Remember being a kid, pushing around some paint, scribbling with delight, choosing colors because you like them and for no other reason, making marks because you can?

In this class we will boil painting down to the most basic exercise of mark making. There’s no pressure to make a “thing.” We’ll talk about our inner critic and when that needling voice can enter the conversation between you and the paper. We’ll talk about how judgement can be a giant brick wall in the practice of expression. You will learn to tap into your experience and utilize your intuition.

This is my daily practice. I have done this in a million different ways, in a sketchbook, on a piece of butcher paper on my wall, on the actual walls in public, and my favorite is the way we’ll do it in this class, four paintings at once.

I will teach you how to prepare your paper for framing later. You will also have access to all of my supplies (charcoal, pencil, markers, acrylic inks, acrylic paints, brushes, and the scraping tools that I use).

Notes about intuition from Albert Einstein:

“The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”