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How I Paint - A Process for Creative Flow with Patrick Lee
December 13 – December 14, 2025 · 10am-4pm
$345 members, $395 non-members
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How I Paint – A Process for Creative Flow and Authentic Style
Get to the heart of your authentic work and your personal style by:
- Making a lot of work (Quantity over Quality) - This quiets the internal critic and gives our unique ideas a chance to breathe.
- Having a deadline: The best antidote to procrastination and “waiting for inspiration”.
- Focusing on process over product: See the first two points…
Topics will include:
- Contour line drawing and memory
- Value and its use in design and pattern
- Use of the Notan in design and creative thought (improvisation)
- Solid drawing and values as a basis for “looseness”
- Keeping things simple
- Subjective color
- Breakdown and building back up of the image Other topics that will be addressed and discussed:
Interaction:
- Initial observations of the subject.
- Drawing the subject – a lot, in different media and techniques (contour line, value plans, notans, etc.)
- Consideration of the major design qualities of the subject, i.e. formal design aspects (line, shape, value, color, texture, edges, etc.)
Idea:
- “What is it about this subject that makes me want to paint it?”
- ”What is my intent?”
- ”What feeling do I want the final piece to convey?”
- "What is the creative concept?"
Process:
- Play and improvisation
- How will the painting (or drawing) be approached, technically?
- Blocking in
- Breaking down and building back up
- Abstraction
- Edges
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