Hey guys, this is Jill, welcome to The LoosenUP workshop! This is my signature, 8-day-joy-ride into newfound watercolor freedom that will have you painting with loose brushwork from day one! Learn to work with a fresh, easy approach that brings a new joy and deeper connection with your creative process.
What will I learn?
The LoosenUP Workshop is designed to help you produce the fresh work you long for by guiding you to:
- loosen up your brushwork
- explore a more free and engaging approach to your subject
- gain confidence with watercolor techniques
- tap into your unique creative process
These are our Focus points for the week, and each is designed to produce results in your daily life and painting practice:
- painting techniques with full length paint demos
- self care sessions
- guided meditation
- creative habit assignments
It's like no painting workshop you've ever taken.
Actual samples of our daily sessions
How does it work?
Students will build new painting skills with a variety of techniques to create stunning visual textures, while gaining confidence with brushwork and color usage. During our sessions, you'll be guided to proactively ditch perfectionism and integrate new creative habits that are sure to bring a new joy and freedom into your work!
The workshop is designed to begin on a Monday, but can be started anytime.
DAY // 01 //Monday
Loosening Up Session, Technique Demo
Spend time with your materials & build a relationship with your pigments and brushes and paper so that you can know what to expect from them.
We’ll explore freestyle work that helps uncover your tendencies and preferences.
DAY // 02 // Tuesday
Guided Meditation, Painting Session
We’ll spend a few minutes shifting our focus onto painting and discovery using meditation as a tool. It’s quick, simple, and enjoyable. We’ll also move right into our painting session and practice using some of our freestyle techniques from Monday.
DAY // 03 // Wednesday
Creative Process Session with Painting Exercise
Today we’ll spend time talking about the creative process and the habits necessary for artistic growth and development, like filling your creative well, self examination, preferences, and procrastination. This can change your whole creative trajectory!
DAY // 04 // Thursday
Mindsets for the Artist, Technique Demo
Our perspectives shape everything we think, say, and do, so it’s very important to make sure we’re staying healthy in this area so we don’t sabotage our creativity. Negativity and false truths are the most common mental setbacks, and can be subtle as well as bold, Let’s talk about the differences and how to spot them, and apply that to ourselves and our artwork.
DAY // 05 // Friday
Kicking Perfectionism to the Curb, Let’s Paint!
Let’s infuse our painting with freedom today and integrate some new mindsets while we work to create a fun piece with lots of drama and fun.
DAY // 06-07 // Saturday-Sunday
Filling Your Creative Well, Painting Session
This weekend, set aside time to fill your creative well with at least one artist’s date. Options can include a hike, visit a museum, walk around town, go to a park, anything that can inspire a fresh perspective and provide a spark for a new painting. Then make at least a couple of small paintings over the weekend with your new perspectives and inspiration.
DAY // 08 // Monday
Overview, Experimental Demo
Let’s expand once more before we wrap up with some experimental watercolors that you can make yourself, to personalize your own work in new ways.
See what others have to say about the LoosenUp Workshop!
Workshop details:
The LoosenUP Workshop™ is designed for all skill levels to complete at your own pace. Each of the sessions is specifically designed to help you make shifts and changes in your painting process, and your internal paradigms as it relates to painting. Students will be guided step-by-step through the various painting techniques and strategies, enabling them to come away with a wide variety of new skills in addition to healthier mindsets about their creative process. This unique painting workshop invites the participants to look within and consider encouraging ways to enhance their inner dialogue, and nurture a new healthy perspective toward their creative endeavors. It's truly a unique combination, and unlike any painting workshop you've taken before.
Frequently asked questions:
If you are wanting to loosen up your painting style, avoid stiff paintings, and develop a more confident, free flowing style in watercolor, this workshop is for you. In addition, if you struggle with confidence or a sense of perfectionism in your work, you'll find yourself encouraged with a newfound freedom in your work.
You will have access to all of your paid content here on my website by logging in to the private instruction portal. Login info is provided at the time of your purchase.
You have lifetime access to the lessons and downloadable reference photos, and can work at your own pace.
WATERCOLORIST
Jill Williams
I really look forward to making a connection with you through this workshop. As an instructor, and a painter, I've enjoyed watching so many watercolorists find a new sense of freedom and confidence to infuse into their own painting style through these sessions. Whether your focus is abstraction or realism, the techniques and mindsets gained will bring a new level of skill, and a fresh, new energy into your work.
LoosenUP Workshop
Welcome to the LoosenUP Workshop! We’re going to learn to loosen up, explore new techniques, dive into our creative process, and learn ways to strengthen our inner artist so that we can make our best work!
99.00 USD
Thank you for your purchase!
Check your inbox for welcome info and register on my site by creating a password to access your new content!
If you have already registered on my site for other content, simply log in to see your new course.