Creative Play Water Colour Finger Painting Virtual Workshop

This playful workshop has been created to give you an opportunity to let go of expectations and have some fun with cutting loose and tapping into your creativity no matter your level of experience with water colour or painting. All from the comfort of your own home or space.

In collaboration with artist, art teacher and NLP coach, Lynn Shoemaker, we have created a workshop that isn't 'just a painting class'. We'll learn learn how to play with water colour but more importantly we'll learn how to allow ourselves to let go of expectations and simply allow ourselves to create. 

Why get creative?

There is plenty of research available at our fingertips for why creativity is so powerful

• Engaging in the arts can help boost confidence and makes us feel more resilient
• Creative activities improve brain function, mental health, and physical health
• Reduces anxiety, depression, and stress 
• Creativity helps people manage their negative emotions, express trauma or experiences that they find too difficult to put in to words
• Creative activities such as painting and drawing can help focus the mind, and has even been compared to meditation due to its calming effects on the brain and body
• Increases happiness, 
• Reduces Dementia
• Improves mental health
• Boosts your immune system
• Makes you smarter

Basically creativity is seriously good shit. It's great for you and I say bring it on.

Why finger painting?

By keeping it simple you don't have to think about your paint brushes and all sorts of fancy stuff

Get back to basics without all the fancy stuff like we did as kids

Remember when every painting, no matter how we created it, was a master piece to put on the fridge - let's play there

Because getting your hands dirty and covered in paint is fun

What you'll need:

Watercolors of any type - kids set will do

Water color paper - you can use regular but it will get ripples  

Container that will hold water 

Paper towels or old cloth or T-shirt to wipe fingers on  

Optional: 

Salt 

Saran Wrap 

Masking tape 

Paint masking agent

miscellaneous sized containers with some type of rim

Piece of cardboard or similar to lean on

What to expect

Maximum of 10 people playing so that you can each be supported personally

Pixie will facilitate the welcome, introduction and meet your fabulous community of fellow creative ladies

We will then do a short meditation to bring you into the space ready for Lynn to guide us thorugh the practicalities of working with water colour and most importantly letting go and having fun with it.

Let's play!!

About Lynn

Lynne has always loved art. She's drawn since she was a kid and kept doing art classes in high school. When she went to college she was undecided but chose graphic design at first and then switched to Art education. She taught for prior to having her son and and has continued to do art to this day be it drawing, painting, 3-D or textiles.