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Jodie King
July 11 - 16, 2027

Honest Art® Workshop
Medium: Paint and Mixed Media
Level: All Levels
Location: Studio
Status: Open for Registration

Deposit is $450
Day Student Tuition: $3,300
Inn-Stay Package*: $4,551 - $5,106
*Your Inn-Stay Retreat Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, lodging, dinner 2 nights (welcome and farewell), breakfast and lunch each day, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer.
For your independent dinners, there are many restaurants with a wide variety of cuisines and price points, within comfortable walking distance of the Inn, plus Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s.
You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
To learn more about your options or to register, click the Register Now button.

Who is this workshop for? If you are a beginner, you’ll be given the opportunity to learn composition, color mixing, mark making and more, all in a welcoming environment. If you are an advanced artist, Jodie will help you create your most honest work through understanding the personal energy you bring to your art, embracing your personal mark making and how you choose the color combinations in a more intuitive way. Either way, this workshop will help you and your art advance to a new level in a judgement-free, joy-filled zone.
Everything we’ll cover:
The Mother Color - Jodie’s trademarked color mixing technique
Great composition and why it matters
How to find (and embrace) YOUR unique voice, also known as Honest Art®
Ways to get out of the frustrating “fugly” stage
How to truly have FUN with the process
The magic of values
How to create your most Honest Art® EVER!
What to do when you’re stuck in your painting
The 4 elements of fine art (you’ll be surprised by #1)
How to understand the personal energy your you bring to your art
Jodie’s personal painting techniques and processes
How to use intuitive ways to select colors
Ways to use meditation and journaling to enhance your art
Jodie’s best-kept secrets to advancing your art to the next level!

Who is she? Jodie King is an artist, instructor, podcaster and speaker living in Austin, Texas. As a professional artist for over 22 years, her true love is painting and paints primarily in abstract expressionism. She uses paint and other media to convey outwardly her own experience of mind, body and spirit. At the heart of her work is a call to all of us to live unapologetically in our own truth. Her relaxed, irreverent teaching style helps you let go of your fears and inhibitions in order to create raw, free, honest art.
















You will receive email confirmations when you sign up and when any payments are made,
and a Welcome email from us in the week or two before the retreat begins.
$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Pay in Full at time of registration and save $100 (does not apply to Day Student package)
Please send an email to [email protected] (preferred)
or call us at 860-781-4389 if you have any questions.
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