WHAT: Sketch to Studio on Skye WHERE: Based in the workshop area of Skyeworks Gallery in Portree, the largest town on the Isle of Skye, plus on-location sketching (weather permitting). HOW MANY: Six people maximum. Exploring ways to gather reference material on location (including sketching and photography) which we will then use to develop mixed media paintings in the studio at Skyeworks. If the weather is wild, we’ll work indoors only. This is a workshop about information gathering/sketching and using this alongside reference photos for creating studio-based paintings, with my sharing how I do it. It’d be a mixture of location work (weather permitting) and indoors in the workshop area of Skyeworks Gallery (which is up a flight of stairs, above The Isle of Skye Baking Company, in Portree). It may rain all week or it may be dry, most likely a mixture. Many of my favourite spots are accessible by bus from Portree and a shortish walk. Portree itself has an array of possibilities. If the weather is too wet for being outside, we’ll work from my booklet of reference photos. (I don’t do car-based sketching, nor do I paint on location in wild weather.)