Are you curious about doing drawing and painting to relax, calm your nervous system, and get in touch with your inner artist? Introducing: "Somatic Drawing and Painting" - a body-based, breath based approach to making lines, brushstrokes, colors, shapes, and textures on paper or canvas. We are more interested in the act of making a drawing than the "final product." Day 1 was all black and white, and I used mainly charcoal. We did sensation mapping, breath mandalas, and bilateral drawing (with both hands at the same time). I was so wonderfully relaxed when we were done! Some of these are wild! Check these out and tell me what you think!

I need your input on which tutorial you'd like to see in the classroom first. Choose one from the list below. And if you'd like a tutorial on something not listed- please let me know in the comments. Thanks everyone.

Drawing and Painting Meditations: Expressive Mark-Making for Creative Presence This workshop will take place on Zoom, for 4 Sundays at 3:30-5:30 MST (Arizona time), May 17-June 7. For complete beginners - advanced artists who want to expand their visual vocabulary. Open to any drawing and painting media; pencils, markers, crayons, watercolor, coffee, etc... Click here for more info and to register: https://expressivemarks.carrd.co/

Next month, I'm offering a 4-week live, signature online art workshop. We would meet in my (virtual) studio once per week for 11/2 hours. Please let me know which topic interests you more.....See examples for each course in the comments below.

...with red cabbage of course! Here are my results from two rounds of dyeing with red cabbage. These are silk and wool, scoured first, and then mordanted with alum. Straight red cabbage water gives a beautiful purple. Adding baking soda gives a blue or green depending on how much baking soda you add. Adding vinegar or lemon juice gives a magenta. The wool had a yellow tint to it, so that warmed up the colors quite a lot.