In the first round of this course I had the live timetable here. Now of course there are unedited videos to watch available on demand. I do hope they will give you as close an experience as possible to being with me live. Feel free to send any questions to me privately that come up for you throughout the course.
I hope that you managed to meditate and dance or exercise daily from whenever you began the course and if you have, that you already feel the difference in your daily life and your attitude to painting
Initially please download this pdf. of the week's overview and the key journal questions for you Week 2 overview.pdf252.06 KB
Let me know how it's going for you in the comments below if you'd like to. Have you had any realisations?
In this video, I show you how I was thinking near the end of week one:
I hope you found the video helpful. If you would like to create your own assessment to share how you're thinking in the new Facebook group after it opens in Jan 2023 please do. Or vocalise it to yourself. It's amazing how things consolidate when said out loud. Do try that - ideally record yourself for your own use. Things like this will help write about your collection ultimately, for a website or gallery.
The aim this week is to explore different approaches to abstract or intuitive work with your "ingredients" list foremost in your mind so that your own desires for your work have centre stage and start to develop.
Withhold your desires for outcomes as long as you can; that way delightful or insightful discoveries happen. Open yourself up to possibilities that you won't know, until they happen.
If something I'm suggesting takes you away from what you want to be doing then do the thing you want to be doing! If you're lost, however, allow yourself to experiment or do similar things to me.
This week I'm continuing to work on thick acid-free cartridge paper but will move onto high-quality water colour paper with a couple of the exercises that excite me most and that I want to integrate into my collection for the art fair in Surrey in early March. I'll be taking works on paper to display in my browser - if all goes well! Remember that only you are setting a deadline for yourself.
In relation to a future collection what's exciting for you to aim for and also achievable?
You choose how or IF you want to do any exercise and on what surface and how large you want to work.
Depending on where you are in your thinking and practice you might want to go from paper to your chosen surface in a couple of days. For some, it might take a week or more of exploring before you're ready to do that. Like me, you might want to do a little of both.
I hope that some of the things we do together will fire you up enough that you feel you cannot wait to extend those particular explorations onto whatever surface excites you at the weekend. If you can give yourself the luxury of going deeper into exploration, do so. There's nothing better than giving yourself that freedom. If you haven't got a deadline then enjoy this exploratory time and make the most of it.
