Art as Talisman Workshop: Intention Painting with Shug (Sheri Lee Robinson)
Sunday October 4th from 10:30am to 1:30pm
Entry Level Class—No experience necessary
Age 18+
All materials, tools, and supplies are included in the class fee.
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This magical workshop will take you on a journey using your own written intentions to create a potent painting that can have a lasting beneficial impact for yourself and those around you for years to come. What are your intentions and desires? What do you want?
We will start by exploring our intentions through discussion and some quick jotting down of ideas, then we will write our intentions DIRECTLY onto the canvas, letting them “sink in” before we paint over them. The words will eventually be entirely covered with paint but their power will be very much alive in the finished piece, acting as a talisman or charm. I love abstract art and find it works well for my own intention paintings, but if you want to do a landscape or seascape or a portrait…or just fingerpaint, go for it!
I will guide you along and ask you to really trust your gut when it comes to applying the paint. We can use our hands, brushes or palette knives to work the materials and have some fun in the process.
- All are welcome to attend and no art-making experience is necessary.
- Aprons, gloves, and all materials/tools/supplies will be provided.
- Each attendee will take home multiple works of art, along with the know-how and inspiration to continue making on their own.
About the Instructor:
S. Lee Robinson is a Detroit-based abstract and surrealist painter with over 35 years of studio practice. She holds a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an Art Therapy Practitioner certificate, and currently serves as the 2026 Artist in Residence at The Village Club in Bloomfield Hills through the Women of Impact Residency Program. She teaches abstract and process-based painting at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, and her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in Architectural Digest and California Homes. She teaches the way she paints — intuitively, generously, and with a deep belief that every hand in the room is capable of something honest on the canvas.
