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Permission to Play!
Playful, Spontaneous Painting
from Within
(the Not Serious Painting class)
Tuesday, January 28-March 3, 2020
1:30-4:30pm (six weeks)
 Arapahoe Community College Community Education, Littleton, Colorado.
To register click on the link:
www.arapahoe.edu/workforce-community-programs/personal-enrichment-programs/arts-and-humanities

Please contact me if you have any questions.
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The purpose of this class is to support You in painting out of the don’t know mind--
learning to trust what is natural and limitless, being intimate with your feelings, and expressing your uncensored self. It is about Presence, curiosity, surrender, surprise, awareness and enjoying the process. I will be sharing ideas from “Point Zero: Creativity without Limits,” and “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression” by Michele Cassou. (This class is not for you if you are looking for instruction in how to paint—techniques, formulas, rules, doing it right, planning, critiquing, creating a beautiful product and having control.)
We’ll start each class by considering insights around creativity.We’ll learn to identify what thoughts are blocking us and what questions we can ask to free ourselves.
Then we'll have time to paint and I’ll be available to support individuals throughout the class as needed. We’ll close the class with a time to share our experience.
This class is about painting and drawing as a spiritual practice.I reserve the right to be eclectic, spontaneous, surprising and unpredictable.
All are welcome. No experience necessary.

About Joy
I am very excited to offer this class. My painting and drawing has completely shifted since I found Michele Cassou’s books in January, 2015, and attended a couple of workshops.  I used to have tons of unfinished paintings and lots of resistance. Now I am always excited to paint or draw. I have spent the last year drawing and painting freely and so enjoying it.
I have also been deeply effected by The Work of Byron Katie and have used drawing and painting to express my feelings and emotions over the past year. “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action” and “The Zen of Seeing”  by Frederick Franck have also influenced me deeply.

I taught painting and drawing to adults for ten years at my home and through community education in a pretty conventional way. This new way of painting is now my passion. It is out of my enthusiasm and gratitude for my new experience that I am moved to share and support others. I have also been a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie since 2013, and I appreciate this experience of painting, inquiry, and meditation as one.
As Michele Cassou puts it: “ It is the basic tenet of this book that the creative process is enough. It is not only enough, it is a doorway into a direct experience of the essential life force which is at the root of the urge to create art. It is the process itself—in the creative energy it releases, in the new perception it brings, and in the deepened connection with oneself it fosters—that is at the heart of the desire to paint. To make this the whole point of painting is a simple yet radical act.”

Recommended Reading: 
Optional, but highly recommended: “Questions to Awaken Your Creative Power to the Fullest”, Michele Cassou. This fabulous little book is laminated and spiral bound which makes it easy to keep handy while you paint. Available at http://www.michelecassou.com/booktapes.htm
Both of the two books mentioned above are also wonderful(Amazon)

Supply list for Playful, Spontaneous Painting
​from Within

MATERIALS
“The painting process is not tied to certain materials.
Many different types of paint will work. What is important is
HOW you do it.

I like to use easy-to-spread quick drying paint. Tempera paints lend
themselves well to the painting process. They are not costly and can free you of the fear of wasting precious materials…Any other paints will work as long as they allow you to be spontaneous and to paint as fast as you need. If you are already used to other paints, you can keep using them, thought it could be an interesting experiment to try
tempera for a while to see if it affects your inspiration.” 
Michele Cassou

PAINTS
GOOD QUALITY TEMPERA PAINTS--PROART IS AVAILABLE AT GUIRY'S and highly recommended.
(I cannot emphasize this enough--you will be frustrated with other paints. Do not buy "washable".) AND please OPEN your paints prior to attending class just in case there is any air pressure. I would do this in a sink.
You need at least six basic colors to get started: white, red, blue, green, yellow and black. 
You can mix these to make more. If you want to buy six more colors, you can get orange, brown, violet, peach, turquoise, and magenta.
  
PAPER:
Vellum Bristol 157lb 19x24 (or something close) for painting.
Corrogated cardboard or some kind of board LARGER than your paper that you can tape your paper to.
Paper for sketching and drawing--at least 8.5x11. Copy paper is fine if you prefer. Just make sure you have something firm like a clipboard to hold the paper.

BRUSHES
“A good brush will respond as if it were an extension of your hand.
Investing in a few high-quality brushes will reward you many times over in the kind of painting experience you have…
The teardrop-shaped brush (known as a “round”) is 
very practical because it holds a lot of paint and water, and can make fine or broad strokes. Excellent brushes for tempera are made of squirrel hair. 
Loew-Cornell standard quality synthetic brushes also work well.
(#6,#10,#14, 7000 series round) as well as 
Loew Cornell 7350-1 liner(less expensive)
Of course you can use any other watercolor brush that will hold 
enough paint and will follow your gesture well.
Two or three brushes of various sizes are all you need.

It is also good to have a few inexpensive flat, hard brushes for those time when you need to use more pressure and do not want to be careful with soft brushes.”
Michele Cassou

PLASTIC DROP CLOTH 
Ziploc extra small square containers--
comes in packages of 8 at the grocery store. (Two packages)
Container to hold the Ziploc containers
Small plastic palette (plate ok)
Plastic knife to scoop paint out of containers.
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2 large water containers (no cups--they spill too easily, yogurt containers work well)
rag, paper towels, sponge(nothing special)
notebook and pen (to take notes)
No. 2 drawing pencil, 
1 jumbo soft vine charcoal,
masking tape
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Questions? 
Please email me at joywschultz@comcast.net 

"You don't have to be perfect." India Ink. Joy Schultz

 
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Point Zero: Creativity Without Limits by Michelle Cassou.

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Also by Michelle Cassou...

I can't recommend this book highly enough.  Life, Paint and Passion--Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression by Michele Cassou and Stewart Cubley. This book is all about the inner process of painting...the painting experience rather than focusing on the product. I LOVE this!!!  

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Tempera paints in Ziploc containers really supports freedom in painting

"Friendly Universe" 19x24, Tempera, Joy Schultz c2016

"What's for dinner, mom?" 19x24, Tempera, Joy Schultz c2016

"There is another way of looking at the world." 19x24, Mixed Media, Joy Schultz c2016

You can view more of my art on the store page. 

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