Merav Shaked
Permission to create
Workshops, talks and guided creative sessions, for teams, communities and conferences, and for individuals too. With paint on paper or on screen with AI, and nobody grades it.
To me, paper and screen are the same thing.
Intuitive painting for a group
For a team, a community or a conference, with no painting experience at all. Nobody grades it, and what comes out on paper goes home with you.
Build a first page with AI
For a team or a community, with no technical background needed. I teach you to say in words what you want, and you end up with a page you built yourself.
A talk: so it doesn’t look like everyone else’s
For design, product and creative teams. From the day the AI spelled my name wrong, to one list of what we never do, ready to start from tomorrow morning.
One to one creative release
For individuals: painting, and sometimes words too. Come with a clear goal or with none at all, just to let go and get a little messy.
For anyone who wants to make and feel.
For teams, communities and conferences, for makers whose work swallowed their making, and for anyone who hasn’t painted since childhood and still misses it. There’s no entry level here. There’s paper and paint, and sometimes a screen.
You come in without knowing how to paint, and leave with something that wasn’t there before.
Set down the need to get it right
A few minutes of breathing and settling into the room. Then paper, paint, and a first mark with no decision about where it ends.
Follow the hand
I offer a direction, and the hand follows color and impulse. When the inner critic shows up, we do not argue with it, we keep painting.
Look at what came out
We look at what came out with a good eye, sometimes with a few written words beside it. Not to interpret it, just to notice what repeats.
I think in lines, shapes, and marks, before words.
I’m Merav Shaked, always an artist ∞ and a designer for about 15 years, fluent in visual language. Most of those years I created for clients, from behind a screen. Today I design and build with AI, paint for myself, and guide processes of creative release through painting, writing, and reconnecting to an inner creative voice.
In client work there was never room to fail, to waste, to stop and say “I don’t know”. Here I let myself do all of it: no brief, no approval, no idea where it would land. I bring that permission into the room.
Mess is not something to apologize for.Mess is evidence that I was here. That I touched. That I wasn't afraid.
Liron Amram went through the process with me, and something opened up.
A lawyer, product manager and entrepreneur. Not a trained artist, but a maker at heart. She gave herself permission to let go, get messy, and create for the joy of it. That’s where PlaySoul was born: an app we’re building together, for a short daily creative practice you can do on your own.
Intuitive making is the same agreement: to be present in the making, in the moment. An invitation to see with a good eye everything that’s there: the love, the freedom, the doubts, the mess, the mistakes. And to create from there.
Feel like creating? Let us talk.
Fifteen minutes to tell me who will be in the room and what you’d like to happen there. From there we shape a workshop, a talk or a session that fits. No commitment.