by iDvlpr Marketing | Mar 3, 2020 | Articles
We’re happy to offer the following guest post by Diana Pop, who recently attended a Painting Experience workshop at Esalen and shared this wonderful description of her time in the studio. For the longest time, I painted all wrong. I started pieces with specific end...
by iDvlpr Marketing | Apr 23, 2019 | Articles
It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been posting to Facebook for The Painting Experience for almost eleven years. We have a large number of Facebook followers — about 64,000 — but because of the way its algorithms work, Facebook shows each of our...
by iDvlpr Marketing | Feb 10, 2019 | Articles
We receive some great, provocative questions about painting for process rather than product and we’d like to occasionally share them on this blog. We’ll start with a question a painter recently sent to Stewart about “following the energy” and...
by iDvlpr Marketing | Sep 8, 2018 | Articles
After so many years of painting, somehow it really hit me that from the moment we start a painting, impermanence starts, too. I began painting with The Painting Experience in the mid-1980s. After that, I started a meditation practice, studying Buddhist principles and...
by iDvlpr Marketing | Feb 20, 2018 | Articles
After creating a safe and spacious environment, working with energy is a facilitator’s primary tool. The energy determines how you move within that space — for example, the questions you might ask and the suggestions you might offer to a painter. ~ Stewart...