Our blog contributors are educators, counselors, artists, activists, meditators and mavericks. We welcome you to this process arts community, where we’ll offer information, news, and reflections to support your painting practice.
Many painters and teachers ask us about the construction of The Painting Experience’s cardboard tripod easels. These big, sturdy tripods have many advantages: They’re easy to set up; they collapse for easy storage; and when [more...]
One of the ways our facilitators support painters at The Painting Experience is to direct them toward what they are feeling, or sensing, to access the body’s intelligence and to help bypass the thinking mind. [more...]
“Our fate restricts us so that our destiny can find us . . .” ~ Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul One of the insights that comes from process painting [more...]
To express spontaneously — that is, without a goal — is to practice presence, bringing our full selves to the painting with curiosity and interest. Artists are often considered to be the delicate barometers of [more...]
I’ve just returned from my annual retreat at Hui Ho’olana Retreat Center on the Island of Moloka’i. The ten days we spend painting at the Hui mark my longest painting retreat each year, and they [more...]
In a recent post, we linked to several articles offering scientific evidence for the benefits of creative practice. As therapists, we may fall into the trap of saying, “That’s nice, but when will I fit [more...]
We’re happy to offer the following guest post by Vancouver painter and art therapist Erica Pang, who recently attended a Painting Experience workshop on Granville Island. She first posted these reflections on Instagram at @ericapang.art and we couldn’t [more...]
As individuals, we who are affiliated with The Painting Experience are among millions of concerned people who actively support basic freedoms and rights—for immigrants, for women, for the environment, for anyone who lacks access to [more...]
I recently found myself explaining to a fellow architect who is also a professional painter the difference between product-based painting and process painting. Articulating the difference helped me to understand how profoundly I have been [more...]
Process painting gifts us with many insights and understandings that become landmarks in our own personal journey. It’s not a narcissistic activity, as some might think, because by working on ourselves, we are working on [more...]
