Welcome to the booking system for Suffolk SketchFest 2025!
Register for £100 and then start to plan your days of sketching:
Please look through the many choices below and add the ones you want to your basket.
– Artists demos – 40mins – £12– Workshops – 1hr – £18– Half-day workshops – 2.5-3hrs – £50– Sketching Walks – 50 mins – £18 per extra walk– Al fresco supper on Friday night (vegetarian) and a glass of something lovely/bubbly – £25
When you first purchase the SketchFest 2025 Registration, you will automatically be given vouchers in your basket to redeem against your free walk, free demo and free 1hr workshop.
Please make sure to book your walk, demo and workshop when you purchase your registration; the vouchers cannot be used at a later date and must be used when purchasing the £100 registration.
Dates: Friday 01 – Sunday 03 August 2025
Location: Art Safari HQ on the River Deben, Ferry Quay, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1BW
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This is your starting point! Booking the registration here gives you a workshop, a demo and a walk – as well as the Free events. Make sure you add this to your basket!
Choosing what to sketch is often tricky! We’ll show a few techniques to help you find your subject and ways to portray it effectively.
Using cut-outs to help freeze flying birds. Mark shows how to sketch birds in flight – there are some natty tricks that will help you freeze the moments in your mind!
Explore the humble thumbnail sketch – it will help you with composition, tonal range and strength, an essential but simple part of planning.
Explore the fun of quick portraits by learning shapes and proportions, then you’ll be more confident in putting people into your paintings.
Talking about kit is always a favourite subject! You might have your favourites for indoor work, but working out what’s best of outdoor sketching is another matter.
From sumptuous bold to delicate tracery, let this most versatile drawing tool take you into new territories of self-expression with Maxine who will share her extensive knowledge and broad practice of all things graphite, including stylistic approaches, rubbers, sharpening techniques, protecting your sketchbook pages, brand differences and more. A chance to explore the full gamut.
Using paper collage to combine line, form and colour into quick and distinctive pictures in the field, Mark helps you draw with scissors for greater confidence in shapes and drama.
There’s more to filling a sketchbook than drawing what you see. Learn to experiment with colour, line and playfulness to bring your pages to life