Lisa Bryson | Form in Flux: The Art of Transformation

Workshop: Form in Flux: The Art of Transformation

Dates: February 20-22, 2026

Instructor: Lisa Bryson

Days: 3

Class Size: 14

Level: All

Tuition: $750

Includes: Complimentary lunches and beverages served daily in studio.

Explore the face not as surface, but as psychological terrain.

Beginning with traditional portrait methods focused on likeness and form, participants then dismantle what they’ve built—distorting, disrupting, and reassembling the image through both traditional and experimental media.

The process emphasizes construction, destruction, and reconstruction as a way to move beyond representation and toward presence. The face becomes a site of inquiry rather than reproduction: a place where memory, identity, fragmentation, and emotion surface through material intervention.

By engaging in erosion, layering, and reformation, students are invited to investigate what remains when resemblance collapses and what deeper likeness emerges in its place. The work shifts from depiction to discovery, opening a dialogue between outer form and interior experience.

Workshop Highlights

• Portrait construction using traditional drawing and painting techniques

• Deconstruction through experimental mark-making and material disruption

• Exploration of identity, memory, and psychological form

• Individual and group critique focused on meaning and visual language

• Emphasis on process, emotional intelligence, and visual inquiry

• Accessible to intermediate and advanced artists

Instructor Website

Instructor Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/bryson_mode

Supply List

• 18 x 24 mixed media paper pad

• Two 11 x 14 canvases (flat canvas board is acceptable)

• Larger canvas is encouraged - eg 18 x 24 - up to 30 x 40

• Brushes, palette knives, squeegees, spatulas.

• If you paint in oil: Zinc white, black, red, blue, yellow (and any other colors you may have on hand - student grade is acceptable)

• Oil sticks (varied colors - but not mandatory)

• Turpenoid with container for cleaning brushes, palette for mixing paint.

• If you paint in acrylic: Titanium white, black, red, blue, yellow and any other colors you may have on hand; (Golden brand is preferred, but student grad is acceptable)

• Vine or compressed charcoal sticks

• Palette for mixing paint..

• Paper towels

• Printed images of your face and body (full front, head to toe - clothed, no toothy smiles, pensive is better)