Finding Your Happy Medium Workshop
A playful mixed-media workshop for curiosity, experimentation, and creative discovery.
This workshop invites people to explore a range of materials, including watercolor, acrylic, and oil pastel, in a way that feels open, process-based, and low pressure.
Simple breathwork is woven throughout to help everyone settle in, get out of their heads, and drop into a more intuitive way of making.
Instead of asking people to commit to one way of working, this workshop gives them room to try, notice, and follow what genuinely draws them. It is an on-ramp into intuitive artmaking and a chance to discover which materials, marks, and sensations feel most alive.
Here’s What Happens
We begin with a short introduction to intuitive artmaking and then shift from overthinking to embodied making. From there, participants are guided through three short material explorations, each paired with a different breath-based prompt.
As people move through watercolor, acrylic, and oil pastel, they begin to notice what each material feels like in their hands and what they naturally gravitate toward. The workshop ends with open creative time so each person can continue with the material that called to them most.
How It Goes
Introduction to intuitive artmaking, including process over product, preschool mindset, and embodied making
Three guided material explorations with demos and breathwork woven in
Drawing Breath
Feeling Breath
Bilateral Breath Mapping
Free creative practice, continuing with whichever material(s) called to you most
Closing reflection and optional sharing
What You Walk Away With
Participants leave with firsthand experience of several materials and a clearer sense of what feels natural, energizing, grounding, or freeing to them.
They also come away with simple ways to begin a process-based art practice of their own, along with more trust in curiosity as a guide.
This Group Is For You If…
your group could benefit from loosening up and letting discovery lead instead of trying to get it right.
you want people to explore a few different materials and notice what feels most natural, energizing, or freeing.
your group would enjoy practicing curiosity, flexibility, and trust in their own responses.
you want a workshop that gives people permission to experiment, change course, and follow what draws them.
you are looking for an approachable way into intuitive, process-based artmaking with no art experience needed.
Connect with Jo to learn more.
