Power of 12
I am looking forward to returning to Woodward Contemporary in San Diego to lead another workshop in the Abstraction by Design Method. Join me in this high production Workshop.
Create a cohesive body of work across twelve 12”x12” panels in this fast-paced, mixed media workshop. Designed for artists ready to push both quality and quantity. This workshop activates your creative flow through structured repetition, intuitive response, and decisive editing. Power of 12 takes you into high-production mode—where design, composition, and creative decision-making happen in real time. You’ll move through pivotal AbD processes: layering paint and paper, scraping, sanding, wetting, gluing, peeling, and sealing—cycling through these actions to build surface depth and compositional clarity.
Production Line
This workshop transforms your creative energy into momentum. You’ll move swiftly through multiple stages of development, treating your panels as a unified series while allowing space for variation and surprise.Each artist determines the orientation, sequencing, and visual relationships between the panels—establishing rhythm, contrast, and cohesion.This format of 12 panels offers a dynamic opportunity to explore multiple configurations—rows (6 over 6), stacked (3 over 4), vertical columns, diptychs, triptychs, or a full linear installation. The result is a flexible body of work that can be installed in numerous ways.
Abstraction by Design
Abstraction by Design (AbD) is a mixed media method rooted in the layered interplay of paper and paint applied directly to panel surfaces. Through simultaneous application, artists create a foundation that invites sanding, scraping, saturating, peeling, collaging, and repainting—often in repeated cycles. This tactile process encourages experimentation and embraces unpredictability. Wet and dry techniques are often used side-by-side, allowing for dynamic, textured surfaces to emerge organically.
