Intuitive Painting Workshop: Techniques, Prompts and Inspiration for a Year of Painting
By Books That Inspire / November 20, 2015 / 3 Comments / Inspiration
A Year of Painting Intuitively!
Stay inspired to create art throughout every season! In Intuitive Painting Workshop, you’ll find a timely expressive exercise for each month, along with seasonal check-ins. In discovering how to paint intuitively, you will learn to surrender to your true visual voice as your personal process of making marks emerges. Using acrylic paint, ink, collage papers, stencils, watercolor, gel pens, paint markers and more, you’ll be gently guided by twelve exercises, taking cues from the process, but carrying each in your own direction.
Explore monthly exercises, each offering you a new area of growth from setting intentions, to painting wildly, to getting know your animal totems and much more.Receive suggestions for painting with a “beginner’s mind” and a glossary of art terms will make following the step-by-step demonstrations clear and easy to understand.Get further ideas from a monthly gallery of contributing artists who were students of this process, just like you!Have a chance to assimilate your creative focus every few months with seasonal Check-In journaling prompts and ideas for reflection.Stay inspired month-by-month and season-to-season with Intuitive Painting Workshop!
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This book is filled to the brim with inspiration! This book is filled to brim with inspiration! It is visually stunning and there is so much here ~ it will keep your creative juices flowing for well over a year. Alena is an incredibly generous teacher and wise soul, so you’re going to find a lot of practical information on color theory, composition and materials… as well as prompts to deepen your creative expression and help you make art that you are going to fall in love with.
I have done all the lessons so i can truly vouch for how fun they are I am writing this review as one of the many who took Alena Hennessy’s popular “Year of Painting” class of which this book was inspired. You will see several of my paintings included in the pages. I have done all the lessons so i can truly vouch for how fun they are. One of the many things i love about this book is that it doesn’t matter if you are an artist who paints everyday or if you have never painted before. This book is full of inspiring examples and i think you will love creating…
Alena does a beautiful and amazing job of breaking down the year into … This is a treasure of teachings and inspiration! Alena does a beautiful and amazing job of breaking down the year into prompts that nudge you into a painting world like no other. She is a very gifted painter and teacher and it is showcased in this book.