I just want to say if you are here and you haven't been through Kate's classroom - please take the time to do so. Today I popped back in as I reached a level that unlocked a PDF so I thought I'd just have a wander through again. Do yourself a favour and do the Week One exercise! Kate walks you gently through Art Journaling - it's a great way to express oneself, to process life and to heal if needed. Anything goes, there are no rules! Enjoy - I'd love to see your work Below is another journal cover I made - it's really just a collage of plants, colours and tones that I love.

One thing I am very much excited for is the Winter Olympics ! 🥳 If you had to compete in the Smidgen Olympics, what would your event be?

✨ This week’s resources are now live ✨ For both big beans and small beans , you’ll find them waiting for you in the classrooms. This week feels especially fitting because it’s all about champions… and I earned my Skool flame today, so I’m very much feeling like one right now 🔥 (tiny wins, big feelings). It got me thinking about my own champion. Mine was my primary school teacher who was always so supportive of my artwork. Then, in a slightly magical turn of events, I ended up going for some healing as an adult… and she was the practitioner ❤️ I told her how much she had shaped my life and we both cried. I think when we start to notice who our champions are, we can begin to understand something really important: what we needed then is often what we still need now. And that’s such a gentle place to begin. 💛

If you read my post yesterday I had so much trouble painting yesterday that I gave up. Sometimes this is the thing to do. Today I came back with fresh eyes, My problem for context Iam painting legs underwater which requires foreshortening. 🙈 I decided a different method may help so out came the chalk pastels. For some reason when working on the figure in life drawing this just makes sense for me. I think maybe because you have less control you’re forced to make better decisions. But my point is for whatever reason if something in life isn’t working out. Sometimes attacking it from a different more uncomfortable position can can actually provide you with better results ❤️

Welcome @Peta Mitchell 🙌🏻 it’s great to have you here 🥰