The AbD Buddy System workshops are offered as a vehicle, to personalize the workshop experience for you and your friends. You design, create and produce your work in concert with your friends (buddies), by bringing an AbD workshop to your city.

Expand your practice through the art of working in sequence. In this workshop, we use the Abstraction by Design (AbD) method to explore multiple series-based formats across connected panels.

Create a cohesive body of work across twelve 12”x12” panels in this fast-paced, mixed media workshop. Designed for artists ready to push both quality and quantity. This workshop activates your creative flow through structured repetition, intuitive response, and decisive editing.

Layered Beginnings An introduction to Abstraction by Design and, the perfect refresher for returning artists. New to the Abstraction by Design process? Layered Beginnings is where it all starts. Have you taken an AbD workshop before but haven’t had the opportunity to practice the process? Consider this your invitation to jump back in, refresh your skills, and get back into the rhythm of working with layers. In this mixed-media workshop, we’ll build dynamic, textured surfaces by layering paper and paint and create working surfaces that can be sanded, scraped, peeled, painted, collaged, and reworked again and again. The goal is

IN STUDIO WORKSHOP IN STUDIO A Tailored 3-day 4-Student Workshop with Shem Step inside the studio and experience Abstraction by Design (AbD) in an intimate, hands-on workshop limited to just four artists.  With plenty of one-on-one guidance, you’ll explore materials, color, texture, composition, and design while developing a cohesive body of work. Working between table and wall, you’ll build layered surfaces, step back to assess, and make confident creative decisions along the way. WHAT YOU’LL EXPLORE ●Material selection, composition, design, and balance. ●Color mixing and tinting. Layering, texture, collage, and paint. ●Sanding, scraping, peeling, excavation, glueing, sealing, and clear coating.