AS IT HAPPENS - Georgetown Penang 6-9 February 2026
from SGD 120.00
“As it happens” A Spontaneous Workshop in Georgetown
Join us for an incredible opportunity to learn from artist and traveller Susan Olij and discover how to be a confident creator, sketchbook artist, and traveler. Over three immersive days, you'll learn to adapt your creative practice to new environments, build self-confidence in your artistic voice, and develop the skills to sketch and create wherever your travels take you.
This workshop is designed for artists who want to break free from their comfort zone and learn how to find inspiration, follow their curiosity, and create meaningful work in unfamiliar places. Whether you're sketching in a bustling café or capturing street scenes, you'll gain the tools and mindset to approach travel as a creative practice.
Why Georgetown? This workshop is not in Singapore because I am a traveller who teach travel sketching, as it happens, I am going to be in Georgetown in these dates, so this is a call for you, to step up if you’d like to challenge your agility and spontaneity. Travel sketching requires adaptability, and learning in a new environment is the best way to develop these essential skills.
Prerequisites: This is an intermediate-level workshop. Participants must have an existing art practice or have previously taken Susan’s workshops or short courses. This workshop is not suitable for beginners.
Pricing:
$500/person for all workshops
$120 Monday Extra workshop
$450/person for Friday to Sunday workshops
$220/person for just ONE off, one of any of the workshops
The pricing is designed to accommodate different permutations of schedules.
You can choose what works best for yours.
The meeting locations will all be decided on the fly, and subject to change depending on weather, and other unforeseen circumstances, but it will always be within the heart of Georgetown old city area. All logistic communications via Whatsapp chat group.
Workshop type:
“As it happens” A Spontaneous Workshop in Georgetown
Join us for an incredible opportunity to learn from artist and traveller Susan Olij and discover how to be a confident creator, sketchbook artist, and traveler. Over three immersive days, you'll learn to adapt your creative practice to new environments, build self-confidence in your artistic voice, and develop the skills to sketch and create wherever your travels take you.
This workshop is designed for artists who want to break free from their comfort zone and learn how to find inspiration, follow their curiosity, and create meaningful work in unfamiliar places. Whether you're sketching in a bustling café or capturing street scenes, you'll gain the tools and mindset to approach travel as a creative practice.
Why Georgetown? This workshop is not in Singapore because I am a traveller who teach travel sketching, as it happens, I am going to be in Georgetown in these dates, so this is a call for you, to step up if you’d like to challenge your agility and spontaneity. Travel sketching requires adaptability, and learning in a new environment is the best way to develop these essential skills.
Prerequisites: This is an intermediate-level workshop. Participants must have an existing art practice or have previously taken Susan’s workshops or short courses. This workshop is not suitable for beginners.
Pricing:
$500/person for all workshops
$120 Monday Extra workshop
$450/person for Friday to Sunday workshops
$220/person for just ONE off, one of any of the workshops
The pricing is designed to accommodate different permutations of schedules.
You can choose what works best for yours.
The meeting locations will all be decided on the fly, and subject to change depending on weather, and other unforeseen circumstances, but it will always be within the heart of Georgetown old city area. All logistic communications via Whatsapp chat group.
Itinerary:
Friday
Arrival from Singapore
Free afternoon
5–8pm: Workshop 1
How to find your creativity in a new place
How to follow your curiosity
What to look for when you listen to what the city has to offer
Demonstration of current techniques, setup, paint kit, and survival mindset
Dinner and Q&A about assignment
Saturday
8:30–11:30am: Self-guided sketchwalk
12–2pm: Lunch
2–5pm: Free time
5–8pm: Workshop 2
Review of morning sketches
Show and tell by students with feedback sessions
Demonstrating alternative approaches based on student works
Dinner
8–10pm: Optional art jam/night sketching
Sunday
8:30–11:30am: Workshop 3 – Working in a café: Interior sketching
Quick rolling feedback of works
12–2pm: Lunch
2–5pm: Free time
5–8pm: Free evening sketch session on location
8–9pm: Final feedback and review
Monday (Optional)
8:30–11:30am: Optional Extra Workshop
Revision and redoing
Putting it all together
Self-reflection journaling
End of workshop
Return to Singapore
This is a basic itinerary and is subject to changes due to the nature of travel sketching trips, but Susan will always do her best to maintain a similar itinerary.
What's Not Included:
Flights to and from Georgetown
Accommodation
Meals (except workshop dinners on Friday and Saturday)
Art supplies and materials
Personal sketching kit
Travel insurance
Transportation within Georgetown
Any additional activities outside of scheduled workshops
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