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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Landscapes with a focus on all the tones and texture you can achieve with pencil, for a final satisfying pencil piece.
There are so many ways you can tell a story. How you respond to your subject is key to producing arresting work. Maxine offers 10 Tips to communicate your ideas with power and immediacy, whatever your medium.
Make your own ingenious double-ended Sketchbooks – one end for watercolour, the other for pencil!
Explore the wild reeds and grasses of our river landscape and illustrate their diversity in form, colour and details. Join us for a lovely summer afternoon to observe and sketch sea lavender, seaweed and salt plants to name a few!
Using the three languages of words, pictures and numbers to enhance your time in nature. This is the beginning of a wonderful habit that you’ll love!
Join Alice to learn invaluable quick-handed techniques for on the go figure sketching, capturing people quickly in sketch as they stroll in the distance along the river wall.
How to approach the tricky subjects of boats ashore, boats afloat, ropes, dinghies and mooring rings – there’s plenty of inspiration along the Woodbridge waterfront.
Join us for a 50 minute stop-start walk (less than one mile) along the river wall and learn sketching techniques that you’ll use forever. With the guidance of your art tutor, you’ll have pages of sketches and enjoy more of this area of natural beauty.
River views with boats are a restful subject for the middle of your first afternoon! Using line and colour, this workhop is all about settling in and enjoying the process.