Creating for Relaxation in Nature
• – • Austin, 78745
About this Club
Rejuvenate and relax using meditative creative techniques with your own art supplies. All levels of experience welcome.
Explore your creative practice to set intentions, release perfectionism, and make meaning. Use principles and elements of design as tools to soothe your nervous system, and come home to yourself. Share and converse with like-minded people in a natural setting.
✨WHAT TO EXPECT
✔️ There will be a loose agenda with freedom to come and go as needed.✔️ 1. Gather as a Group: Introductions and Set Intentions
✔️ 2. Drop In to a warm up using art media of choice. Practice letting go of perfection. Explore different marks and techniques. Discover Symbolism.
✔️ 3. Reflect and Share freely in a serene Austin natural setting.
🎒WHAT TO KNOW OR BRING
✔️ An art journal or paper.✔️ Chosen art supplies of any kind.
✔️ Consider ones that are easy to travel with.
✔️ A blanket or folding chair for your comfort sitting outside.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
I’m an illustrator and educator in Austin who began my career as an elementary Art teacher. I learned a tremendous amount in my early career from little children on creating things. When I moved into freelance in 2016, I began to lead corporate art making workshops, and was struck by the differences in how children and adults make art. One is full of freedom and joy, and one is full of contraction and nervousness. I’ll let you guess which is which ;-)
At the same time I was teaching at the Contemporary Art School in Austin, and noticed the course offerings were entirely product focused. Interestingly, little children (and all of us when we were little children) didn’t make art to make things. Small children make art to come home to themselves, have fun and relax! They have fun because the art for them isn’t the THING. Rather, THEY are the art! I have learned from many adult students over the years, that a practice in making to relax is incredibly important to thriving as creative people. Since 2020 I have been developing courses that re-introduce adults to the ways they made art as children.
This meet-up is a chance for anyone with a passion to make things, to gather in the fresh air, rejuvenate their nervous systems with art supplies and converse like minded creatives. Folks can re-enter their days more calm, grounded and nourished.
