An online mixed media portrait course in acrylic paint. Soak in the medicine of the moon and the flight of the raven and paint a beautiful expressive portrait.

I’ll show you step by step how to draw a front facing portrait. Portraits can feel scary! I’ll lead you every step of the way and encourage you to be kind and compassionate with yourself as you create. I’ll also take you through some simple design tips for creating your own unique design. Finally, we will capture their story through a writing exercise and come up with a title for your piece.

Capture the spirit of the ocean in poetry. Connecting to the wonders of the ocean through art-making is an incredible way to find grounding and honour our beautiful planet.

In this class, I’ll show you step by step how to create your own mini Ocean’s Poem art journal and write a short poem about the beauties of the ocean. If you are new to art or to writing, please do not worry, I’d love to introduce you to both. We will focus on enjoying ourselves and being kind to ourselves as we create.

Connect to ancient stone medicine, and paint a beautiful expressive portrait inspired by your favourite stone.

Explore darks and lights in this mixed media portrait lesson.

Find grounding, connect to self, and paint a beautiful expressive portrait using earthy colours.

Create Earth’s Mother in an expressive face class and capture her story in a short poem.

Discover what nourishes your spirit and create your own beautiful set of medicine cards.

In this expressive portrait workshop facilitated by Melanie Rivers-- we will explore, play, and build portrait skills. Expand your creativity through non-dominant hand and blind-contour warm ups and then let's play with creating two paintings--- one with our dominant hand and one with our non-dominant hand. Bring your curiosity…