SHIFT—body-based drawing immersion
a monthly live online four-week series to go deeper into drawing
SHIFT follows the Drawing Within essay series—a year-long exploration of drawing as method. Every month examines one theme through body, breath, movement, and mark. Four weekly essays, each with drawing prompts, guide your solo practice throughout the month.
Then gather live on the last Friday. One 90-minute session that brings the month’s inquiry into collective practice. Guided somatic drawing. Real-time exploration. No critique, just marks.
The essays build your practice. The session deepens it together.
Each session follows the BBMM structure:
Body as Vessel: Sensing weight, gravity, impulse—calibrating the body as drawing instrument
Breath as Vehicle: How breath determines mark duration, pressure, and rhythm
Movement as Impulse: Tracking eight effort qualities through the body in space
Mark as Evidence: Translating movement to surface—learning each effort as a mark
Structure as Relationship: How opposition and repetition create compositional coherence
Gesture as Feeling: Micro-textures and how they shape emotional resonance
Reciprocity: Understanding drawing as exchange between body and surface
– 4 live, 90-minute somatic drawing sessions
– guided themes, prompts, and integration
– optional Q+A and collective reflection
– no critique, no performance, no recordings—just presence
– all details online. spots are limited.