With Scissors, Glue, and a Splattering of Paint

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The Radiant Dream: A Creativity Workshop

I’m excited to announce that on Friday, May 12, I’m teaming up with my colleague Anne Vivian, a counselor and coach at Creative Psyche Studio. Together we’re leading The Radiant Dream: Supercharge your creativity and nourish your soul through art and poetic writing.

We’re bringing it all together: dreams, collage, drawing, and expressive writing. You don’t need to consider yourself an artist or a writer and you don’t need to remember your dreams to participate! This will be a fun, meaningful, and joyfully chaotic creative experience. Join us!

Tzivia Gover and Anne Vivian

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A dreamer walks into an art studio

I guess I just needed more fun and color on a drab April afternoon. So I signed up for an art class, even though I can’t draw and I don’t have much experience – not since kindergarten anyway – using paints.

As soon as I entered the former factory building, now an art studio, where the class would be held, I felt my heart lift inside my chest. The hallway was a merry cacophony of funky sculptures made of discarded metal objects, colorful paintings, and an arrow pointing up the stairs to the space where the drop-in art class was taking place.

I was the only new student, and the others were confidently donning smocks and selecting paints and brushes. I was overwhelmed by the cornucopia of supplies: jars of brushes in all sizes, tubs of glue, stacks of canvases, stencils, chopsticks for dripping and swirling paint …

The teacher kindly oriented me to the space and said I could make anything I wanted.

“I usually just make collages,” I told her, eyeing the paints suspiciously.

“But you’re here to try something different, yes?” she asked.

She encouraged me to spread some paint on a canvas and move it around with a squeegee or foam roller. She suggested I splatter some colors around and watch for a shape that might inspire a painting to emerge.

I tried each technique she offered, then tentatively started pulling images out of piles of cast-off books, calendars, and magazines — and I settled in with scissors and glue.

A little while later the teacher returned to check on me. “I see you’re back to collage,” she told me with a smile.

Well, yes. But I had also played with some paint and arrived back home with a rainbow-mess of color caked beneath my fingernails and smudged across my clothes to prove it. I felt like a successful artist!

This post is by Tzivia Gover, author of Dreaming on the Page: Tap into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing.

Copyright 2023 Tzivia Gover, all rights reserved.

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