EMBRACE THE PRACTICE ™
2023 WORKSHOPS • ALL CURRENTLY ONLINE LIVE & RECORDED OR OUTDOORS ONLY

EMBRACE THE PRACTICE ™
workshops

Embrace the Practice™ -
ABOUT - The path to daily painting starts with you. This workshop is geared to simplify the process of painting every day (or almost). Learn how to loosen up, connect with your personal style and ways to stay motivated and inspired. We’ll embrace the painting process and the importance of a regular practice as a path to improving creativity and image making skills. Acrylic or oil welcome, all levels of painters are welcome, demos will be done in acrylic.

Embrace the Practice™ - WORKSHOPS (6 Different Offerings) - All levels of painters are welcome. Interested in hosting a workshop? Email me - lisadariakennedy@gmail.com

1. Embrace the Practice™ - Daily Painting Workshop The painting workshops embrace the painting process and the importance of a regular practice as a path to improving creativity and image making skills. Using acrylic or oil students will discover approaches to simplify the process of painting and ways to stay inspired and motivated. The path to daily painting starts with you. Workshops are geared to simplify the process of painting every day (or almost).  Learn how to loosen up, connect with your personal style and ways to stay motivated and inspired.Please email me if you are interested in hosting a workshop, lisadariakennedy@gmail.com
Let's start a daily painting practice together. We'll meet on Zoom together to learn the tricks and techniques to embark on a daily practice. In between the two Zoom sessions (TBA) we'll engage daily on a private Facebook Page where I'll provide individual feedback and comments and we'll create accountability for our practice. When we meet on Zoom again one week later we'll discover more techniques on how to simplify the process, create a daily ritual, and how to stick with it, and maintain momentum. Let's start a daily painting habit together. Space is limited to create a trusted cohort and allow for personalized feedback.

2. Embrace the Practice™ - The Bigger Picture Workshop This two-day intensive workshop combines demos, in-class assignments, and individual instruction to teach students the techniques to create fresh, deliberate marks on a big canvas.
3. Embrace the Practice™ - Intro to Illustration - Learn about the field of illustration and how to think and work like an illustrator. A combination of lectures, demos, critiques, and weekly assignments will all add up to one finished line art illustration. We’ll examine how to properly use photo reference, create dynamic compositions, and explore expressive and varied mark making.
4. Embrace the Practice™ - Sketchbook As a Visual Journal
This workshop embraces the practice of keeping a sketchbook, daily, or almost daily. Together we’ll draw from observation and practice using different sketchbook layouts to make an impression of the day. We’ll talk about how a sketchbook can be used as a journal to record your impressions about your daily life, trips, and events. We’ll practice visual story-telling techniques and how to make your sketchbook pages organized and appealing all while learning ways to make fast and decisive drawings. All levels welcome, demos will be in pen and marker.

5. Embrace the Practice™ - Plein Air Painting, Premier Coup/First Attempt Technique
This workshop focuses on painting the landscape using the Premier Coup Technique. We’ll put a mark down, leave it and finish the painting in one session. This technique aims to simplify the process, of seeing, color mixing, and composing, and includes pared down materials list. Through a combination of demos and in-class assignments we’ll learn approaches to create direct, energetic paintings. All levels welcome, demos will be in acrylic.
6. Embrace the Practice™ - Urban Sketching
Learn the art of Urban Sketching. Urban Sketching is the practice of sketchbook drawing on location to tell the story of our surroundings. Together we'll explore on location to observe and document the world around us. With emphasis on simplifying the process, we'll travel light, but explore a variety of mediums such as, graphite, marker, pen and watercolor while discovering tips and techniques for drawing on location. Drawing outside together we’ll capture the story of the people, places and things around us. The class meets virtually once for an overview and demo and then outdoors in person to draw together. In the case of inclement weather, we’ll have an alternate date.

2022
Nashville, TN, Warehouse 521 - tba
July 15,16,27 - Denver, CO Art Makers - details to follow
August Winslow Art Center - Bainbridge Island, WA - tba
August 21, 22, 23 ish - Santa Fe, NM - details to follow
Ann Arbor, MI - details to follow

2023
Center for the Arts Bonita Springs, FL - details to follow

2020

FULL - Jan 7,8,9 - 2020 Bonita Springs, FL

FULL - Feb 29 & March 1 - Concord Art, Concord MA

POSTPONED - March 22 - One Day Intensive - Milton, MA

POSTPONED - April 18 & 19 Ponte Verdra, FL

POSTPONED May 30 & 31 - Nashville, TN -

ONLINE - Concord Art, Concord, MA - details to follow

POSTPONED - Ann Arbor, MI - details to follow

POSTPONED Oct 10 & 11, Shreveport, LA - details to follow

Teaching Experience

College
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Assistant Professor, 2016-present
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Visiting Lecturer, 2006-2016
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Continuing Education, Assistant Professor 2011-present

Workshops
The Art Guild, Manhasset, NY, 2018
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Fort Smith, AK 2018
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 2018, 2019
Westport Island, ME, 2017
Concord Art, Concord, MA, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA, 2015, 2016, 2017
Painting Miles, Anchorlight Raleigh, NC, 2016, 2017
Downey Studios, Huntersville, NC, 2016, 2017
IS183, Stockbridge, MA, 2016
Tuscany, Italy, 2016
Warehouse 521, Nashville, TN, 2014, 2016
Bonita Springs Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, FL, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
The General Store Art Center, Unison, VA, 2015
Art Center Traverse City, Traverse City, MI, 2015
The Art School of Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA, 2015
Bolick Studio, Raleigh, NC, 2014
Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
North River Arts Society, Marshfield, MA, Painting Workshop, 2012 - 2016
The Art School of Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA, 2013, 2014
Nantucket Oil Workshops, Nantucket, MA, 2013
Freeport, ME, 2012