Workshop for Adults

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Drawing the Buddha

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Workshop for Adults 〰️ Drawing the Buddha 〰️

March Workshop for Adults

Drawing the Buddha

Draw the Buddha step by step using a traditional Tibetan Grid. Leave feeling grounded, focused and ready for the week ahead.

View fullsize Today we red The Lovables that remind the children how lovable they are and then used old school transfer paper to draw birds, carefully listening to step by step instructions and planning our compositions. These children don’t get enough credi
View fullsize This group of children asked me if we could make dream catchers and I had no idea how to even make them but of course we would figure it out. Reading about the tradition of dream catchers I learned about Grandmother Spider in various Native American
View fullsize Our Wednesday class was all about celebrating mothers. The children chose breakfast in bed on a tray or dinner on a table which I didn’t want to post earlier to keep the surprise. Flower arrangements were a must and some made them their first,
View fullsize The Joy of teaching energy through the arts, of seeing children’s reflect, articulate and express. We’ve had some real emotional moments during our Monday class because these kids say it how it is and aren’t afraid to bring in real
View fullsize I have been enjoying the results of offering more freedom to the children as they figure out original ways to work with the materials and the few prompts that I give them. We worked on connecting many layers of work. There was tracing of animals, cut
View fullsize We are almost there with our book of emotions. Binding the pages together is next and then allowing them to realize the importance of what they have done. I love working on longer projects with this Monday group. #kidsart #kidsartclasses #connectcre
View fullsize It’s a rainy day today so we took the farm indoors. As the children came in, there were farm sounds coming from the speakers and this made them laugh. Where is the cow? What if we had a cow in our art class? None of them wanted any fences for t
View fullsize I have so much gratitude for my Reiki Master @pauseinjoywithpatti who put up with me and took me as her student 11 years ago in LA. Thank you Patti for guiding me on this life and many lives past, for being with me through thick and thin, and thank y
View fullsize Diptychs day! Today we meditated visualizing our breathing in front of a mirror. When breathing in we could see our face neatly but when exhaling the mirror got foggy and our image blurry. We worked on the idea of connecting two paintings that are n
View fullsize Our books of Emotions are almost finished. I love to see the consistency of their styles, expression and design. Today anger was a prevalent emotion again since the children don’t work in the same one every class. They expressed the frustration
View fullsize Earth Day with the youngest group. We talked and played animals and humans and made art about the earth, water, and some animal friends. A flower with anthems , a butterfly, and a horse and a cow laying right on top of each other. #kidsart #kidsartcl
View fullsize Today we practiced a fun drawing exercise and the children got to draw to The 4 Seasons with their eyes closed. They really enjoyed the freedom of just feeling the music and letting the pencil be an extension of their body. After that we worked on co
View fullsize Some things that came up today in our emotions book making class were the children’s feeling of anxiety and fear when not being in control, and the feeling of being grateful associated with happiness. For one child feeling anxious about not be
View fullsize Our Saturday class for the little ones is for making toys that they can play with. These are the gnomes’ garden, forest and magic carpet that they each designed. We also spent time organizing a house, choosing where each gnome bed would go, fil
View fullsize Beach time is around the corner. Working with the youngest is mostly silent and model based. They observe, they smile, they copy, they giggle and ask questions but more than anything they are present and all their energy is in the moment. Creating an
View fullsize “I am walking in a meadow and I see that I am not anything but a flower”. “This is a pond in the sunset, there is a blue ocean and purple water”. “This flower represents that all flowers can grow and nothing can die&rdqu
View fullsize Sometimes I feel fear. “This is my fear monster, he lives in the fire alarm at school”. Today the children expressed how much fear they feel in their bodies every time that there is a drill at school. What is scariest for the children is
View fullsize Lighthouse Buddha. Pencil, Sumi ink, gouache and acrylic on wood. 30 x 38”#lightthehouse #bethelighthouse #buddhadrawing #thangkapainting #buddhasofinstagram #tibetanart #sumiink #mirrorestmirror #griddrawing #pialeighton
View fullsize The younger group of 4 year olds was a delight to create and play with today. I got to know them by playing with some creatures in the wooden house and then we met a hungry mouse who was wondering around. Sadly for the mouse the owners of the house w
View fullsize We went swimming in the water in another form today. Deep underwater, feeling the softness of the water against our skin. Some of the kids were dolphins, turtles and penguins. We saw another big animal swimming next to us, it was our dear mama. The