Movement and Process for Abstract Painting

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Sunday, Dec 15, 2019 1pm - 4pm

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Move, dance, draw and paint! Connect with your unique, authentic, always available, creative source through embodied movement. Deepen your creative process, learn basic color-mixing and painting techniques for abstract painting. Using mindfulness and movement we will dialogue with our bodies' natural creativity to find inspiring new pathways to making evocative and meaningful art. This will be playful, deep, healing and fun!

In this workshop, we will:
- guided movement explorations
- expressive drawings
- color mixing with acrylic paint
- learn about painting process
- create several abstract process paintings on paper with guidance and feedback

The following supplies are included:
- oil pastels
- newsprint
acrylic paints
- paintbrushes in various sizes
- paper palettes
- palette knives
- several sheets of 140 lb watercolor paper per person
- water buckets
- spray bottles

You can bring:
- comfortable clothes and shoes that you can move in and don't mind getting paint on
- an openness to exploring movement/dance and your inner awareness a willingness to venture out of your comfort zone a desire to move, draw, play with color and paint!

You will go home with:
- Several drawings and abstract acrylic paintings
- A deeper connection to your creative source
- Tools for shifting out of ANY creative block
- Resources for a creative process that supports healing and self-care More creative freedom and inspiration

ANNA SOFIA AMEZCUA
Anna Sofia Amezcua's abstract paintings and murals use color and physicality to express visceral emotion and felt experience. Her process is intuitive, expressive, and gestural, and informed by her background in movement and dance as well as an acute sensitivity to color. Through powerful and intimate expression, she delves beneath the surface to encourage and validate deep emotionality and the strength in vulnerability. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, New York, where she studied painting, dance and literature. She also attended Oxford University, Oxford, England, and studied Movement Based Expressive Arts at the Tamalpa Institute in Marin County, California. Anna Sofia exhibits her works both nationally and internationally and is included in various private collections. She brings her life-long study of body-centered practices to her Embodied Abstract Painting Workshops, in which she facilitates deeper connection to authentic creativity through movement-inspired painting. She lives and works in Eureka, California.
Website: annaamezcua.com
IG: @annasofie