Everything
I am no longer offering courses and workshops, however you are still welcome to enjoy the blog, downloads, and free offerings available here.
Free Things
How to feel more comfortable making art outdoors
Feel like ‘plein air’ is just for the realists? Not sure how it would fit into your own art practice? Feel uncomfortable about people asking questions or watching you at work?
This free workshop shows you how to set yourself up for a confident plein air experience that works for you.
16 Ways to Make a Painting More Abstract
Read the most popular blog post I ever wrote, and get a free checklist while you’re at it.
Free guide to creating in collections + 1 page planner
In this FREE guide, you’ll find:
- 10 questions to help you discern whether making your art in collections would work for you
- 10 benefits of working in collections
- 5 common questions answered
- What to consider before creating in collections
- 5 steps to start the process
PLUS a 1 page Collection Planner
Mini Workshops
You know that pile of paintings and drawings on paper you have stacked up in the corner, looking reproachfully at you?
Make Cards from Your Art is a workshop that will help you put them to good use, in the easiest, most fun and relaxing way possible. Not to mention you end up with a batch of cards of your original art at the end, to use for any occasion.
Feel a bit daunted by colour and how to use it in your art?
Colour theory is a huge field of study, and it can feel overwhelming to know how to begin to use it confidently.
But you don’t need to read all the books and make all the colour wheels to make resonant, meaningful, true-to-you art.
Sometimes you just need a starting point to get a foot in the door, so you can begin to make your own exciting colour discoveries. The Exploring Colour Intuitively workshop can help!
For artists who want to shake up their practice and play more … but aren’t sure how to begin.
We’re so used to making our art a certain way, and to ‘producing’ work with an agenda in mind. It can be all too easy to ‘paint ourselves into a corner’ and lose that freedom of expression we had when we started.
And sometimes we just want to do something simple and fun, but we’re not sure where to start, or we need an idea or two to get us going. Play within Parameters offers a simple way to begin.
Workbooks + Planners
Make sure your best energy is spent in the studio!
Create your own unique approach to using Instagram {or any social media platform} as an artist that doesn’t have you attached to your phone or feeling bad about yourself with the printable Instagram Playbook.
{Like a workbook, but less intense. 😉}
A planner for artists who don’t do planning! Many of us resist the word ‘plan’ when it comes to our creativity, but having a flexible framework you can adapt to suit your unique and specific needs can result in more accomplishments, more dreams coming true, and more fulfillment as an artist.
The My Creative Year planner contains a range of different pages you can print out and use according to your needs at any time of year, including a collection planner, daily and weekly diary, and a range of other options designed especially for artists.
The Happy Artist Workbook offers 45 pages of questions and prompts to guide you to greater clarity in your artist life.
From your voice to your practice, from your mindset to your materials, you’ll come away with a deeper understanding of yourself as an artist, what you want to create, and how you want to do it.
Books + Merch
Curated from a decade of the much loved emails, The Artnotes Collection is a book of encouragement, stories, insights, and fresh perspectives for artists of all kinds.
Now available on Kindle and in Paperback!
My first book is for beginners and re-starters. It’s designed to take you on a journey back to yourself, using your creativity as your lantern and guide. With everyday wisdom and life lessons that I have experienced, developed and use regularly, you are encouraged and supported as you take steps forward into knowing and enjoying yourself as a creative being.
Whether you haven’t picked up a paintbrush in years or are simply finding yourself uninspired lately, you will find within these pages the opportunity to give yourself the joyful and liberating gift of your own creativity. In a simple format of discussion and inspiring images followed by prompts and ideas, and a bundle of resources at the end of the book, you are sure to find something to ignite your creative spark.
Every artist needs a special mug for the all important beverage to take into the studio! Especially when it says ‘Happy Artist’ on it. 😊👩🏼🎨
A fun and useful addition to your Happy Artist life, the Happy Artist mug makes a great gift for an artist.
Suggestion: Buy two in different colours – one for your drink, and one for paint water!
Choose from one of six colours, plus white {in two sizes}.
From approx. £15
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