Intuitive Painting (Online Workshop) Summer 2025 w/ Gabriella Buckingham
July 22 to August 5 (Tuesdays) 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/Ym8JzpGhNBc
Workshop Description
For three weeks, you will explore intuitive acrylic and mixed-media painting and discover what feels exciting and natural for you. With exercises in week one discover how you naturally draw and paint from imagination using a colour palette you will mix first. You’ll be making and adjusting a mood board from week one to keep you grounded in your intentions for your work. Come to the workshop knowing what genre you want to concentrate on or with the intention to explore intuitive landscape, still life, pure abstraction or any combination of elements with Gabriella. See what emerges! In the last session you will confidently start to work on a small series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces to complete in your own time. Gabriella will be teaching and painting live so you are able to share work and ask questions at any point.
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Colour mixing creating a harmonious colour palette inspired by your past work and other current inspirations. A series of exercises to explore how you paint intuitively; your potential subject matter; composition; mark making; and emotion.
Week 2
Gabriella will share inspirational work by other artists and pieces of her own.
You will make many quick compositions on paper exploring what you enjoyed from week 1. Quantity over quality and follow your inspiration.
Consider experimenting on your preferred surfaces too this week.
Define your aims for the final pieces at the end of this session and before the next.
Week 3
Warm up exercises on a spare surface! Then you'll start on your series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces moving from one to the other.
Keep working on that spare if you prefer. You can share your work at any point for discussion or feedback.
Workshop Materials List
Several loose sheets of thick smooth paper large paper to do fast exercises on and compositions on for a couple of weeks ideally thick enough to take some water and paint. We have thick cartridge paper in the UK and you could progress to using watercolour paper and other surfaces as you experiment.
Old work you are happy to paint over, pre-sanded if necessary.
Other thinner papers for collage - optional - acrylic soft gel to use as glue.
Masking tape.
All your favourite tools and brushes. Perhaps a Gelli plate if you have one.
Palette knives, a medium size flat one is ideal to mix your paints in jars.
Neocolour 1 and or oil pastels if you have them.
Scissors or a scalpel.
120 grade sandpaper
Several clean jam jars or tubs for paint mixing. These must have lids to keep your paint dry over our three weeks.
A palette/s - either a StayWet one or a tray with an absorbent wet layer, over which you put baking parchment or kitchen paper.
Golden Acrylic paints - 250ml tub of Primary yellow, Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan and a Titanium white (any brand).
This is so that you can really explore colour mixing. With these particular paints you can create almost any colour.
Alternatively your own choice of paints but ideally a warm and a cool version of red, blue and yellow so that you have at least six paints perhaps plus magenta. You could also bring a dark colour like paynes grey. Eg, cadmium red & alizarin crimson, cerulean blue & ultramarine, and cadmium yellow and lemon.
Your choice of acrylic medium to extend paint.
Your choice of surfaces for week 3 (and try out some in week 2)
White Gesso for paper surfaces or Sandable gesso if you will be working on a firm surface like wood panels or canvas board.
July 22 to August 5 (Tuesdays) 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/Ym8JzpGhNBc
Workshop Description
For three weeks, you will explore intuitive acrylic and mixed-media painting and discover what feels exciting and natural for you. With exercises in week one discover how you naturally draw and paint from imagination using a colour palette you will mix first. You’ll be making and adjusting a mood board from week one to keep you grounded in your intentions for your work. Come to the workshop knowing what genre you want to concentrate on or with the intention to explore intuitive landscape, still life, pure abstraction or any combination of elements with Gabriella. See what emerges! In the last session you will confidently start to work on a small series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces to complete in your own time. Gabriella will be teaching and painting live so you are able to share work and ask questions at any point.
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Colour mixing creating a harmonious colour palette inspired by your past work and other current inspirations. A series of exercises to explore how you paint intuitively; your potential subject matter; composition; mark making; and emotion.
Week 2
Gabriella will share inspirational work by other artists and pieces of her own.
You will make many quick compositions on paper exploring what you enjoyed from week 1. Quantity over quality and follow your inspiration.
Consider experimenting on your preferred surfaces too this week.
Define your aims for the final pieces at the end of this session and before the next.
Week 3
Warm up exercises on a spare surface! Then you'll start on your series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces moving from one to the other.
Keep working on that spare if you prefer. You can share your work at any point for discussion or feedback.
Workshop Materials List
Several loose sheets of thick smooth paper large paper to do fast exercises on and compositions on for a couple of weeks ideally thick enough to take some water and paint. We have thick cartridge paper in the UK and you could progress to using watercolour paper and other surfaces as you experiment.
Old work you are happy to paint over, pre-sanded if necessary.
Other thinner papers for collage - optional - acrylic soft gel to use as glue.
Masking tape.
All your favourite tools and brushes. Perhaps a Gelli plate if you have one.
Palette knives, a medium size flat one is ideal to mix your paints in jars.
Neocolour 1 and or oil pastels if you have them.
Scissors or a scalpel.
120 grade sandpaper
Several clean jam jars or tubs for paint mixing. These must have lids to keep your paint dry over our three weeks.
A palette/s - either a StayWet one or a tray with an absorbent wet layer, over which you put baking parchment or kitchen paper.
Golden Acrylic paints - 250ml tub of Primary yellow, Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan and a Titanium white (any brand).
This is so that you can really explore colour mixing. With these particular paints you can create almost any colour.
Alternatively your own choice of paints but ideally a warm and a cool version of red, blue and yellow so that you have at least six paints perhaps plus magenta. You could also bring a dark colour like paynes grey. Eg, cadmium red & alizarin crimson, cerulean blue & ultramarine, and cadmium yellow and lemon.
Your choice of acrylic medium to extend paint.
Your choice of surfaces for week 3 (and try out some in week 2)
White Gesso for paper surfaces or Sandable gesso if you will be working on a firm surface like wood panels or canvas board.
July 22 to August 5 (Tuesdays) 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/Ym8JzpGhNBc
Workshop Description
For three weeks, you will explore intuitive acrylic and mixed-media painting and discover what feels exciting and natural for you. With exercises in week one discover how you naturally draw and paint from imagination using a colour palette you will mix first. You’ll be making and adjusting a mood board from week one to keep you grounded in your intentions for your work. Come to the workshop knowing what genre you want to concentrate on or with the intention to explore intuitive landscape, still life, pure abstraction or any combination of elements with Gabriella. See what emerges! In the last session you will confidently start to work on a small series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces to complete in your own time. Gabriella will be teaching and painting live so you are able to share work and ask questions at any point.
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Colour mixing creating a harmonious colour palette inspired by your past work and other current inspirations. A series of exercises to explore how you paint intuitively; your potential subject matter; composition; mark making; and emotion.
Week 2
Gabriella will share inspirational work by other artists and pieces of her own.
You will make many quick compositions on paper exploring what you enjoyed from week 1. Quantity over quality and follow your inspiration.
Consider experimenting on your preferred surfaces too this week.
Define your aims for the final pieces at the end of this session and before the next.
Week 3
Warm up exercises on a spare surface! Then you'll start on your series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces moving from one to the other.
Keep working on that spare if you prefer. You can share your work at any point for discussion or feedback.
Workshop Materials List
Several loose sheets of thick smooth paper large paper to do fast exercises on and compositions on for a couple of weeks ideally thick enough to take some water and paint. We have thick cartridge paper in the UK and you could progress to using watercolour paper and other surfaces as you experiment.
Old work you are happy to paint over, pre-sanded if necessary.
Other thinner papers for collage - optional - acrylic soft gel to use as glue.
Masking tape.
All your favourite tools and brushes. Perhaps a Gelli plate if you have one.
Palette knives, a medium size flat one is ideal to mix your paints in jars.
Neocolour 1 and or oil pastels if you have them.
Scissors or a scalpel.
120 grade sandpaper
Several clean jam jars or tubs for paint mixing. These must have lids to keep your paint dry over our three weeks.
A palette/s - either a StayWet one or a tray with an absorbent wet layer, over which you put baking parchment or kitchen paper.
Golden Acrylic paints - 250ml tub of Primary yellow, Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan and a Titanium white (any brand).
This is so that you can really explore colour mixing. With these particular paints you can create almost any colour.
Alternatively your own choice of paints but ideally a warm and a cool version of red, blue and yellow so that you have at least six paints perhaps plus magenta. You could also bring a dark colour like paynes grey. Eg, cadmium red & alizarin crimson, cerulean blue & ultramarine, and cadmium yellow and lemon.
Your choice of acrylic medium to extend paint.
Your choice of surfaces for week 3 (and try out some in week 2)
White Gesso for paper surfaces or Sandable gesso if you will be working on a firm surface like wood panels or canvas board.