Painting Without Limits: A Journey to Create and Break Boundaries.

Welcome to a course that goes beyond just painting. This is not your typical workshop where you simply follow instructions and hope that, someday, some art might emerge from your brushes. Here, we’re going to dive into the artistic process in a direct, raw, and practical way, challenging your expectations and pushing you to explore painting as a medium to create something truly yours and unique.

Painting is one of the oldest and most universal forms of expression, accompanying humanity since its beginnings and evolving alongside thought and culture. This art form has passed through various stages and styles, reflecting how societies understood the world and themselves. Here, we’ll take a brief journey through the history of painting to place this artistic medium in context and appreciate its importance over time.

This first week focuses on one thing only: teaching you to see and paint with the most intense contrast possible.

This week isn’t about copying like a diligent student. No. We’re here to challenge the greats. Choose a famous work from art history, something that’s moved you, and reinterpret that piece.

This week brings a powerful exercise: create something your favourite painter never painted. 

This week isn’t about copying an art movement; it’s about getting into the core of a style and reviving it with something that matters to you today. 

This week isn’t just about making two pretty paintings that look good together. It’s about using the diptych as a tool to tell a story in two acts, to create tension, contrast, or dialogue that can’t be captured in a single piece. 

This week we’re going to do something completely out of the ordinary. Forget about brushes, smooth canvases, and perfect colour blends. 

This week isn’t about painting an object or a landscape; it’s about painting an experience, capturing the essence of something you’d rarely see depicted in art.

This week we’re taking painting to a new level. It’s not about choosing a single theme or style; it’s about choosing several and making them all fit into one work. Portrait, landscape, still life, abstraction…

This week, the challenge is to explore a single motif to its fullest. It’s not enough to choose a theme and paint it; you have to push it to its limits and see how many versions you can create from the same concept.

This week we’re not just going to paint; we’re going to create and transform. The exercise involves building a collage using various materials—magazine clippings, photographs, paper, fabric, anything you like—to construct a complete composition, and then using that collage as a sketch for a painting.

This week, we’re going to break the rules of visual reality and reinvent the world through colour. The task is to choose any landscape—natural, urban, or otherwise—and change all of its natural colours to something unexpected and unconventional. 

This is the final challenge of the course, and we’re not settling for a “normal” painting. This week, the goal is to break the barrier between painting and object, between the artwork and the space it inhabits. 

Congratulations on completing the Painting Workshop for Creativity Development at 90 Millas Art Space!