Drawing on Location

Drawing on Location is back at Reading Museum this autumn, with sessions running on Friday 18 September, 16 October and 20 November, from 10am to 12pm. It's a tutor-led sketching workshop that takes you through the museum's collections, and because it's a series, you can drop in for one or come along to all three.

Each session focuses on a different part of the holdings, so you'll be drawing from different objects every time. The idea is to practise observational drawing and try out a few different techniques until you find a style that works for you. It's open to all abilities, so it doesn't matter if you haven't picked up a pencil in years or if you sketch every day.

The workshops are part of the museum's Community, Arts & Wellbeing programme, run in partnership with New Directions College, which describes the whole thing as supporting wellbeing through creative activity. The museum itself has been based in Reading Town Hall—one of the town's most recognisable landmarks—since 1883, and its collections cover archaeology, art, natural history, ethnography and objects relating to Reading, so there's plenty to look at.

Sessions run 10am to 12pm on those three Fridays, and it's £19 for adults, or free for eligible learners.