Travel sketching made easy:
capture your adventures while traveling
With Teresa Sites
Travel Sketching Made Simple: Capture Your Adventures While Traveling
Join us for a creative and inspiring art class designed to help you document your travels in a beautiful, personal way. Whether you're strolling through a charming European village or enjoying a quiet weekend getaway, this class will teach you how to quickly and confidently capture the essence of a place through simple sketches and watercolors.
No experience necessary – just bring your curiosity and love for adventure!
Learn easy techniques to sketch on the go
Create your own travel sketchbook
Connect with fellow creatives in a fun and relaxed environment
Already an artist? You'll still discover fresh ways to simplify your process, loosen up your style, and build a habit of spontaneous, joyful sketching wherever you are.
Let’s turn your travel memories into meaningful works of art—one sketch at a time.
More details:
Location: 5110 MacArthur Blvd NW - Washington, DC 20016
Classes: Thursdays May 15, May 22, May 29 and June 5
Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Tuition: $260
Cancellation: by May 5th: 50% refund -No refunds after May 6th, 2025
Materials: teacher will contact registered students and provide material lists
Age: 18 and older
YOU WILL LEARN:
1. Watercolor properties and techniques (with and without ink).
2. Focal point, depth, atmospheric perspective.
3. Resist methods (crayon, wax, tape, glue, etc.
4. Transparency (layering color).
5. Transfer technique (from sketch to final).
6. Imagination starters (free form washes, blotting, wet on wet dripping, salt for texture, action painting).
7. Using my own Urban Sketching Bingo warm-up game combining the elements and principles of art as applied to urban sketching.
8. By creating "Watercolor Postcards" from destinations with ink and watercolor media.
About the teacher:
Teresa Sites was born in Washington, D.C. She earned her BA in English and Studio Art from Georgetown University and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from George Washington University. At Georgetown, she earned the Misty Dailey Travel Fellowship and completed a series of landscape paintings of Montana and Wyoming. She continued her study at George Washington University where she was a graduate teaching assistant and became a Columbian Woman Scholar. She went on to earn a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland. She currently works as an artist and librarian, while serving as VP of the local art group, the Montgomery Art Association. She regularly exhibits, publishes her art and can be found urban sketching and painting in plein air.