her extensive illustration and teaching background. And it’s not only theory. You’ll do an exercise to tickle your imagination and get you started on your sketchbook journey. Bring some paper and a pencil or pen on the day!
About Jennie Maizels
Jennie has published 22 books and sold over a million copies worldwide. She’s known not only for her range of embroidery patches, which are stocked everywhere from Liberty, John Lewis and The Conran Shop, but also for her hugely popular online Sketchbook Club.
Jennie’s hugely popular Online Sketchbook Club has become a phenomenon.
She believes passionately that people should be drawing for pleasure as much as they are baking, and that absolutely anyone can draw. It is just the fear of the blank page that stops them.
With Sketchbook Club, Jennie takes away that fear and teaches us that it is not just about drawing from life. There is nothing wrong in tracing, copying or being told what to do, we wouldn’t bake a cake without a recipe or play an instrument without music, so why not paint and draw with reference and instructions? It works. It’s fabulous and we’re all addicted. Keeping sketchbooks is officially good for the soul.
Sketchbook Club – Intro from Jennie Maizels on Vimeo.
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