Mixed Media ART Cards in Acrylics | Theresa Rule

About this workshop

In this workshop, students will create their own collection of ART cards to be used as you see fit: framed for a wall in your home; framed as a gift; or even as a card to share your words and your art on for someone special.

Theresa will start with warm-up drawing exercises to help get the creative process flowing, then let the mark-making painting and fun begin!

Over a series of large sheets of art paper, masked off into sections, under Theresa's supervision you will create abstract mixed media work. The artwork will then be sliced up allowing you to work further into the pieces to individualise them with collage paper, pencil marks, words... the options are endless!

The focus will be to encourage and support your inner artist, to produce original ART Cards to take away with you.

Who is this workshop suitable for?

Absolutely everyone. No experience is necessary.

What do I need to bring?

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Please bring your lunch and snacks or you can purchase from cafes close by. We do have a fridge and microwave at the studio for your convenience.

What is provided?

• tea, coffee (please bring your own cup) • a friendly, supportive and encouraging learning environment • connection to the Bienarté art community

About the Tutor

Theresa Rule is an Abstract Intuitive Artist. She doesn’t work from photographs or sketches and she doesn’t always have a specific view in mind when she paints. Instead, she starts with a mark, a colour, a memory, a word or piece of music in her head and goes from there, painting with a period of ‘play’ or experimentation, moving paint, mark-making, trying out ideas. Sometimes she sands her paintings back after a few layers of paint, revealing interesting textures and surprising marks. And then she begins to layer again.

Theresa enjoys trying to communicate without words when putting a piece of work together; she likes to make her paintings a visual journey, where the discovery of small details within the work helps build a story or evokes an emotion within the viewer that draws them back to the piece again and again.