Art Exploration Workshop with Alison Press

Art Exploration is a series of mixed media workshops that are fun, playful art making activities suitable for all levels of experience from beginners to advanced visual creatives.

Each week Alison will lead through presentations and prompts with emphasis on designing and painting abstracted artworks on canvas. New concepts and techniques will be added weekly. Painting processes will all start with quickly drawn sketches that serve simply as a guide to begin. Precision is absolutely not necessary, as folks will be asked to work intuitively and abstractly in producing their individual artworks. Then the paint, papers and marks will be used to build up the painting. The basics of color selection, composition and other art principles will be discussed. Subject matters will include still life florals, landscapes and purely abstracted compositions too. All subject ideas are welcome and will be explored. At the end of each workshop each attendee will have a unique, colorful, and…