Date
All dates in times in Pacific Standard Time
Friday, April 5th at 7:00 PM until about 8:30 PM
Friday, April 5th at 7:00 PM until about 8:30 PM
Pre-registration is required for this free event, if you haven't registered yet, use the link below:
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Recommended Supplies
- 18 x 24 inch watercolor or mixed media paper.
- Masking Tape
- A board to tape your paper onto - or you can tape down onto the table. This helps keep your paper from curling
- Acrylic Paint:
- A warm red like pyrrol scarlet, cadmium medium, or napthol
- A cool red like pyrrol crimson, alizarin crimson, quinacridone magenta
- A warm blue like ultramarine blue
- A warm yellow like hansa, quinacridone gold, Indian yellow, cadmium yellow
- White
- Black
- A mix of brushes suitable for acrylic paint - they do not need to be quality!
- Cups for rinsing brushes
- Something to use as a palette for mixing color - can be a sheet of wax paper. If you have a tray lined with wet paper towels, you can place the wax paper on top which helps keep the acrylic paint from drying too quickly
- Spray bottle (recommended)
- A scrap piece of paper and a pair of scissors
- Journal or paper and pen to write
- Recommended but not required, any preferred drawing media such as:
- oil pastels or crayons
- chalk or soft pastel
- water soluble pastels or crayons
- colored pencils
Questions?
Please do not hesitate to email me! [email protected]
Invite a friend!
Pre-registration is required for this free event, send them the link below! They are so welcome to join us!
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What is this workshop?
It is the second installment of the Color Mediation series - the "Dive Into Blue" workshop was the first one, and is still free, see the link in the navigation above!
What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
Expressive Arts Therapy is a method of using all of the major art modalities for self exploration and healing. It can be used in conjunction with psychotherapy to explore deeper issues, but I am not a therapist and I use expressive arts for creativity coaching, personal development and spiritual growth. It is deep work, with an orientation towards now, the future and your self actualization. Expressive Arts doesn’t use the arts in isolation. A defining characteristic of it is moving one art modality to another. For example, we paint, and then we write from our painting. We write, and then find movement in the words and perform.
Most of the most profound and deep creative experiences I’ve had have been through using expressive arts methods. I love this approach to creativity and self expression and I’m excited to share it with you.
One of the most important things to know about expressive arts is that it has the motto “low skill, high response” when choosing materials and activities. This is a return to the raw essence of self expression. Which is actually much harder for those of us that are trained artists. It can be hard to let go of that training and just be in this almost primitive state of mind and to be with the experience of raw creativity. But when you can, it is powerful.
What we are doing in this workshop
In this workshop we are going to explore one color. We will use paint and other art materials, and writing. Setting and a sense of spaciousness and privacy and safety are critically important to this work. It is also important to have a sense of community and a way to share your experience, so there is a Facebook group for you where you can share whatever you are comfortable sharing. I’ll go into more detail about how to set up your space in the next section.
What I’m hoping you’ll get out of this
Art can be complicated. There are a lot of things we are working with when we paint or write or dance. If you are a beginner, you may not know a lot about color yet, and this is an opportunity to deeply explore what one color can do. If you are an experienced artist, this workshop will help you relax into the simplest elements of visual art and rediscover what you love about color without concern for making a finished painting. The goal isn’t to use your skills or make an amazing painting. It is to be as present with the sensual experience of using color and to explore it meaning and symbolism.
You might take something from this experience that you can use in more deliberate and developed artworks, but try to let go of that and just enjoy radiating into the color red.
Expressive Arts Therapy is a method of using all of the major art modalities for self exploration and healing. It can be used in conjunction with psychotherapy to explore deeper issues, but I am not a therapist and I use expressive arts for creativity coaching, personal development and spiritual growth. It is deep work, with an orientation towards now, the future and your self actualization. Expressive Arts doesn’t use the arts in isolation. A defining characteristic of it is moving one art modality to another. For example, we paint, and then we write from our painting. We write, and then find movement in the words and perform.
Most of the most profound and deep creative experiences I’ve had have been through using expressive arts methods. I love this approach to creativity and self expression and I’m excited to share it with you.
One of the most important things to know about expressive arts is that it has the motto “low skill, high response” when choosing materials and activities. This is a return to the raw essence of self expression. Which is actually much harder for those of us that are trained artists. It can be hard to let go of that training and just be in this almost primitive state of mind and to be with the experience of raw creativity. But when you can, it is powerful.
What we are doing in this workshop
In this workshop we are going to explore one color. We will use paint and other art materials, and writing. Setting and a sense of spaciousness and privacy and safety are critically important to this work. It is also important to have a sense of community and a way to share your experience, so there is a Facebook group for you where you can share whatever you are comfortable sharing. I’ll go into more detail about how to set up your space in the next section.
What I’m hoping you’ll get out of this
Art can be complicated. There are a lot of things we are working with when we paint or write or dance. If you are a beginner, you may not know a lot about color yet, and this is an opportunity to deeply explore what one color can do. If you are an experienced artist, this workshop will help you relax into the simplest elements of visual art and rediscover what you love about color without concern for making a finished painting. The goal isn’t to use your skills or make an amazing painting. It is to be as present with the sensual experience of using color and to explore it meaning and symbolism.
You might take something from this experience that you can use in more deliberate and developed artworks, but try to let go of that and just enjoy radiating into the color red.