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The Art of Expression: Exploring Creative Expression through Acrylic & Mixed Media
MaryAncilla Martinez
Acrylic
Cost: $100.00
Workshop
All Skill Levels
Saturday–Saturday
Meets daily
10:00 AM–4:00 PM
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Sat, November 14, 2026
One Hour Lunch Break
11 spaces available.
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What happens when you begin a painting without knowing exactly where it will go?
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the possibilities of spontaneous creative expression through acrylic paint and mixed media. You’ll begin with simple prompts and an open approach to the canvas, allowing color, shape, texture, and imagery to develop naturally. As your painting takes shape, you’ll learn to look closely at what interests you and make intentional choices about where to take it next.
Through layering, experimentation, and observation, we’ll explore how a painting can develop from an unexpected beginning into something distinctly your own. The emphasis is on exploration, personal expression, and discovering possibilities within the painting— rather than following a prescribed image or technique. No previous painting experience is necessary. Come ready to experiment, try something
new, and see where the process leads.
Students bring their own canvas, sized 18x24 or larger, acrylic paints, palette, brushes, acrylic medium. I will provide some Mixed Media elements TBD
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About MaryAncilla Martinez
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Mary Ancilla Martinez is a visual artist with more than 27 years of professional experience making a living as an artist. Her work explores intuition, symbolism, archetypes, and the deeper stories that shape our lives. She works across traditional realism, expressive painting, and intuitive exploration.
Mary often begins even her more traditional paintings expressively, allowing intuitive marks, color, and movement to guide the early stages before developing the work further. Her intuitive paintings may remain expressive, evolve toward representation, or simply become meaningful explorations in their own right.
As an artist and teacher, Mary teaches creative intuitive expression, guiding others to trust their intuition, experiment freely, and explore what emerges without needing to know the outcome. When desired, she can help participants develop an intuitive painting toward representation, while honoring expressive and intuitive painting as complete works in their own right.
She believes art can open a doorway to deeper insight—whether experienced as intuition, the higher self, Source, or a knowing from within. Her work invites us to explore, listen inward, and reconnect with the power that is already there.
Instructor website: www.maryancilla.com/
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