Your Sketchbook as a Touchstone: Building a Daily Creative Practice | Sunday 17th May 2026 10am – 1pm

Your Sketchbook as a Touchstone: Building a Daily Creative Practice
Sunday 17th May 2026 10am – 1pm
Tutor: Linette van Greunen
Maximum attendees: 8
Ages: 16+
Price: $65 per person
Location: Art Shed, Quarry Arts Centre, 21 Selwyn Avenue, Whangarei 0110

This workshop explores the sketchbook as a simple creative anchor: a place to return to in the small, in-between moments of everyday life. While musicians practice scales and dancers train regularly, visual artists often lack an equivalent daily practice. Through guided drawing and simple collage exercises, participants will experiment with playful mark-making and discover ways to build a sustainable sketchbook habit. Suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike, the focus is on curiosity, experimentation and finding joy in a small, repeatable creative practice.

This workshop is in connection to the exhibition ‘Touchstones’, in the Yvonne Rust Gallery between Friday 15th  – Saturday 30th May 2026.

Linette is a local potter and practising artist with a Diploma in Ceramic Design and a Master of Creative and Performing Arts Management. She loves sketchbooks and journaling, and is interested in how small, everyday creative habits help sustain an artistic life.

Please bring:

• Bring along your own current sketchbook, or new. If buying new we suggest an A4 or A5 250-300GSM paper ✓
• watercolour paint
• ink (acrylic ✓)
• Indian ink
• glue or gluestick
• Container for water
• Pencils (B, 2B or 4B) ✓
•  brushes ✓
• acrylic paint (Blue or black) or a colour set ✓
• Old magazine for collage
• Gluestick
  
• Snacks, and refreshments you may require. Your own mug for hot drinks

The above items marked with a ✓ are available in our Quarry art store.

To read our workshops Terms and Conditions, click here Workshop Terms and Conditions – Quarry Arts Centre

If you should have any questions, please email programmes@quarryarts.org