May 5-8, 2025

(Re)Discovering Sketchbook Creativity

Instructor: Elizabeth Zimmerman

Explore creative journaling techniques as a practice to strengthen your art skills with WSO’s dynamic Elizabeth Zimmerman!

This opportunity will take you outside your daily surroundings to be inspired by the rustic lodge and forest surroundings of Menucha. We’ll cover techniques such as creating textures, mark making, playing with composition and experimenting with different art materials. (Re)discover how your sketchbook practice strengthens your art.

Working in our sketchbooks offers freedom from perfection, creating the space to sketch, doodle, paint, and draw whatever makes a happy heart. Demonstrations by Elizabeth include creating textures with watercolor and gouache paint, harnessing negative shapes, redefining composition, drawing from life and photos, value studies, and more. You will leave this workshop with techniques that carry beyond sketchbooks into your serious art making.

About the Artist

Hello, I'm Elizabeth Zimmerman, the creative Oregonian behind Western Rose Studios located in Salem, Oregon.

I love driving on back country roads with the radio up, chai tea, making my house into a home, and of course my little family.

I would love to be there for you to capture your memories in art or photography. ​As a mom I know how fleeting the moments can be and how thankful I am to remember all the memories as photos or art.

 

A basic schedule - updates will be sent out closer to arrival.

Cost to Attend

All inclusive of 3 nights lodging, 9 meals, and instruction. Limited to a maximum of 16 participants.

Cost is dependent on the choice of room. A shared room will have 2 occupants - you can request a roommate or let us assign one for you.

Single Occupancy - $955 (in room or shared bath)

Shared Room - $855 (bathroom will be in room or just across the hall)

Couple Room  $1135  (one person takes the class the other enjoys Menucha and all meals)

Commuter $693  (class, lunches and dinners, no overnight lodging)

Lunch-Only Commuter $663  (class, lunches but not dinner, no overnight lodging)

 

Check-in begins at 2:00 pm on Monday, May 6

Depart at 4:00 pm on Thursday, May 9

 

Photos from past watercolor classes