Last week, I opened a new Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon , creating a place for us to share our everyday sketching explorations. A wonderful group is already forming inside the community. Patreon was founded in May and is widely used by artists, musicians, and other creators to interact directly with their communities.
The more experimental work needs a degree of explanation and context that is difficult to give in the format of a blog. The magic of mixed media comes from trying new things based on conversations and ideas gleaned from others.
So a community will allow us to experiment and explore new things together! Patreon offers an easy monthly subscription, so you can join for as long as you want. In the live session, I will give you a special tour of my current sketchbook, explaining all the work I have done in the past month.
The first livestream occurs later this week! These monthly themes will explore an aspect of creating art such as line, shape, value, and composition rather than a specific subject matter. Having a more conceptual theme for each month will make it easier for us all to incorporate them into our existing sketching practice. They will be themes that we can work on without going out of our way to find subjects.
Over time, the monthly themes will help you expand your artistic horizons, and the community will be your safe space to explore and share what you discover along the way. There will be a monthly chat thread so that you can share your own work and discuss materials. These chats are already active! Sketching Adventure Community will be a safe place to share our everyday sketches often containing commonplace subjects without the perfection pressure of social media.
