Pattern to Painting: Discover Your Design

We’ll start by covering a 12″ x 12″ canvas with colorful patterns, lines, shapes, and marks. There’s no need to overthink it — this part is all about experimenting and having fun.

Once your background is finished, you’ll choose a design to work with. You can use one of the templates I provide, or draw your own design.

Then comes the fun part: instead of painting your design, you’ll paint around it. By filling in the negative space, your design begins to emerge from the patterned background, creating a bold and unexpected finished painting.

Along the way, we’ll play with color and pattern, lines, shapes, and repeated marks, choosing a design that works with your background, negative space and contrast, creating a strong, contemporary composition.

No painting or drawing experience is needed. I’ll guide you through each step, and you’ll have plenty of room to make the painting your own.

You’ll leave with a finished 12″ x 12″ original painting and a fun new approach to creating art through pattern, design, and negative space.

Come play with pattern. Choose your design. Paint the space around it. Have FUN and make new friends!

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