Festive Sketching with Alissa Duke

This is a unique opportunity to learn to sketch 'on location' at The Johnston Collection. On arrival, meet other participants and your tutor, Alissa Duke, over tea or Market Lane coffee, and become familiar with watercolour pencils and how to use them. Then test your new skills as you explore the ground floor rooms of The Johnston Collection’s historic exhibition house, Fairhall (1860), which has been decorated for Christmas. Explore the Green Drawing Room, White Room, Blue Room, and Kitchen and select your favourite collection objects and festive trimmings to record in your sketchbook,  with guidance from your tutor. 

Your ticket includes a welcome tea or coffee, watercolour pencil class, an on-location sketching experience in Fairhall, and a sketch kit to take home (comprising: sketchbook, 12 Faber-Castell watercolour pencils, and a waterbrush).

Class size limited to eight participants.

No equipment or previous experience is required – just bring your enthusiasm.

Your tutor ALISSA DUKE is a law librarian, artist and East Melbourne local who loves books: to read, to draw, and sometimes, to draw in. She sketches daily, documenting everyday events, objects, and travels in her life. She will sketch for five minutes on the tram, for half an hour while having coffee, at events, or complete a drawing over a few nights at home. Alissa carries her sketchbook, watercolour pencils and pen with her everywhere, as there is always something to draw! Her art captures the character of the objects that she draws, connecting them with the viewer. Alissa regularly leads sketching classes for small groups and her work has been exhibited around Australia and overseas.

NOTE: Tickets for this event include access to the ground-floor rooms of our exhibition-house, Fairhall.  Guided tours of the current exhibition can be booked separately.

This event is supported by The Colin Holden Charitable Trust.