Visual Diary Keeping with Anna Mar

Anna Mar invites you to this one-off illustration workshop held on Zoom, looking through her drawn diaries and picking up your own tools to draw your day together.

What to expect

Illustrator Anna Mar will be showing us her drawn daily diaries featuring pages of humdrum events turned magical in their reproduction on the page. She will be illustrating how the routine mundane can make excellent creative material for future projects, or just lovely documents to be cherished of themselves. Annie adopts a loose approach to drawing and believes that everyone can create something meaningful by just giving time to their practice and letting their hands and intuition take over. She will then demonstrate how she manages this in her own practice with some live drawing, where she encourages you to pick up your tool and join her!

To finish the session, Annie will answer any questions from participants.

About Anna Mar

Anna Mar is an illustrator who has always been driven by the magic in the mundanities of daily existence. Her work is personal, defiant and peculiar. As well as commission-based work, she also runs her own Etsy shop, Patreon and tables at markets. She is a keen zine enthusiast and facilitates Cork Zine Fest every year. She is a core member of Bloomers magazine, a publication focused on emerging female artists in Ireland through which she travels, giving zine workshops at festivals and in gallery spaces across the country. She conducts kids and teen workshops in the Crawford Gallery Cork on self expression through art. Follow her work here.

Testimonials

“The workshops showed great imagination, while imparting skills, techniques and new ways of looking. Annie has a wonderful manner, she is calm and warm. She built an atmosphere of trust that allowed participants to share their ideas in a respectful environment.” – Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

“This course was a great way to let loose all the ideas in my head.” – Attendee of teen workshops

“I had found a lack of time for art in my life and these classes helped me reintroduce it as a frequent activity.” – Attendee of teen workshops