Expanding and Cultivating Your Creative Practice
This is key to your growth. This is how you flourish and find success within your creative journey.
How do you do that?
Embrace and absorb as much creative knowledge as you can.
Reach out to other artists and watch, listen - observe.
Practice and create more daily
be ok with the mistakes as much as you are ok with the success
In this course I want to introduce you to creating the expressive mixed media portrait. I want to give you an invitation to play within your practice so you can LEARN and GROW. These three lesson are just small projects that can help you gain creative confidence, find new tips and techniques to expand your practice and to expand your creative mindset to new and amazing things.
Do you need to follow each lesson perfectly?
Nope - use each lesson as inspiration if you want. Take a little bit here and there.
So have fun - watch and learn - embrace and absorb. Take some time to cultivate your creativity.
Your Creative Soul will Thank YOU!!!
BEGINNING
Course One
Supplies:
16x20 Canvas
Derwent Inktense Pencil - Brown Madder, Deep Indigo
Spray Water Bottle
Assorted Brushes in different sizes and shapes
Acrylic Paint - Burnt Sienna, Dark Purple, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, Prussian Blue, Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold, Quinacridone Magenta
Paper towel
Colorful Embroidery thread and needle
In this Creative Souls Art Sessions, you will share in the creation of a mixed media journey - using intuitive flow and story to guide your way.
Creating with a STORY in mind - is an amazing way to invite YOUR own style to emerge. Tapping into what is inside can help you navigate your creative process outside. This process is never stagnant or fixed - your creative story will change as YOU change and transform as you flourish and grow.
BELIEVING
Course Two
Supplies:
16x20 Canvas
Acrylic Ink - Sepia
Spray Water Bottle
Assorted Brushes in different sizes and shapes
Acrylic Paint - Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Medium, Ivory Black, Cobalt Blue
Paper towel
White Gesso
Stencil
In this lesson we focusing on believing - believing how amazing we can be as creatives. We practice by using a specific limited palette - known as the Zorn Palette. I have included a video that explains and demonstrates a grid of how amazing the range these colors can create for skin tone.
CREATING
Course Three
Supplies:
18x24 Canvas
Lyra Graphite Pencil
Acrylic paint: white, Prussian blue, celadon green (Dick Blick Matte Acrylic), Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold, Fluorescent Pink, Fluorescent Orange, Pthalo Turquoise, Teal.
Matte Gel Medium
Tissue Paper
Catalyst Scraper tool
Assorted brushes in different shapes and sizes
In this lesson we play with intuitive flow, collage and color. Choosing color and shape that speaks to us within our creative soul and inviting all of it to translate onto a canvas. Pure FUN, exploration and visioning.