More Classes Coming in the Fall
In the fall, we will add more classes to become available for sign up. Level 1 : Mark making for non artists. Level 2: Marking making next steps for non artists. Level 3 Mark making for artists and non artists…
Category Painting
New Class Being Offered
Mark Making for People Who Can’t Draw An experimental, informal gathering to re-introduce ourselves to markmaking materials and the experiences they evoke. Six sessions, free of charge. We will convene via Zoom, 4 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time, on Mondays…
Art Making as Training for Death
Glimpses into the Vastness
It’s not that you attain the goal, but that all the light in the universe, falling toward you forever, finally arrives in your body. Excerpt from Another Cup, Savor Eternity One Moment at a Time Alfred K. Lamotte
Courting the Imaginal
Sweep Clean the chambers of the heart. We glimpse into the vastness of other realities by observing, our inner terrain to allow ourselves to be available for what the imaginal wishes to express. We listen and see the image and…
Slowly Slowly
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
Befriending the lack of Control
One remarkable thing about engaging with markmaking that includes water is that, when we add water to an initial water-soluble mark we have made, that mark begins to MOVE…it bleeds into adjacent marks…it sends a narrow stream down the page…it…
Becoming Salt
We as humans enter the sea and found we were invisible, dissolved, as we became like salt. Reduced but not destroyed. Absorbed in pure fluidity. Great movement in the sea churns and spews us on this hard solid surface. We…
Our Hands Perception
Our hands have their own cognition. We hold our hand’s palm to palm. We sense the sensations that move in our hands and possibly send signals throughout us. Images may surface, or our hand may lead us because we focus…
Sinking and Falling
Children see magic because they look for it. Children use their bodies to explore the world. They learn to become sensitive by rolling down hills, jumping up and down, twirling, swinging. hanging upside down, laying on the ground and seeing…
Play and Celebrating the Relief
This week I spent time with each member of our experimental group. I gathered a key word or feeling from each member to put together this prompt. Here it is. The fool hands you a magic box. In the box…
Grounding and Expanding
In our art group we are experimenting with Embodied Imagination through the act of making art. We begin with body awareness. We take note of where we are before the prompt begins for the days exploration. This week we worked…