Have you wanted to sketch from life or just your imagination any where, anytime and feel that could be is as natural as when you write? That is what we are going to address. Our workshop will explore sketching methods demonstrated by great writers and artists through out history. Victor Hugo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , William Blake, Herman Hesse, Lewis Carrol, all these writers had a natural and direct way of putting their feelings in to sketches along side their gift for writing. I want our time together to concentrate on bringing out our own voices, building a vocabulary, experimenting with drawing materials, developing a oneness between mind, heart and hand. By working together on a few subjects we will able, day by day, to feel very at home, sketching in a variety of ways. Awakening as an artist began by taking a sketch book to classes, museums, cafes and of course the great out doors. It was all so vast and varied that I had to begin learning certain graphic principals that translate life experiences into informative drawings that suggest rather than fully render, like a photograph or painting, a fully fleshed out idea. We will see that sketching can be as fluent and natural as describing something with words. I hope you all can share in this experience, all you need to bring is a sketch book, I can provide drawing materials as well as a sketchbook for anyone lacking provisions.