When I got to college and decided to major in art I was more than ready to explore new ways to get creative. I had spent many years feeling pressure to make art that looked pretty and perfect and was anxious to learn different methods and techniques that could set me free and release that "pressure" to be perfect. During my college experience, I found myself gravitating towards projects and classes that had more to do with abstraction and expression and less to do with realism and perfection. And once I got the taste of how drawing and painting felt when it was expressive, emotional, wild, free, and came from your gut- I was hooked! While these methods were just a few (of many) in my arts education, they seemed to be the ones that really stuck and ended up creating a foundation for my creative process and my art.
These days, while I love making beautiful and refined art and crafts, I also find myself returning to abstraction when I need to just let go and be free. Using methods and techniques that are expressive and abstract has enabled me to understand how to use my experiences and my emotions to make art. This process has helped me loosen up and let go of perfection in all of the art that I make. In my next online class, I am thrilled to share this process with you!
The Art of Abstraction will introduce you to the concept of making abstract and expressive art. I will share a variety of methods, techniques and prompts that will inspire you to find your voice and your unique style. I will challenge you to a new way of seeing and teach you fresh ways to make art with all kinds of alternative tools and methods. We will throw images, perfection, pressure and creative trends out the window and instead- make art with our emotions and with our gut! We will channel our individual experiences and STOP over thinking the creative process.
Join me for the Art of Abstraction!
To register and for all of the details and additional workshop facts head on over to my online shop!
In addition to launching registration today, I am also giving away FIVE FREE spots in the class!
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Tell me what color represents your mood today!
I will draw 5 names later this week
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 378 of 378well..I am not sure..the sky is a brilliant blue, but it is so cold the water froze, I have been sick, and down in the dumps..so maybe a deep purple..not quite fully blue..but a bit of fire in there yet!
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My color today is buttery yellow.
The first colour that popped into my head was orange.
This class looks awesome!
My mood is PINK today!
Today I`m feeling dark purple, with a headace and a runny nose.
My color for today would be Lemon - I am feely bright, cheery and opitmistic (for a Monday!) ox, Mary Ann
Wow! I love this way to express art! This morning I was yellow, but now that is late afternoon I'm going to be turquoise! Thanks a lot for this great opportunity!
Have a nice easter holiday!
I am always orange...perfect blend of fiery and joyful. I love your classes Alisa. Thanks for the chance to win.
I'm so excited! I love your classes and look forward to this one-- so different!
Actually, there are TWO colors today that represent my mood: Orange and Pink. I'm happy that Spring is here in the northeast and orange and pink represent that wonderful spring air smell!
I'm feeling green today-,not with envy. I look outside and everything is new again and shades of green always make me happy.
I am thinking of red today! Can't wait, love your classes!
I am in a yellow mood today! Enjoying this beautiful springtime weather. I am so excited about the new class!
hey alisa!
the color that most represents my mood today is gray. I am very content :)
i love all your art!! You are very inspiring to me!!
xo kelsey rae.
I'm thinking of deep yellow cadmium - the colour of blooming gorse (ulex europaeus) that are all around in the cliffs in Normandie/France, where I was last year at that time. And it was such a beautiful contrast to the deep dark warm blue of the atlantic ocean. Now I'm in Finland and it still snows, so all I see is shades of grey, beautiful as well, in another kind. Thanks a lot for your inspiring blog, I really love it.
I would say I'm orange today. Not firey red with stress, but not quite sunny and wonderful yellow.
Thanks for a chance to win a spot in your amazing class!
That class looks fun!
Let's see...I think I'm having a Blue kind of day. I'm a little sick and chilly, so--blue could describe my lips. I'm also really missing CA right now, the ocean in particular, so various shades of icy blue, bluish green, dark blues are in there too. Only blue I'm not feeling is the sad kind. :)
For me it's the pink for spring. nice sunny day in canada it's just a beautiful day in my life. Hope you have a nice one just like me.
My color today is orange. I inspired by moroccan design, with a touch of spring fever! I would love to be able to combine some designs that I am playing with into a new abstract design. Love the opportunities that you provide!
Today is a yellow day since the sunshine has emerged from the dark, wet, clouds of March! Can you say OREGON?! It's good that you're from here, since you know you'll be needing quality rain gear to survive! ;)
Carmine! Today was our first moving day of many! A very stressful, crazy but also optimistic kind of day!
Katie x
Chartreuse for sure. All the leaves on the tress in Ohio are budding this color and ready to pop open after the very mild weather we've had. Would LOVE the chance to win this course.
Today.. I'm blue. I'm not having a good day.
My color for the day is green. Warmer temps have inspired me to do some gardening.
Judi
I fell quite Aqua today - just took a morning stroll on the Gulf of Mexico, and saw a manatee slowly swimming by. The water is a perfect, clear shade of aqua, and it always makes me feel alive.
I'd love to take your class! I have to go with a combination color --pink and orange today--I don't really like pink on it's own, unless it's very bright. I sure love it when paired with orange.
I am red today. I am super duper inspired, and combining vibrant colors in my collages. Red is my favorite pop color today. :-) Loving these beautiful abstractions <3
Wow! This class sounds exactly like something I've been hungering for!
Today I feel orange - full of energy and juggling ideas around.
Red - bold, excited, and passionate about my life!
Bright yellow! Wonderful sunny day, and art work to be made1
Red... I'm on fire to get things done today!!
I'm feeling yellow: a good to go color awaiting easter, it is the color of my favorite flower (daffodil) and a little bit stressy because of my mother in law's hospitalization... I loved reading all the comments and the online workshop looks yummy (red, teal and black/white kind of mood... ;-))
Hedwig
My mood today can be described by the color turquoise. I live in Connecticut and although the weather is improving I am dreaming of the water and the beaches of the Caribbean Sea. I can't help but feel warm when I think of that gorgeous color of the water there.
I'm feeling azure today
I'm a dark radiant yellow green for the color of trees in warm rain. (which we need more of in Texas)
Your new class looks great! I'm feeling a mix of purples today.
My color for today is a peachy/pink - a bright and cheerful color. Can't wait to see what your new class will be like!
Oh, this is so exciting! I love giveaways! My mood color is honeysuckle...because it's a cheery day and I love me some pink.
Thanks for the giveaway fun!
Workshop sounds wonderful...how exciting!
Today I am feeling blue...it's Monday so I am easing in to the day after a great restful weekend.
A sleepy blue. I could go for a rainy day and a nap right now.
Chartreuse... happy , content yet calm.
Mauve- not gray, but not full blown purple, it is a Monday.
What a great class!!! I would really love to win this!! That would be the first time ever to win :-)
I would color my mood peache! I love peache.. It's sunny, and warm, positive and feminine.. my mood is most of the times something with yellow in in... It's such a happy and positive color, I love it!
But what to to with these pretty colors? I would love to take your class!!
(Sorry for my poor englisch, I am dutch :-))
Really excited that you are offering another class! Today I am feeling bright turquoise! Lately bright colors are just making me so happy!
Oh this class sounds so fun. I love the painting over your bed, but don't even know where to start to do something like that.
I'm feeling a bit green today...had dental work and not feeling so great at the moment.
my mood today was purple.I had a stressful beginning, an exciting afternoon, and a calm evening and it slowly turned to violet now, before going to bed. :)
I really miss being creative. Sometimes I wish I was still at college being free to create in my sketchbook. Don't seem to have the creative spirit at the moment!
I would have to say pea green. The light was so beautiful on the hills today, its own unique pea green. I think tomorrow will be white, snow is forecast after a couple weeks of gorgeous sunshine!
Sound like fun and freeing. The mood I am feeling today is pink because I feeling loving and calm which I am trying to grasp each day in my life. It not easy but its what I am trying to do going with the flow with life. thanks
adal
Oh this is FANTASTIC! I LOVE Abstract Art! I find it more engaging than figurative because it makes me think differently.
Hmm today's mood would be a bright yellow for generally content and curious. Thanks for the opportunity!
Just signed up for your new abstract class. Funny you should ask about color as everything is popping up aqua in my life today(painting everything in sight aqua for spring) and fuschia (dianthus and azaleas are blooming in Georgia)
Yay! My mood today is green. Thanks for your generous giveaway!
Monica
I'm all about PINK today. Shared it on my blog.
http://e14studio.blogspot.com
What an amazing class! Your description really spoke to me! My color today? Green- full of spring and the energy of the season.
Woot! Thanks for the chance to win. I am Cerulean Blue. It reminds me of the color between the snow, the water and the sky which I haven't seen in the past view days. It is a tranquil color which is what I am feeling today. :)
I am definitely feeling fresh & GREEN today. Spring has sprung.....my garden is growing....and the sun is warm. Can't wait for this class!!!!! I have always been fascinated by abstract works, but have never had the oppurtunity to try it.
Thanks for sharing your time, talents, and treasures with us.
Shona brooks
I guess I need to put down a color-
Lime green, that's it, a spring lime green day,
Shona brooks
I'm feeling turquoise-y today. Perhaps because I just read your post and that's the color that stuck with me. Or perhaps I've just had a bright and cheerful day. Spring has brought the sun and with it picnic weather.
I would love to win a spot to gift my friend with. We're doing the drawing lab together and she's realizing that she's leaning toward the abstract in virtually all her labs. Fun :)
This class looks so fabulous!!!
I am green today . . . feeling peaceful and calm because it's spring break with my three kiddos! : )
I am thinking very blue. I always feel this way after coming back from visiting my family. I miss being with them. Thanks for the chance.
Feeling crimson today- dark and rich and full of iron.
Today I'm orange with excitement! The snow is almost gone and spring is starting to spring up literally!
I would say that my color is usually red, nice bright and vibrant! Full of energy and ready to go.
Can't wait to see what you have instore in this class.
Today I'm feel a vibrant blue color. Kind of like aquamarine blue with a hint of white. It's a good day today. :)
Today I am a pale yellow - feeling content and calm, but not overly bright. Thanks for the chance to win!
I am sparkly yellow with flashes of red (very excited over some things!)
I'm feeling green today, fresh and new... all because I just finished the last job on my spring cleaning list!
And your class discription really grabbed me. 4 years of art school and I'm still terrified of going abstract.
Thank you! This is a great opportunity. I'm feeling red today. Love red. A bit on fire and somewhat edgy. So much to do and not focusing very well. Like the flickering dancing flames.
Also wishing you wonderfulness on your journey to Oregon.
Grey now but black earlier because of headache most of day and dizziness due to inner ear problem. Now spring is here hopefully a cheerful yellow from now on.
I feel cotton candy pink today, which is strange because I don't even like pink. I think the great weather has me happy and full of life.
This class sounds really interesting and a lot of fun.
Orange is my color most days! I'm excited about your new class! Yah!
OOOOOOOOOOOO I am sunny yellow today, starting a new job, releasing some guilt, life is great!
ANg
Very excited for the new class! Thank you for the chance to win a spot. I would say that I'm feeling yellow - sunny and happy, since it's my birthday. :)
Feeling hot pink, sassy yet sweet. HA HA! Yippee! Another class! Hope to win a spot!
Lots of GREEN today from the crispness of the green prairies here in Oklahoma to the treasured moments of green markers making monsters with my grandson!
Looks like another fun class :)
Today I feel blue, not like sad blue, but cute baby boy blue. Took care of the two cutest boys in the pediatric intensive care unit at work today...
Ktmcd@yahoo.com
I'll go with pink. Lots of spring projects in the works.
I would love to win your class!! I am feeling a little blue today :(...not feeling to good..been in bed all day. I hate to be sick..:(
I'm feeling shocking pink :) happy n sunny today...
before we go to sleep I always ask my husband what his color is and we close our eyes see what color pops into our mind. I'm shades of lavender and coral tonight. His is dark teal.
I am feeling two colors, crimson and blue right now. I cheering the KU Jayhawks right now.
Rock chalk Jayhawk!
I spent today at the upholsterer looking at fabrics that were celadon, so I guess that's my mood for the day:))
Ooh love the ideas behind your new online class!
I have been blue all day with my tired achey body! As the day went on I went up to watch a baseball game so it definitely turned to a brighter hue of blue!
green cause I'm growing artistically.
Interesting question... Considering it is early morning now I feel turquoise. I guess I desperately need some spring to come!
Nataliya
this class looks amazing!
today has been a blue day...quite an emotional rollercoaster...dark navy gray blue...now working toward a calm turquoise.
thanks for the chance to win!!
love it. hmmm perhaps coral? today was a significantly fresh starts and nothing screams spring, birth, and renewal to me like soft coral right now.
I am maroon, grey and white. It is snowing here and I am hoping that the fuirt blossoms don't freeze. Would love to take your class and stretch out of my comfort zone.
Have to say my color today is black with shades of grey and blue. Unusual for me. Am also feeling very abstract so your offer appeals to me.
Ugh, Im grey today. Neck is hurting bad. Dr. tomorrow.
I'm in the Pollen Yellow Green Mood today!Especially since I did yard work all day and was covered in it! lol! And I could sure use some relaxing free spirited abstract painting,and just let my brushes fly!
Apple Green, it's Autumn in New Zealand and the air is turning crisp.
Who Doesn't Love A Giveaway and a Giveaway Frm Alisa..??.
Today I'm Feeling Very Green, Very Alive and Giving...
I've Been Following For a Few Months Now Ever Since I Was Pregnant..My Daughter us About 2Months Older Than Lucy..
White.
I am dealing with very frustating days. I am teaching myself art. These days I dont like whatever I paint.
U are a big inspiration Alisa. Whenever I am stuck in such a phase I read your blog posts and watch your videos. Thanks.
I'm yellow today.
Your class looks very interesting!
Have a nice day!
I am Purple Right Now - feeling spiritual.
HOlly Eva.
Definitely a deep blue.
I would love this class! I have a hard time being loose or abstract with my art, so this class would be great! My mood is pastel blue, I feel relaxed and in an early Easter mood :0)
I would love this class! I have a hard time being loose or abstract with my art, so this class would be great! My mood is pastel blue, I feel relaxed and in an early Easter mood :0)
I feel yellow today. Happy Happy happy :-)
Apple Green, it's Autumn in New Zealand and the air is turning crisp.
Lavender blue dillydillysilly.
I would say reddish orange - feeling stressed over all that I have to do in the coming weeks. I think it's really interesting to see how the same color can mean completely opposite things to people based on what they associate it with.
Sounds like another amazing class! My 9 year old daughter is a budding artist so I love these classes as something we can do together! :) Thanks for offering them!
Today I am orange - to me it is a happy color and I just had my birthday on the 1st and was on a very relaxing cruise at the time!
There were many, many pieces of abstract art throughout the ship!
Thanks for the opportunity to win the spot. My colour is deep yellow cadmium as the blooming gorse in cliffs of Normandie/France, such a beautiful contrast to the dark warm blue of the atlantic ocean.
My mood today = Green, Yellow & Red...the colors on the radar this morning as a huge thunderstorm is rolling through town. LOVE it! :)
Shelly Reinhard
ooooh this looks too cool... I would love the opportunity to join you.
Cadmium Yellow light! Full of energy, happy, and excited to see where the day takes me. The coffee is probably helping!
Thanks for the give away. I have been wanting to take one of your classes for awhile now.
Cheers,
Jaime
Royal blue. Kind of in a serious focused mood.
Smiles, andra
I am thinking of Aqua blue. I love your classes.
Wow, wow, if I win it would be so amazing and perfect because this is the classes I've been looking for. So even if I don't win, I STILL WIN.
THANKS ALISA!!!!!!
Susan
BLUE!! The color of spring skies, so refreshing after the dull gray skies of winter!
Yellow and pink for sure. Love the last class of yours I took. Fingers crossed I'm one of the five.
My mood is purple: calm and contemplative.
Today's color is blue ...
Exciting opportunity for a new class, I look forward to!
Today's color is blue ...
Exciting opportunity for a new class, I look forward to!
Today I am green. Not a dark green, but a LIME green. Spring is in the air and it makes me feel alive ane free and happy.
The color green fits my mood today .. just finished a hike around in the forest around a pond ..the mossy tree trunks, greenish-blue water and the lovely mallard ducks. I'm crossing my fingers and toes ... I love everything you create!
this looks wonderful. i'm definitly in a morning sunrise kinda mood... all orangey-yellows.
x0x
Oh, what a treat! I'd love to win a spot :-) My colour today would be a wonderful soft cherryblossom pink, rpresenting warm spring days for me, I'd love to enjoy at the moment!
I'm yellow with a tinge of green just like all the shooting things around me
I am feeling fuscia. I want to be cool but I've got some red going on from battling with my toddler and nap time.
Hmm, today would be a murky color, like a burnt orange. That's proably because I am at work. Colors are definitely brighter at the end of the day!
hmm...today i feel like blue with shades of grey...
Sounds like this is a class for me! I am so worried about doing it right that i dont do it at all! Afraid to fail i guess!
Teal blue. Not really sad, but waiting with optimism for things to get better.
today l am feeling very colourful and so it would have to be bright and shiny. So it would have to be sunshine yellow. I have just start messy and sensery art classes for 4mth to 8mth old babies..today was my first class. It was soooo much later l am still smiling!xxhours fun ..6
Red is my color today :)
Thanks for the giveaway.
I've been in a RED mood...not my usual color. This class looks to be fun and freeing
Mmmm thinking. A colour? Chartreuse it is then - my favourite colour because I'm feeling okay today.
Since I have on an orange blouse and a yellow tank top I will go with those two colors--happy for a gorgeous spring in my lovely city!
Yellow today! Bright and cheeri like the SUN!
Look like fun!
I think I am a kinda turquoise blue green today. It reminds me of Greece and travel and well, darn it, its just pretty!
I am mainly magenta and turquoise today...
Today I am definitely RED. Bills paid ... blog written... mom doing better. It's time for strength, confidence and challenges for tomorrow. bring it.
Today I feel like canary yellow! So very happy! It's Spring Break for my oldest daughter so my youngest daughter, oldest daughter, and I spent the day painting, drawing, and crafting together. When I was putting my girls to sleep tonight, they both thanked me for "the best day ever" as they called it. Just melted my heart and made me one happy mamma!
Thanks for the opportunity to win a spot in this awesome class. So generous.
Take care and hope you too had a good day!
Shauna
Hello all the way from India! I am feeling very light yellow cos that is what I am wearing for summer today! I love your techniques of making something out of nothing and would love to win a spot in this class.
Looks to be an incredible class! Wishing you a beautiful Easter Alisa! Warmest wishes and so happy about your move! Will miss you though. Warmest regards!
I am yellow today!!! Happy, hopeful, and oh so thankful :)
sounds like fun! I'm feeling chartreuse today - bright yellow-green because I feel a little sick but a little sunny & motivated too.
I'm the animated buzz of a tuned out tv station and would love to reconnect to the fine arts with your class.
Hello! Today I am feeling blue like the ocean. Maybe it's because I am PA to SC tomorrow for some beachy relaxation. And to start a new sketchbook with the beach as my muse. Cannot wait! Thank you
The class sounds cool, thanks for the opportunity of winning a spot.
My colour today would be indigo, sort of introspective, still & thoughtful.
Wow! What an incredible giveaway .. Thanks so much for the chance, Alisa! Oh ya, I'm feeling quite oranges today.
Wow! What a fantastic giveaway ... thanks so much for the chance, Alisa! I'll have to say that I'm feeling quite orangey today!
OOps! Sorry Alisa ... My comment is showing up twice ... please ignore one of them (and then this one) when it comes to tally up the results. So sorry :-(
Hey Alisa, had written to you earlier about your classes, but didn't hear back from you. Wish I'd get lucky here :D
The mood all day has been blue, it has been blue for a while now as m feeling low - but right now I am little pepped by your contest, so it's more into my favourite shade of blue - aqua :)
Hope you have awesome classes!!
Love your blog btw :D
-Swaathi
Gray- I've been feeling bad with a migraine that's lasted 4 days now!
Thin black stripes on canvas.
Sounds like a very exciting course. Thanks for always coming up with new stuff.
Your new class looks like a lovely way to let go and and lean into a new artistic space :)
Feeling a bit chartreuse today -- vibrant and slightly acerbic!
Bright sun shining ORANGE because I am off work today and it is beautiful outside :) CANNOT wait for your class in June....it will be my first! Thanks for the chance to win your class!!
I'm feeling very chartreuse today...warm and bright but slightly understated.
I'm feeling very chartreuse today...warm and bright but slightly understated.
today is a stripes and plaids kind of day.
Even though the weather here in Iceland is cold and wet, and summer seems far away i am feeling happy and energetic! So i'de say orange describes that perfectly:)
Feeling Blue today. Truly.....
sounds like a very fun class! :D
well the color that represents my mood today is yellow! :)
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Would love to win! :) My color today would be chocolate brown - it reminds me of my warm fuzzy blanket. I was so sleepy today (running on empty here!), that I longed to wrap up in my blanket. :)
I am feeling peach today...which to me is a pensive color. Lots of thinking today.
Have been wanting to try some abstract art and you make it sound exciting! Color of the day is defnitely turquoise....happiness with a twist! Love your art and your blog!
Wow, over 300 comments! I hope I'm one of the lucky names drawn!
My color mood today - PINK! I started a new job on Monday and everything is falling into place. I love my new job, and the people I work with.
I'm feeling happy today - a sunny bright yellow!
I'm so glad I found your blog. I haven't done many art projects since high school. I miss it a lot and I feel so energized and excited as a I look around your site. Thanks for the inspiration. My mood today: aqua blue- it's been fairly calm and peaceful. Looks like a way fun class.
I would be tickled pink to win a spot in your class! I was feeling over the hump day yellow until I got home and found that someone had broken in. Now it's kinda dark creepy blue. Fortunately I have my fierce cat Shadow to protect me ... from under the bed.
This sounds like a great class. I feel mellow yellow today. Paula
i'm feeling orange - its the beginning of autumn here in australia, and i'm nesting :)
jo.marks@bigpond.com
hy, m always 2 colors,orange and fushya,green and aubergine,m egyptian but i find myself in the indian combination of colors,luv ur style.
I feel mustard yellow, not as happy as banana yellow but close!
My mood is blue, verging on yellow!
I've had a lot of sadness in my life recently but I want to to see the bright sunshine in my mind.
That's abstraction, innit? ;o)
Blue... would have to say blue.
I recently had a miscarriage and found out my husband is having an affair all in the same week. My family of soon to be 4 is now a family of 2.
I can't wait for rainbows...
I must be muddy color today - in the space of two days I found out about 2 large and major creative projects (an engagement ring, and a very large textile/mixed media/bead embroidered wall hanging)that I have to complete before the end of summer! I'm stressed and excited at the same time!
I am yellow Ochre, bright and clear trying to shine through the muddy noise of my mind today. I am waiting for something important that is going to launch many life changing events. excited....but waiting!
Turqoise blue today... clean, bright, fresh, happy.
xo
Gaye
Palest, clearest aquamarine. Just the color of the sandy areas we sail over between coral patches down here off Key West. That color makes me feel so peaceful, calm and happy which is just how I feel today! Wish I were sailing!!!
Definitely yellow. Bright, sunny, cheerful yellow. Today I made a book cleaned my studio. I feel good.
I'd have to be peachy orange. Hopeful but worried about my daughters meical checkup.
I am colourless, vacant, because today my love flew away....
I am going to sign up too! My colour today happens to be "vivid orange" or red/orange. It just happens to be the colour I am working with today! The landscape here is white and rather greyscale so I love vibrant colour to give me that warm feeling that I am craving!
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