Not a class. Not a workshop. Just the feeling of not creating alone. ❤️ Pop in anytime to paint, draw, sketch or create. Someone may be there, or maybe not — and that’s totally okay! 😊 But if you go in, let people know you’re there! It makes it easier for others to join you. 🎨 Decided last minute to go in? Drop a comment below and let everyone know you’re heading in. ⬇️ If you know what time you’ll be there until, even better — but it’s absolutely not mandatory. 🕐 Know in advance when you’ll be in? Add your times in the comments below, and please include the time for your country so others can easily see when that is for them. For example: 🇫🇷 Paris — 10:00–12:00 🇬🇧 UK — 09:00–11:00 🇺🇸 New York — 04:00–06:00 🇺🇸 Los Angeles — 01:00–03:00 🇨🇦 Toronto — 04:00–06:00 🇦🇺 Sydney — 18:00–20:00 No agenda. No pressure. No need to be “productive.” Just artists creating together. ❤️ Last but not least… ☕🎨 We also have our Coffee & Art on Tuesday from 18:30–19:30 Paris time. ❤️ Make sure you join the right call! 😊 The Open Studio is also open at the same time, so there will be two different calls running simultaneously. ☕ Coffee & Art: Tuesday, 18:30–19:30 🎨 Open Studio: open as usual So if you’re coming for Coffee & Art, double-check that you’re clicking the Coffee & Art call. 😉 Can’t wait to see you there! ❤️

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! 🎨❤️

We’re meeting tonight from 18:30–19:30 Paris time. Same time as normal. Who’s joining? ❤️ I just want to make sure we get everyone into the same room this time! Last time, some people clicked the link but ended up in a different room by themselves, while others were in another room together. It was very strange, and it seems the link didn’t work quite as it should. And this week, someone even received an email with the wrong time… so Skool is keeping us on our toes at the moment. 😅 So tonight I’m going to check that everyone is actually in the same room and that everything is working properly. If you’re planning to join, please let me know below. And if you said you were coming but can’t make it after all, please let me know that too. Of course, if you decide at the last minute that you’d like to join, you can always just come along, even if you didn’t let me know beforehand. ❤️ 👉 Important: Go to the Calendar and click on the Coffee & Art event. Please use that link to join. I’ll close the other room so hopefully we won’t have anyone accidentally ending up somewhere else! I’ll be there about 10 minutes early, so please try to be on time if you can. I’ll check that everyone who wants to join is actually in the right room. And what shall we do tonight? 🎨 Some ideas: - Watercolour again - Quick face sketches from magazines - Try caricatures — exaggerating the features of a face. I can explain a little bit about how that works. - Or we could make something for our Fall Challenge 🍂 But if you have another idea, let me know! Hopefully everything works smoothly tonight. 🤞😂 See you later — really looking forward to creating together! ❤️

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🎨 LET’S USE THE ART SQUAD TO GROW OUR EXPOSURE ON INSTAGRAM! Post your challenge work on Instagram so more people can discover your art — and so we can easily find and support each other’s work. ❤️ SEPTEMBER ANIMAL CHALLENGE Use these hashtags: #messyartsquad #artsquadanimalchallenge LEAR FROM THE MASTERS CHALLENGE 🎨 For our Learn from the Masters Challenge — where we paint and learn from artists like Egon Schiele — use: #messyartsquad #artsquadartworldchallenge NON-CHALLENGE POSTS For your other art posts, use: #messyartsquad The more of us posting, liking and interacting, the more visibility we can create for each other. 🙌 Let’s see how much extra exposure we can create as a squad! 🚀