Creative Journaling workshop Description
This two-day workshop, Creative Journaling, is all about exploration and expression without the pressure of trying to create something for anyone but yourself. It’s a private place to fool around, delight in, explore, and develop ideas. All are welcome: artists, writers, gardeners, poets, car mechanics, musicians, seekers.
Journaling can act as:
A way of kindling and engaging the creative process and developing ideas
A way to explore our stuck places and our fears about ourselves as people and artists
A quiet and meditative way of spending time with ourselves
A way of expressing ourselves with words and beyond words
Come and enjoy this opportunity for experimentation, self-reflection and replenishment.
To read more about this workshop, visit my blog (scroll down a bit to see the article) Upcoming Class: Creative Journaling
Blog — Jacqui Beck
Stretching Toward Abstraction workshop Description
This challenging, invigorating, and inspiring workshop will encourage you to experiment, loosen up, and experience a variety of ways to express yourself with acrylic paint and mixed media. We’ll explore ways to start, develop, and finish abstracted paintings. You’ll have the opportunity to experiment with techniques and composition forms that vary along the continuum between representational and non-objective art.
Topics we’ll cover include:
Composition & design
Techniques for abstracting [exaggeration, simplification, etc.]
Finding inspiration
References: painting from life, photos, and imagination
Creating and fostering personal meaning in your art
Ways to loosen up and be more creative
Paint and mixed media application techniques
Join this class to discover and develop ways to make your paintings more creative, contemporary, and personal.
To see workshop dates and to register, click here.
To read more about creativity and abstracting, check out Jacqui's blog post: An Abstract Conversation: Going Deeper with Your Art