Embrace the Practice

April 25:  10am – 4pm

Embrace the Practice: Daily Painting (or almost daily): How to Build a Sustainable Daily Art Practice

Let’s start a daily painting practice together. The value of a commitment to a specific art-making practice is that the daily routine is both grounding and freeing, it’s an insistent act of documentation and with it, offers a way to make sense of it all. The on-going nature of this practice leaves the viewer rooting for the next day, while for the creator it emphasizes the creative process over product. My approach teaches a habit forming system for a daily (or almost daily) painting practice. We’ll talk about simplifying the painting process, obstacles to creating a daily practice (and how to overcome them), effective habit building, and ways to stay motivated through planning, reflection, and innovative painting techniques. I teach varying approaches that provide participants with a system to make a personalized daily creative habit and exercises that solidify a daily art making approach.

Why daily painting? Through daily painting, we paint your own reality through action, connection, and being. Daily painting is a game-changer, through the incessant act of daily painting, it creates a connection with other daily painters, artists, galleries, exhibitions opportunities, art buyers, and consultants. The act forms our identity and perpetuates a direction and rhythm in the studio like none other.

There is a global interest in creating a daily art practice and the importance of art as human practice and ties into the latest research from the National Endowment of the Arts, “Healing, Bridging, Thriving, Arts and Culture in Our Communities,” which illustrates new research on the positive psychological and psychological impacts of art as human practice.”

Let’s paint the bigger picture. This workshop combines demos, in-class assignments and individual instruction to teach students the techniques to create fresh, deliberate marks on a big canvas.  Using observational painting as our launching point (we’ll start with/observational but deviate from it), we’ll embark each day with energetic painting exercises designed to tap into each participant’s personal voice.

The practice of working direct from life results in a heightened awareness and a lasting impression of the moment. Incorporating other elements, from photos, etc., we’ll  creates an interconnectivity with our immediate surroundings and our personal voice. We’ll paint freer and bolder and let our personalities inspire what we see.. Through painting and exercises we’ll analyze what influences our choices and how to incorporate our personal voice in our work.  All demos are in acrylic (oil painters welcome too!).

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