Painting Emotional Weather
Join me for a 4-Week In-Person Immersive Workshop!
Limited to 2 participants per workshop
What if painting could be a conversation between your inner world and the canvas? What if your brush didn’t follow rules, but emotion?
Learn to paint what you feel—not what you see. This intimate workshop series will help you translate emotion into color, movement, and expressive marks through guided exercises and layered abstract painting. We'll explore intuition, layering, release, and reflection—no perfection required.
A Four-Week In-Person Immersive Workshop with Kat Collins
Limited to 2 participants per workshop series
What if painting could be a conversation between your inner world and the canvas? What if your brush didn’t follow rules, but emotion?
Painting Emotional Weather is a four-week, in-person immersive workshop for just two artists at a time. This intimate setting offers the space, quiet, and attention to dive deeply into your creative process—where every gesture becomes a form of emotional expression, and every color speaks from within.
Through guided prompts, intuitive techniques, and gentle reflection, you’ll learn to paint not what you see, but what you feel. Each session will build on the last, allowing your confidence to grow alongside your trust in the unknown.
You get to choose the day and time that works best for you. I can’t guarantee your first choice, but I’ll try my hardest to make it work!
*If you need a payment plan, please contact me.
DATES & TIME:
The Dates and times are your choice! You choose the date/time that works best for you when you register.
Once a week for 4-weeks
At my studio in Emmaus, PA
While I’ll share my techniques and intuitive process, this workshop isn’t about painting like me—it’s about helping you uncover how you paint. My goal is to guide you toward your own creative voice, your personal mark-making language, and the rhythm that’s uniquely yours. Together, we’ll explore how your emotions move through your hands, how your colors speak, and how your paintings can become honest reflections of your inner world.
About The Workshop
Workshop Details
Duration: 4 weeks (1 session per week)
Session Length: 3 hours
Participants: 2 maximum per workshop
Location: Kat Collins’s Studio, Emmaus, PA
Most materials provided
Students will need to bring their own brushes and paint (supply list below)
A Four-Week In-Person Immersive Workshop with Kat Collins
Limited to 2 participants per workshop series
What if painting could be a conversation between your inner world and the canvas? What if your brush didn’t follow rules, but emotion?
Painting Emotional Weather is a four-week, in-person immersive workshop for just two artists at a time. This intimate setting offers the space, quiet, and attention to dive deeply into your creative process—where every gesture becomes a form of emotional expression, and every color speaks from within.
Through guided prompts, intuitive techniques, and gentle reflection, you’ll learn to paint not what you see, but what you feel. Each session will build on the last, allowing your confidence to grow alongside your trust in the unknown.
You get to choose the day and time that works best for you. I can’t guarantee your first choice, but I’ll try my hardest to make it work!
✨ You’ll Explore:
Translating feeling into form through gesture and texture
Creating a personal “color mood map” to guide emotional expression
Mark-making as a visual language unique to you
Layering techniques to build depth, mystery, and transformation
Working without a plan—and knowing when to stop
Reflective practices to help name, witness, and understand your work
🎁 What You’ll Receive:
Individualized feedback and support throughout the four weeks
A curated workbook with journaling prompts, exercises, and creative tools
Time to develop a personal body of abstract work
A quiet, nurturing studio environment designed for creative trust
WORKFLOW
Workshop days and times are your choice!
WEEK 1: Mapping the Mood
Theme: Emotional awareness + intuitive beginning
Welcome & journaling: What is the weather inside me today?
Create a “Color Mood Map” (emotion + color associations)
Intro to mark-making and non-verbal gesture exercises
Start your first intuitive painting using limited palette and feeling-based gestures
WEEK 2: Layering + Letting Go
Theme: Depth, transformation, and risk-taking
Check-in: How has your emotional weather shifted?
Demo: Transparent layering, smudging, and covering
Revisit painting #1 and work into it with new emotion-based marks and tools
Begin a second painting, this time starting from the unknown
WEEK 3: Movement + Mood
Theme: Emotional energy and atmosphere
Guided movement or music-based mark-making
Use rhythm, repetition, and physicality to explore emotional motion
Continue layering both paintings with texture, subtle shifts, or bold edits
Journaling: What is this painting starting to tell me?
WEEK 4: Tending the Edge + Witnessing
Theme: Finishing, softening, or letting it remain unresolved
Quiet studio work: tending, refining, or simplifying
Use subtle editing (glaze, smudge, draw, remove) to guide resolution
Final journaling
Title your work using intuitive or poetic language
MATERIALS
Let’s get started!
Have questions? Email me!
A Four-Week In-Person Immersive Workshop with Kat Collins
Limited to 2 participants per workshop series
What if painting could be a conversation between your inner world and the canvas? What if your brush didn’t follow rules, but emotion?
Painting Emotional Weather is a four-week, in-person immersive workshop for just two artists at a time. This intimate setting offers the space, quiet, and attention to dive deeply into your creative process—where every gesture becomes a form of emotional expression, and every color speaks from within.
Through guided prompts, intuitive techniques, and gentle reflection, you’ll learn to paint not what you see, but what you feel. Each session will build on the last, allowing your confidence to grow alongside your trust in the unknown.
You get to choose the day and time that works best for you. I can’t guarantee your first choice, but I’ll try my hardest to make it work!
