Intuitive Painting Workshop: Techniques, Prompts and Inspiration for a Year of Painting

Intuitive Painting Workshop is available as a digital PDF download. After purchase, you can access the file instantly through your account and download it right away.

This workshop-style book by Alena Hennessy offers techniques and prompts designed to guide your painting practice across a full year. It also includes examples from contributing artists for monthly lessons.

The focus stays on creating with intuition, developing your own mark-making, and moving through common stages of the creative process.

Book Overview

Intuitive Painting Workshop: Techniques, Prompts and Inspiration for a Year of Painting is an instructional painting book inspired by the author’s online course A Year of Painting. It is structured around monthly guidance, with step-by-step demo sections and additional inspiration linked to each period of practice.

Alena Hennessy frames intuitive painting as a process that begins with freedom, meets doubt as work deepens, and then progresses through refinement and acceptance. The book encourages readers to trust their “gut” and adapt the lessons to their own style and approach.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• How to get the most out of the book, including using lessons as a starting point and making steps your own.
• Step-by-step demo lessons, including Bewitching Portraits and Like a Masterwork.
• Monthly “Check-In” sections for each part of the year, such as Summer Check-In and Winter Check-In.
• Suggested materials and art terms pages that support the demos.
• Additional inspiration sections connected to the monthly lessons.
• Back matter that includes an index and acknowledgments, plus an About Alena section.

Why This Book Matters

This workshop supports a long-term painting routine, with a structure that encourages consistent practice rather than one-time projects. The author’s approach emphasizes intuition, trust, and personal visual voice.

Because each monthly lesson includes prompts and examples from contributing artists, readers can compare different approaches while still focusing on their own creative process.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This is a digital download. There is no physical shipping.

Access is available after purchase, and the PDF can be used with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop, mobile, or other reading apps that support PDF files.

No promise of printing is made.

FAQ

Do I get instant access after purchase?
Yes. You can download the PDF after your purchase through your account.

Is there a physical book shipped to me?
No. This product is a digital PDF download.

Will it work on my device?
It should work on devices and apps that support PDF viewing, including Kindle apps and common reading apps.

If you want a year-focused painting structure that keeps intuitive practice at the center, this workshop format can be a useful starting point.

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