🖋️ SKETCHBOOKING WITH PEN & INK 🖋️

📓 SKETCHBOOKING & CREATIVE JOURALING WORKSHOP ✍️🌿
Hosted by Hà Minh, visual artist & poet

Pen and ink are traditional mediums that have been used for thousands of years, dating back to the time of the old masters. They are simple, versatile, highly expressive, and incredibly portable, making them perfect companions for sketching, journaling, observation, and creative exploration on the go ✍️🌿

You'll learn basic ink techniques such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, creating textures, and exploring color combinations. You'll also be introduced to fundamental gel pen techniques.
The possibilities with a pen are endless. You can draw shapes, shade forms, build intricate patterns, or create rich textures.
From there, you'll combine the two mediums. Use pen over ink washes to develop texture, pattern, and form, or layer translucent washes over pen drawings to create softened, faded out, filtered, and atmospheric effects. Through this interplay between line and wash, you'll discover a wide range of expressive and unexpected visual possibilities.

This workshop is an invitation to explore sketchbooking and journaling as an intuitive daily practice, a space for observation, reflection, experimentation, idea generation, and creative play.
Rather than focusing on perfection or polished outcomes, this workshop encourages curiosity, habit-building, and developing a personal visual language through small everyday gestures.

✨ What to expect:
📖 Building an intuitive journaling & sketchbook practice
🖊️ Mark-making with pen & ink
🎨 Ink washes & layering
✍️ Combining ink washes with pen mark-marking to create textures or pen shading to create forms
🌿 Ink over pen and vice versa
🧠 Creative idea generation & observation exercises
💬 Relaxed, supportive & beginner-friendly atmosphere

No prior experience is needed. Open to all levels, including complete beginners, artists, writers, non-artists, overthinkers, and anyone curious about creativity and self-expression.
Whether you want to develop a calming daily ritual, collect ideas, document your life visually, strengthen creative habits, or simply reconnect with curiosity and play, this workshop is designed to help you begin gently and without fear.

⏰ Time: 2pm - 4pm, Sun 7 June
📍 Location: Tiệm cà phê Túi Mơ To
👥 Participants: 3 - 8 (Please pre-book to reserve your spot!)
💵 Participation Fee: 250k (Materials included)

📩 To register:
Message this page directly or email: Haminhsworld@gmail.com

🌱 About the facilitator:
Hà Minh is a visual artist and poet working across writing, drawing, painting, collage, soft sculpture, animation, and installation. Her practice explores childlike wonder, curiosity, experimentation, and the intersection between visual imagery and language.
She has exhibited extensively across major art venues in Vietnam, including the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), Temple of Literature, Work Room Four, Manzi Art Space, Mơ Art Space, Vin Gallery, Vietnam University of Architecture, Vinschool Central Park, and Van Lang University. She is also beginning to exhibit internationally, including at Galerie Biesenbach in Cologne, Germany. She has additionally given artist talks at the United Nations International School of Hanoi, among other institutions.
Her workshops focus not only on technical skills, but on reconnecting participants with instinctive creativity, playful experimentation, and discovery-driven art-making processes.