Focus: Reflection & Continuation — celebrating your creative growth and honoring who you are becoming through layered expression.

Description: This final workshop is a time to pause, look back, and create from a place of quiet awareness. Using familiar tools like stencils, brushes, stamps, and texture, you’ll build a layered mixed-media painting that reflects the many versions of yourself that have emerged along the way. Each mark and color becomes a conversation between what was and what’s next. There’s no single way this piece should look. Some layers will hide beneath others; some will shine through. Just like life, it’s a reflection of movement, change, and the beauty of imperfection. This process is less about finishing a painting and more about being present with what unfolds.

What You’ll Experience:

• Space to reflect on your creative and personal growth throughout the series

• Freedom to explore layering and composition as symbols of becoming

• A sense of completion that honors both progress and openness to what comes next

Techniques: intuitive mixed-media layering, color blending, gesture painting, mark-making, use of stencils and texture tools.

Surface: your choice of hard surface or canvas (recommended size at least 16 × 20 inches).

Materials: please bring your own paints, brushes, and favorite tools. A list of recommended materials and links will be provided ahead of class.