Here is what the lifecycle of my professional paintings looks like: 🎉 I have an awesome idea!!!!!! 🖼️🖼️ I can’t wait to get it on canvas 🤔🤔🤔 Hmmm… I’m not sure about this 🤮🤮🤮🤮 Omg this is horrible. I’m not even sure I should be in this profession. 🤔🤔🤔 Well… ok… this might be alright 🖼️🖼️ Wow… this actually turned out OK! 🎉 Oh, I am excited to share this one! Every❕ Single❕ Time❕ Sometimes, you have to go thru the motions. Keep going. Continue doing the thing that you learned even though it FEELS wrong. 🫨 DON’T PANIC 🛑 DON’T GIVE UP 🟢 KEEP GOING!!!!! We have to release our expectations a little bit. Loosen up the reigns. Sometimes it means taking a break and picking it up again tomorrow. And that is PERFECTLY OK!!! 💬 Have you ever quit something halfway through because you hated it? If your painting looks terrible halfway through… congratulations. You’re doing it like a Pro!

🕹️ Step 1: Drop 3 GIFs that describe your day TODAY. No explanations—make us guess 🔔 Step 2: Ring the bell 🔔 (top right of this post) 🎮 Step 3: Go guess what other people’s GIFs mean This is about to get chaotic… in the best way 😆 Sass and socially unacceptable GIFS are acceptable here.

Not the most expensive. Not the “fanciest.” The one you actually love. It can be: - An original - A print - A poster - Something you made - Something someone gave you - Something you bought. Heck… it could be something you found at a yard sale and refuse to part with 😆 📸 Snap a pic and drop it here - What it is - Why you love it - What it means to you Because THAT… is what art is actually about.

These are real students from my in-person classes. People who: • had never used oil paint • thought they “weren’t artistic” • almost didn’t sign up Go ahead and click on them to see the painting bigger. I am SO insanely proud of these students. Some of them are in this community! 👇👇👇

🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️ @Janice Peterson I had a little contest in these posts. The WINNER has earned herself a FREE painting! Janice submitted this image, and it will be our FIRST paint along demo. So not only did she submit and you, the community voted on the image as your favorite, but she earned the most tickets in the comments and will Receive the demo painting. YAYYYYYYY Ok - Now I have to get busy. My goal is to have this online next week.