Creative Play Events
Workshops, Classes, Retreats + More!
Creative Play Events
Workshops, Classes, Retreats + More!
Being creative—and allowing ourselves opportunities to play—is something many of us associate with childhood. More and more though, society is recognizing the benefits of creative play for adults, and we are seeking ways to incorporate more of it into our daily lives. To help harness your creative energy, I offer a variety of creative play events—lessons, classes, workshops, parties and retreats.
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Joyful Flow | Creative Retreat Day
Experience the joyful flow that comes by releasing your inhibitions and embracing your creative energy.
Join me for this full-day creative play retreat where we will combine simple acrylic mixed media techniques and materials to create an inspiring, colourful piece to bring light, inspiration and joy into your home! The day will be sprinkled with meaningful conversation, gentle meditations, and a healthy heaping of kindness.
Participants will create a 20 x 20″ painting* using a gallery canvas, professional paints, markers, and tools. Collage and dimensional elements can be brought from home to add texture and interest. A small 5 x 5″ birch panel is also provided for additional play! *If another size is of interest, please specify in an email to me, and I will be happy to swap it out and adjust materials cost accordingly.
Duration | 9am–4pm
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water. Light lunch is served.
Price per Person | $247 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of four (4) participants to ensure adequate spacing.
Perfect for friends, siblings, parents + kids, couples, and solos. All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local only, in my studio.
Not suited to online.
Magical Mixed Media | 5-Week Class
Experience the magic that comes from releasing your inhibitions and embracing your creative energy.
Over five weeks, participants will combine simple acrylic mixed media techniques and materials to create an inspiring, colourful piece to bring light, inspiration and joy into your home! Our time together will be sprinkled with meaningful conversation, gentle meditations, and a healthy heaping of kindness.
Participants will create a 16 x 16″ painting* using a gallery canvas, professional paints, markers, and tools. Collage and dimensional elements can be created in-studio or brought from home to add texture and interest. *If another size is of interest, please specify in an email to me, and I will be happy to swap it out and adjust materials cost accordingly.
Duration | 7–8:30pm, weekly for five weeks
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $247 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of six (6) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Joyful Journaling | 5-Week Class
Join me weekly to explore the mindful, creative practice of art journaling.
Over five weeks, we will use a variety of paints and other mark making tools, collage textures, and embellishments to document our days, memories, dreams—or simply to freely create + express ourselves in our mixed media journals. Each week a new approach for tackling the blank page will be shared, and participants can choose to give it a try or do their own thing. The beauty of art journaling, is there are no rules and unlimited do-overs!
Duration | 7–8:30pm, weekly for five weeks
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $247 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of six (6) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Outside the Lines | Workshop
In this sweet 3-hour workshop, participants create 16 x 16″ whimsical acrylic paintings to hang in their home or gift to someone special.
Starting with a pre-painted black canvas, participants will illustrate a simple scene of their choice using chalk before painting inside—and outside—the lines, leaving the chalked lines untouched. Once everything is dry, the chalk is wiped away and the black lines remain, leaving a playful, colourful creation to be proud of!
NOTE: I also offer this as a special Mom + Me event for Mothers’ Day, and Dad + Me event for Fathers’ Day. Watch the Calendar for details.
Duration | Four (4) hours
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $100 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of six (6) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Darling Doodles | Workshop
There is a certain sweetness to simple illustrations—black outlines, solid colours, clean lines, geometric shapes, playful faces. Follow along as I demonstrate how to doodle borders, banners, ribbons, faces, flora + fauna, homes, buildings, lettering—all fun ways to embellish journals, posters, scrapbooks, chalkboards, greeting cards, gift tags + more!
Duration | Three (3) hours
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $100 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of eight (8) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Home Sweet Home | Creative Retreat Day
Sketch, illustrate, and paint your own house or special building—what a meaningful way to honour home.
Participants will be guided from the earliest sketch phase, through perfecting the details, inking their illustration, mixing and matching watercolours, and adding final embellishments to bring their home to life. We will use pencils, plain ol’ paper, fine black artists’ pens, watercolour paints, and heavy watercolour card stock for the masterpiece. Bring up to three colour photos of your house, printed to fill an 8.5″ x 11″ page. We will use a lightbox to trace your home, then continue to refine the sketch. You will leave with a complete watercolour portrait to keep or gift.
Duration | 9am–4pm
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water. Light lunch is served.
Price per Person | $247 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of six (6) participants to ensure adequate spacing.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local only, in my studio.
Not suited to online.
Brush Pen + Marker Calligraphy | Workshop
Have you seen how crazy popular brush pen + marker calligraphy is right now!? Learn the techniques required to develop the art of brush pen calligraphy—just what you need to send sweet notes to loved ones, embellish wedding stationery, sass up your next event, and decorate your home!
We start with warm-up drills, learn the foundation strokes to create the minuscule (lower case) alphabet, then we practice, practice, practice! Includes your very own brush pen calligraphy starter kit: practice sheets, tracing paper, marker paper, fine brush pen, large brush marker, pencil.
Duration | Three (3) hours
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $100 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of eight (8) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Watercolour Brush Lettering | Workshop
Omigosh… Have you seen how popular watercolour brush lettering is right now? Wanna learn how to create these magical works of art yourself, using simple and readily available supplies? Join us for this 3-hour workshop, where I will introduce you to the basic stokes and techniques to master this skill. We will start with pencil for a few drills (easy, peasy!), move on to brush markers, and work our way up to watercolour paints + brushes. Absolutely no experience necessary… I promise!
Duration | Three (3) hours
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $100 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of eight (8) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Whimsical Watercolours | Workshop
Watercolour paints are a fun way to incorporate a little whimsy to your art projects. Add colour to doodles + illustrations, add backgrounds to scrapbook pages, create simple florals, and even brush letter the ABCs.
Perfect for beginners, this workshop explores the medium by looking at tools (brushes, papers, paints), how to mix colours, wet and dry techniques, and various brushstrokes. We will explore techniques used for florals, brush lettering, colouring, backgrounds, and more! A wonderful introduction to watercolours. Includes a mixed media art journal to take home. Absolutely no experience necessary!
Duration | Three (3) hours
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $85 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of eight (8) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Watercolour Kindness Cards | Workshop
We are hearing more and more about the positive effects of affirmations and intentions—thoughts we carry with us throughout the day to keep us in a mindful state. Mindfulness has been proven time and time again to reduce stress, increase self-awareness, intensify our connection to higher power, heighten creativity, and provide clarity of thought.
To inspire mindfulness, many enjoy the practice of drawing a random intention card from a deck (it’s uncanny how the chosen intention is usually spot-on for your needs each day), and spending a few moments in meditation to instil that intention in your mind for the day.
Join me for this mindful workshop where we will carefully contemplate and write our own 31 unique intentions, then create our own deck of cards using watercolour paints and archival pens. All 31 cards will fit perfectly in a portable tin, so you can draw your cards anytime, anywhere, as needed. You may also choose to pass cards out to family, friends, or use them for random acts of kindness out in the world—spreading mindfulness wherever you go.
Duration | Three (3) hours
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water.
Price per Person | $85 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of eight (8) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
Vision Boards | Creative Retreat Day
Whether your dreams and goals for the year are personal or professional—or both!— vision boards are a proven way of making them happen! Our subconscious mind works in pictures, so having a clear image of what you desire—and seeing it over and over again, every day—works to increase your focus and generate feelings of desire and success.
Benefits of creating a vision board include:
1 | Creative Play! Making something by hand is an excellent way to unwind, and connect with self. Plus, it’s FUN! Pulling together your wish list for the year ahead feels like going though the Sear’s Christmas Wish Book when you were a child… Remember that feeling? So much anticipation and joy. Let’s recreate that for your vision board!
2 | Motivation! Just like having a goal weight tacked on your fridge door to keep you focussed on your diet and exercise routine, having a vision board keeps you aligned with your priorities. Seeing that beach resort vacation photo, or that “Just Do It!” word clipping, will keep you enthusiastic as you move through your day.
3 | Inspiration! Pulling together gorgeous photos, catchy words and colourful embellishments creates an opportunity for you to think big about your dreams. Go ahead, extend that vacation goal from Florida to Bali! Step out of your own way, and go for it!
In the first half of this full-day workshop, we will work through a creative thinking + writing exercise to determine what your personal and professional goals are. After lunch, we will use magazines, catalogues, art boards, tape, glue, glitter, markers, stickers, embellishments and passion to create a spectacular 2020 vision board to beautifully represent your goals and dreams for the year ahead.
Duration | 9am–4pm
Includes | All supplies. Tea, coffee, water. Light lunch + wine
Price per Person | $247 CAD + applicable taxes
Capacity | Limit of six (6) participants.
All experience levels welcome.
Location | Local, in my studio.
Online available, though prices will vary.
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