So, autumn has won our challenge! 🎉 But that definitely doesn’t mean you have to give up on the other ideas you loved. You can still make flowers — just give them a beautiful autumn twist. 🌻🍂 Love Halloween? 🎃 Of course you can go for it! Pumpkins, spooky vibes, autumn colours… it all fits perfectly. Want to make a whimsical children’s-book illustration? Absolutely! Just give it a fall theme. 🍄🦊🍁 And if you voted for something else, I’m sure you can find a way to bring your favourite idea into the autumn theme. So basically… fall gives us plenty of room to do our own thing. 😄 Have fun with it, experiment, and most importantly: make something you actually feel like making! ❤️🎨 I can’t wait to see what you all come up with! 🍂 Old: October is just around the corner, and before we start creating together, we thought it would be fun to let you decide the theme! Here are the ideas: 🏡 Home 🧺 Picnic 📚 Children’s Book Illustration 🌸 Flowers 🎃 Halloween 🍂 Fall / Autumn Vote for your favourite theme in the poll! You can choose the one that inspires you most, makes you curious, or simply sounds like fun. And as always, this challenge is open to all materials and all styles. Use watercolor, acrylics, oils, gouache, pencils, mixed media, collage, digital art… whatever you love working with. You can create: ✨ One piece ✨ Multiple pieces ✨ Small sketches ✨ Finished artworks There are no rules and no pressure — just a chance to create together, experiment, and fill October with art. Once the winning theme is chosen, we’ll create and share our work in the community using: #messyartsquadoctoberchallenge I can’t wait to see which theme wins! 🎨❤️

I was TRYING to do flowart with acrylic. Not what i was trying to do but great in its own right. I forgot to dot eyes with black dot so its a blind cat lol poor kitty. Its on a wee wood board. The lumpy is kids glue and paint. I made huge mess is an understatement lol

I’ve just added a new list to our community: 40 online galleries to sell your art 🎨✨ I’ve included the prices, fees and all the important details. I think this could be a super valuable resource if you’re looking for new places to get your art out there and sell it. You can find it in the Classroom. Have a look and enjoy! ❤️

Okay Squad, I made you something. 50 sketching prompt cards — sorted into 10 categories (Observe, Composition, People, Texture, Light & Shadow, Travel, Nature, Story, Practice, Mindset). Print them, cut them wonky, shuffle them, and pull one every morning. No thinking, no “which one is easiest,” just pull and draw. Here’s the thing though — this isn’t just a fun little challenge (even though it is one). Sketching is genuinely one of the best things you can do for your art, and there’s real science behind it: • Regular observational sketching sharpens your eye for proportion, light, and detail — and that skill carries over into everything else you make, painting included. • Sketching engages both sides of your brain at once — the logical side and the creative side — which is part of why it feels so good and clears your head. • Even one short session of art-making has been shown to boost people’s confidence in their own ability to actually finish and succeed at what they set out to make. So this isn’t “just doodling.” It’s foundational reps. Every fine artist you admire has thousands of ugly little sketches behind their good work — you’re just starting yours today. Here’s how we play: 1. Pull a card (or comment a number 1–50 and I’ll tell you what you got 👀) 2. Set a timer, draw for the suggested time — 5 to 25 min, no pressure 3. Post it here with your card number 4. Go look at what everyone else did with the SAME prompt — it’ll never be what you expect There is no wrong way to do this. A stick figure counts. A page you hate still counts. You showing up with a pen is the whole point. Who’s in? Link to the 50 sketch prompt: https://www.skool.com/responsibly-messy-artists-8983/classroom/76b07627?md=2734cd89eae746128d3621e8ccb41d51

Hey Messy Art Squad 👋 I put together a guide on fixing your Instagram bio — profile photo, username, the four-line structure, highlights, all of it. No perfect-marketer voice, just what actually works. Grab it below 👇 https://www.skool.com/responsibly-messy-artists-8983/classroom/1e7f38d8?md=6facd13984da417c912b6796e6e038ca