SOULFUL ABSTRACTS
Are you ready to take a deep and delightful dive into YOUR art? Come explore your unique creative language: your colors, textures, symbols, compositions and the stories your soul longs to tell, all through the freeing and forgiving process of of mixed media abstract painting!
Registration opens on September 30th
What if playing with mixed media abstracts gave you the freedom to explore your true personal voice as an artist? What if you could create beautifully layered mixed media paintings that tell your stories and resonate deeply: abstract art from the heart?
Soulful Abstracts is a deep dive into your own unique artistic language: your colors, mark-making, textures, symbols, stories and more. Join me as we play with the rules and create beautiful, meaningful art that radiates with Soul!
what’s included:
Over 18 hours of video lessons. You will feel like you are right here with me in the studio as I create and explain every little detail of what I do!
Structured lessons that build upon each other to grow your skills & confidence.
Creative tips & activities to unlock inspiration and paint from your inner soul.
Curated inspiration for each lesson, with hundreds of images organized by theme on Pinterest.
All about my favorite mixed media art supplies + tips on how to use them creatively!
Lots of warm-up activities & projects to explore your art language: color, mark-making, texture, composition, symbols and more.
Eight painting projects. You will end up with a whole body of work as we paint:
4 series of small artworks
4 larger paintings on canvas / panel
A beautiful classroom with private community forum to enjoy the lessons, ask me questions, post your photos & connect with fellow participants, all in one place (no need to be on Facebook)
An optional student group on Facebook to make friends and keep the conversation going!
The class is in English and closed captions are available on all videos.
There are so many ways to invite inspiration! This first part of the class is all about getting inspired and more confident before we dive into the heart of the course and get creating!
This second part of the class is all about discovering your own unique art language. We will explore color, mark-making, texture and composition with plenty of experimental warm-ups in our sketchbook, as well as a series of mini artworks for each of theme!
I believe that working in a series is one of the best ways to learn and improve your skills, plus you will end up with a whole body of work to be proud of. I will guide you to create a whole series for each of the four themes below:
Color is just pure, beautiful energy and it resonates with us so deeply. It is all about emotion, mood and atmosphere. There are colors, and color combinations that you will immediately love, and others you just won’t be able to stand! This “gut feeling” is your best bet when it comes to uncover your personal palette, the one that instantly feels like home to your soul. So this is what we are going to start with!
Mark-making is such an important element of art, and abstract art in particular because our marks convey so much of our energy and our personality. They are as unique as our fingerprints! That’s why they are key to building your unique artistic voice, your language and your style. Get ready to get messy because this lesson is choke-full of fun activities for you to explore and uncover YOUR marks.
Touch is all about connection. When we work with texture to create a dimensional surface, we can connect with our viewers at a much deeper level. Plus playing with textured materials and getting messy is just so much fun! We’re going to experiment with plenty of dimensional effects like stencils, collage and fiber, then we will use color to reveal the texture of the surface: pure magic!
If you think of color, marks and texture as the "words" of your abstract language, then you can think of composition as the story-telling part of the process. And it doesn’t have to be complicated! As long as you follow your soul, there are no “rules”: only tips and tools that are here to help you tell your story. We will start by playing with layers on a large sheet of paper, then look for accidental abstracts in the surface to create a series all about serendipity!
In this final part of the class, I am taking you on 4 magical Art & Soul journeys, with three in-depth painting lessons + a bonus project! We will take everything we’ve discovered and create poetic paintings that tell our stories, carry our intentions and radiate with soul. We will find meaning and joy in the process itself, and infuse this beautiful energy into the art we create.
kind words
From the students
your guide for this creative journey
I'm so glad you’re here! I’m a mixed media artist from France, and I’m here to help you grow your artist wings! What if you listened to your creative longings? What if you dared to follow this little spark? I believe with my whole heart that YOUR ART MATTERS. It is your gift to the world, and now is your time to let it shine!