Welcome to the Icons + Legends series. Each month I will highlight a different artist and share what I find fascinating about their work and life. This month in the spotlight is beloved Finnish painter, Helen Schjerfbeck. Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) was a Finnish...
Join me in Franklin, TN September 18-19, 2026 for a two-day art workshop Experiments on Paper! Registration will open next Friday, February 20th @ 10am MT. Get on the first to know list! Be the first to know when registration opens for the September 18-19, 2026...
Max Beckmann with Gillian Lee Smith | Early Registration + Instant Access I have been wanting to do this for so long! This is really a big day over here! We have courses that SO MANY of you have asked to purchase and we have let you know a remastered version is...
I am constantly in awe of the beauty that is all around me if I have my eyes open to it. Sometimes I find it through my tears as I leave our youngest far from home, watching our children figure out themselves, finding new rhythms in a home with just the two of us,...
Over the years when I would dream up the kind of courses I wanted to be able to offer our community, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I love an online art course that invites you to create wherever you go and to pause in your day to day life to see the beauty...
Over the years when I would dream up the kind of courses I wanted to be able to offer our community, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I love an online art course that invites you to create wherever you go and to pause in your day to day life to see the beauty...
Over the years when I would dream up the kind of courses I wanted to be able to offer our community, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I love an online art course that invites you to create wherever you go and to pause in your day to day life to see the beauty...
I am all about embracing winter and welcoming the new year slowly and intentionally. Winter is usually my most creative time of the year here in Colorado. I love the rhythm, smell of hot coffee and a fire burning, the sound of walks in the snow, the day’s work...
Honored to be interviewed by a local magazine and it just was released. If you are in the Highlands Ranch area you can find physical copies of the magazine. For everyone I am including the link to the digital version. Thank you to Highlands Ranch City Lifestyle for...
SOLD OUT. If you are interested in being added to the waitlist please click HERE. 1 more day until registration opens for Art As Worship hosted in Versailles, Kentucky! So many of you have asked to me to offer this live art workshop again and I hope I am able...
SOLD OUT. If you are interested in being added to the waitlist please click HERE. 2 days until registration opens for Art As Worship hosted in Versailles, Kentucky! So many of you have asked to me to offer this live art workshop again and I hope I am able to...
SOLD OUT. If you are interested in being added to the waitlist please click HERE. 3 days until registration opens for Art As Worship hosted in Versailles, Kentucky! So many of you have asked to me to offer this live art workshop again and I hope I am...
Copyright Audrey Walker, reproduced with kind permission of the Walker family. Have you ever looked at a painting of the sea and the movement within the work was so expressive that you could taste the saltwater on your face, feel the breeze whipping through...
Welcome to the Icons + Legends series. Each month I will highlight a different artist and share what I find fascinating about their work and life. This month in the spotlight is London based painter, Haidee Becker. Haidee Becker (born 1950) is an...
Using your favorite family photos or found images, we will create whimsical portraits surrounded by Matisse inspired floral backgrounds. In this 4 hour workshop you will learn how to break down the face, transfer your image to a wood panel, create...
So excited that there are so many new friends here! Welcome! I am so glad you are here and I am thankful that we get to wander together creatively.My name is Jeanne Oliver and I grew up in rural Illinois and now reside in Castle Rock, CO. I was talked out of art...
Using your favorite family photos or found images, we will create whimsical portraits surrounded by Matisse inspired floral backgrounds. In this 4 hour workshop you will learn how to break down the face, transfer your image to a wood panel, create...
Only 24 Hours left of our semi-annual 50% off online course sale! USE CODE: JO50 We only do this twice a year and this will not happen again until June 2026! You can buy as many online art + lifestyle courses that you want for 50% off. We...
Welcome to the first podcast of season seven and the new year! Today I’m joined by artist, author, boutique hotel owner, and gatherer of beauty Betty Soldi, whose life has been shaped by light, alchemy, and the practice of noticing. Born in Florence into a...
Over the years when I would dream up the kind of courses I wanted to be able to offer our community, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I love an online art course that invites you to create wherever you go and to pause in your day to day life to see the beauty...
Our semi-annual 50% off online course sale has just begun! USE CODE: JO50 We only do this twice a year and this will not happen again until June 2026! You can buy as many online art + lifestyle courses that you want for 50% off. We have...
Our semi-annual 50% off sale will begin in 1 more day! Did you know we have a WISHLIST feature? You can now add any course to your WISHLIST. Start looking through our courses (we have over 120 art, lifestyle and business courses to choose from) and find the...
Our semi-annual 50% off sale will begin in 2 days! Did you know we have a WISHLIST feature? You can now add any course to your WISHLIST. Start looking through our courses (we have over 120 art, lifestyle and business courses to choose from) and find the course...
Our semi-annual 50% off sale will begin in 3 days! Did you know we have a WISHLIST feature? You can now add any course to your WISHLIST. Start looking through our courses (we have over 120 art, lifestyle and business courses to choose from) and find the...
The changing of seasons can always be an invitation for reflection and sometimes change. It is a physical reminder around us to take the time to notice the changes within us. Whether you are finding yourself in need of finding beauty and rest in the slower season of...
This past weekend we recorded the live Creative Resistance online workshop. We created two art journals/sketchbooks, showed how to print your designs on the book cover and how I create collage art pages for future work and art journals. If you would like to learn how...
I love books. Old books, new books, bookstores, vintage papers and of course checklists on paper. I am a paper girl. I read a lot and I would love to share more but then where do we stop? These are my top favorite 12 books of 2025 in no particular order. I would LOVE...
We have some brand new portrait prints that have just been added to the shop. Each piece comes signed and thoughtfully wrapped so they arrive to you safely. I can’t wait to wait to wrap them up for you! To shop all prints click HERE....
REGISTRATION IS OPEN! South West French Countryside Art Retreat|October 3-10, 2026 I have been working with Uptrek for months now to put together our next art retreat together! I taught two art retreats for them in France this past May and the reviews of the...
If you love history, creativity and studying the works/lives of other artists, you will LOVE our free book club! The next book is Art Work by Sally Mann. We will meet via Zoom on February 7th @ 10am MT. If you have not joined the free book club, please click...
Modern + Artful Design Inspiration | For The Maker Journal Entry No. 18 This is our final journal entry of the Modern + Artful Design Inspiration series. We have loved offering them and I am excited about the new series we will begin in 2026! I would like to...
Join us for another Studying Under the Masters online course! If there is one kind of course we hear from you that you are wanting more of, this is it! This series has been a foundation of our site from the beginning and more are in the works. I am very proud to...
Today I’m talking with artist, writer, photographer, storyteller, mother, and co-founder of Peg and Awl, Margaux Kent, whose life and work are rooted in curiosity, handmade practice, rhythms, and nature. Margaux shares how journaling has been a lifelong...
While in Milan last summer I was in the most beautiful vintage bookstore. My heart was set on little vintage poetry books in Italian. As I was slowly scanning the spines for the perfect treasure to take home my eyes instantly stopped on a vintage poetry book...
While in Milan last summer I was in the most beautiful vintage bookstore. My heart was set on little vintage poetry books in Italian. As I was slowly scanning the spines for the perfect treasure to take home my eyes instantly stopped on a vintage poetry book...
Over the years when I would dream up the kind of courses I wanted to be able to offer our community, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I love an online art course that invites you to create wherever you go and to pause in your day to day life to see the beauty...
I can count on one hand the experiences that truly changed my art (and then in turn our business) and hands down the most life, heart and art changing were live art retreats. Being a student, getting out of my comfort zone, having my head and heart open and giving...
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