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Classes 10/22 - 10/24 Debra Howard: Discover You Authentic Mark
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10/22 - 10/24 Debra Howard: Discover You Authentic Mark

from $525.00

A 3-Day Painting Workshop
Wednesday, October 22 thru Friday, October 23, 10am - 4pm

Unleash your unique artistic voice in this immersive 3-day workshop designed to help you find your one-of-a-kind painting style. Just as every signature is distinct, so too is your approach to mark-making. This workshop is about shedding external influences, letting go of comparisons, and diving deep into your personal creative process to uncover a style that’s authentically yours.

Need a place to stay? Skye House is offering affordable rates for this workshop. Click Here

What to Expect:
Day 1: Breaking Free from Influence
Through guided exercises, we’ll explore intuitive painting techniques to loosen up and connect with your instincts. Leave behind the pressure of trends and expectations to focus on what feels true to you.

Day 2: Exploring Your Unique Marks
Experiment with tools, textures, and techniques to discover the marks that resonate with your individuality. We’ll dive into playful, expressive activities to uncover your personal visual language.

Day 3: Refining Your Authentic Style
Reflect on your discoveries, refine your approach, and create a final piece that embodies your unique mark-making. Share your work in a supportive group setting to celebrate your authentic style.

Who This Is For:
Beginners and experienced painters alike who want to break free from external pressures and connect with their true artistic selves. No prior experience required—just an open mind and a willingness to explore. Details:

Materials:
Supply List provided. Bring the medium you usually use.
Additional supplies:
18x24 newsprint paper pad, charcoal, chamois, kneaded eraser

Join us to discover the marks that only you can make. Let’s paint without fear, without comparison, and with total authenticity.

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A 3-Day Painting Workshop
Wednesday, October 22 thru Friday, October 23, 10am - 4pm

Unleash your unique artistic voice in this immersive 3-day workshop designed to help you find your one-of-a-kind painting style. Just as every signature is distinct, so too is your approach to mark-making. This workshop is about shedding external influences, letting go of comparisons, and diving deep into your personal creative process to uncover a style that’s authentically yours.

Need a place to stay? Skye House is offering affordable rates for this workshop. Click Here

What to Expect:
Day 1: Breaking Free from Influence
Through guided exercises, we’ll explore intuitive painting techniques to loosen up and connect with your instincts. Leave behind the pressure of trends and expectations to focus on what feels true to you.

Day 2: Exploring Your Unique Marks
Experiment with tools, textures, and techniques to discover the marks that resonate with your individuality. We’ll dive into playful, expressive activities to uncover your personal visual language.

Day 3: Refining Your Authentic Style
Reflect on your discoveries, refine your approach, and create a final piece that embodies your unique mark-making. Share your work in a supportive group setting to celebrate your authentic style.

Who This Is For:
Beginners and experienced painters alike who want to break free from external pressures and connect with their true artistic selves. No prior experience required—just an open mind and a willingness to explore. Details:

Materials:
Supply List provided. Bring the medium you usually use.
Additional supplies:
18x24 newsprint paper pad, charcoal, chamois, kneaded eraser

Join us to discover the marks that only you can make. Let’s paint without fear, without comparison, and with total authenticity.

A 3-Day Painting Workshop
Wednesday, October 22 thru Friday, October 23, 10am - 4pm

Unleash your unique artistic voice in this immersive 3-day workshop designed to help you find your one-of-a-kind painting style. Just as every signature is distinct, so too is your approach to mark-making. This workshop is about shedding external influences, letting go of comparisons, and diving deep into your personal creative process to uncover a style that’s authentically yours.

Need a place to stay? Skye House is offering affordable rates for this workshop. Click Here

What to Expect:
Day 1: Breaking Free from Influence
Through guided exercises, we’ll explore intuitive painting techniques to loosen up and connect with your instincts. Leave behind the pressure of trends and expectations to focus on what feels true to you.

Day 2: Exploring Your Unique Marks
Experiment with tools, textures, and techniques to discover the marks that resonate with your individuality. We’ll dive into playful, expressive activities to uncover your personal visual language.

Day 3: Refining Your Authentic Style
Reflect on your discoveries, refine your approach, and create a final piece that embodies your unique mark-making. Share your work in a supportive group setting to celebrate your authentic style.

Who This Is For:
Beginners and experienced painters alike who want to break free from external pressures and connect with their true artistic selves. No prior experience required—just an open mind and a willingness to explore. Details:

Materials:
Supply List provided. Bring the medium you usually use.
Additional supplies:
18x24 newsprint paper pad, charcoal, chamois, kneaded eraser

Join us to discover the marks that only you can make. Let’s paint without fear, without comparison, and with total authenticity.

Debra Howard has been an artist and adventurer her entire life. She spent her childhood in Miami, Florida, where she first discovered her love affair with color, light, painting, and sailing. She studied at Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, and began her art career in San Francisco, where she opened her first illustration studio. After 17 years as a successful illustrator, she closed her studio to concentrate on fine art painting. “I realized that the career I had found so satisfying was being taken over by the computer. I missed the feel of the brush on canvas.” In response, she provisioned her Peterson 44 sailboat with art supplies, her old dog and her 4 year old daughter and began cruising. After almost 27 years of traveling, sailing and painting aboard, Ling Ling, she has come ashore and has turned her creative focus to painting the Eastern Shore and the Leelanau and Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan.

Her work as been featured in the American Scholar Magazine and Plein Air Magazine as well as numerous newspaper articles. She travels through the year, pulling a small RV trailer, competing in plein air competitions around the country and offering art workshops and artists talks.

Artist-in-Residence, Tangier Island, VA, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Debra has been juried into (and won) Plein Air competitions in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Maine, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, Indiana, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia and is a Signature Member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA). She a member Northport Arts Association, Glen Arbor Art Association, Crooked Tree Arts Center and the Somerset County Arts Council.

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