PAINT WITH INTENTION - ABSTRACT ART AND WELLBEING RETREAT

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Spend a day filled with Positive Psychology and Abstract art exercises helping you to cultivating mindfulness, joy and take home your own large masterpiece! ...Walthamstowfrom £90 pp6hrsBeginnerNext available date:24th September 2023

WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS CLASS?

Spend a day filled with Positive Psychology and Abstract art exercises helping you to cultivating mindfulness, joy and take home your own large masterpiece!

This one day art & wellness retreat is designed to help you let go of inner judgement, refocus your attention to positive experiences and immerse yourself in the flow of creating art.

This session is held at The Twelfth House in Walthamstow where we have our very own room with loads of natural light, in an intimate group of 10 maximum.

Tickets include unlimited tea, coffee, and non alcoholic refreshments, snacks, a canvas bag (which you will be encouraged to paint on with your left over paints on your tools), with all materials, an a5 sized workbook and a deep edge 61x45.5cm canvas.

You are also welcome to bring in your favourite alcoholic /non alcoholic refreshments with you too. There are shops and cafes nearby to grab them and you can also pair up with others to order takeaway to the venue if you like.

Schedule: The day will start off with having coffe and breakfast together during an introduction into Positive Psychology, followed by a Mindful Journalling and Colour exercise.

Then you will be intived to take part in creating an artwork with your eyes closed, designed to conquer the inner judge.

Followed by this we will break off for lunch and you can either enjoy lunch that you brought in the park nearby, pop over to the cafe across the road or enjoy the snacks provided.

The second half of the day will be all about creating your joyful masterpiece!

After theses you will engage in a warm up painting activity to ease into colour mixing, explore tools and let go of judgement (such as the 'I'm not an artist' mindset, - we are all artists deep within.)

The next exercise will be during our walk in nature. You will be asked to look for things that bring you joy, then pick your favourite, which will be the basis of your colour palette. This exercise will help you refocus you attention to positive experiences. Where attention goes, grows!

The colours from which, you will be taught to mix your own palette by Anna, the professional Artist host after which you will experiment with her painting tools then get started on your final artwork.

This activity will require to have a phone charged, with camera to record sceneries you see on your walk that bring you joy and inspire you to create.

Followed by this when we arrived back, you will print your favourite picture from your walk and stick in your workbook the help of which I will guide you to create your joyful colour palette by picking three colours as a starting point, mix them up with artist guidance and expand your palette by experimenting with various shades.

After all this we will focus on engaging in creative flow. You will have three hours to create your masterpiece.

Once you established your palette, you will receive your large 61x45.5cm canvas and have 3 hours to paint away alongside Anna with the choice of her tools.

This exercise also starts of with aspects of mindfulness as you will need to mix all of your paints (encouraged) by hand, but if you have sensitive skin glowes will be provided.

Tickets : Art & Wellbeing Retreat for 1: -£100/£90 Early Bird : Including all materials for the 6 hours 2xA4 and one large 61x45.5cm deep edge canvas, unlimited non alcoholic refreshments, teas, coffe and snacks.

Art & Wellbeing Retreat for 6: -£540/£486 Early Bird : Including all materials each for the 6 hours,2xA4 and two large 61x45.5cm deep edge canvas each, unlimited non alcoholic refreshments, teas, coffe and snacks.

Art & Wellbeing Retreat for 10: -£850/£765 Early Bird : Including all materials each for the 6 hours,2xA4 and two large 61x45.5cm deep edge canvas each, unlimited non alcoholic refreshments, teas, coffe and snacks.

Please note we will take pictures during the day to use on social media. If you don't want to be part content we create, please let us know when booking your tickets and if you would like us to tag you, please let us know your Instagram handle.

We love to see your masterpieces so please feel free to tag us @annakosa_fineart_and_interiors!