This workshop welcomes students of all levels who wish to explore a groundbreaking and transformational approach to painting (and living) that celebrates intuition, connects body, mind and spirit and allows unique and expressive paintings to emerge naturally and authentically. This process encourages you to allow your paintings to emerge organically in unexpected ways as a result of listening to your intuition, trusting and being brave. Throughout the workshop, instructor Patricia Barrera will demonstrate many of her painting techniques while creating a large original painting from start to finish. The process is broken down into easy, bite-sized lessons which explore color theory, translucent layering, value contrast, expressive mark making, dripping, texture, stamping and drawing. She will also offer invaluable prompts and exercises to support letting go, connecting to intuition, taming your “inner critic,” becoming unstuck and discovering your own authentic style.
What will you learn in this workshop?
1. Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud.
2. Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools.
3. Break compositional rules
4. Embrace non-attachment as a way to keep exploring.
5. Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive.
6. Work with what’s working to let go of struggle.
7. Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired.
8. Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings.
9. Find rhythm by spiraling between chaos and order.