Past Events

In this art workshop, learn the basic proportions for drawing a portrait with Art for Well-Being Instructor Maria Ojascastro. All you need is a pencil, an eraser, paper from your printer, a dime, and colored pencils or watercolor pencils or markers. This is perfect for the shy artist who wants step-by-step instructions.

Well-being is about having the inner resources to meet stress while being in the midst of it. PALM Health is pleased to introduce virtual educational workshops to help individuals increase well-being and resilience to stress. Virtual Know Yourself Workshops are designed to help you improve your overall well-being and awareness. In this workshop, participants are introduced to the groundbreaking Know Yourself DVD curriculum, which offers tools, concepts and self-reflection exercises to help foster calmness, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and mind-body health.

If you feel the need to detox after months at home, you’re not the only one. In this live Zoom webinar, our PALM Health doctors will address what toxins are, how they enter our system and affect our health, what symptoms indicate the need to rid the body of toxins, what the difference is between detoxification and elimination, and how to get started with a detoxification protocol.

In this five-day painting camp with Art for Well-Being instructor Maria Ojascastro, participants will take inspiration from master artists and learn techniques that they can use long after camp is over. Supplies needed: please pull from your stash or purchase the following: tempera or acrylic paint, brushes, palette knife, palette, plastic bag to cover the table, white paper, five canvas boards, scissors, glue stick, magazines, pencil, eraser, painters tape, or masking tape.

In this five-day stop-motion video camp with Art for Well-Being instructor Maria Ojascastro, participants will use their own iPad or iPhone to create stop-motion videos and art that’s ready to be displayed. Download “I Can Animate” on your iPad or “Stop Motion Studio” on your iPhone. Supplies needed: Please pull from your stash or purchase the following: model magic, oil pastels, pencil, eraser, scissors, black paper, white paper, black marker, acrylic paint, brushes, palette, jar of water, paper towels, plastic bag to cover the table, canvas boards, scissors, glue stick, and tape.

In this art workshop, we’ll use Pablo Picasso’s “Bottle of Suze” as our inspiration. Both novice and experienced artists will enjoy stretching their creativity with Art for Well-Being instructor Maria Ojascastro. You’ll learn art history and design concepts and receive guidance on making your own unique work of art. Supplies needed: pencil, eraser, scissors, glue stick or glue, 2-3 magazines and/or newspapers, 2 pieces of paper from your printer or any color construction paper, an interesting bottle, and acrylic or watercolor paint.

Art for Well-Being instructor Maria Ojascastro will introduce different artists, techniques, subjects, design concepts, or prompts to inspire your creativity several days prior to this virtual class. Take a good photo of the artwork you are working on, email it to her at mojascastro@palmhealth.com, and you’ll receive feedback from Maria and the other art class participants during this 45-minute visual art class. If you don’t have anything to share yet, join anyway to stretch your creativity and connect with other PALM members.

Both shy and experienced artists are invited to express themselves with color and texture while learning non-figurative painting. Art for Well-Being instructor Maria Ojascastro will teach you how to blend acrylic paint to create secondary and tertiary colors. Then she will challenge you to experiment with a palette knife, plastic fork, and aluminum foil to create a non-figurative painting inspired by the work of Amy Sillman. Enjoy 90 minutes of creativity to exercise your brain and boost your mood while receiving personalized instruction.