6 fun, colorful projects released through the year, each one offering clear steps, bright ideas, and creative play.
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A Little Adventures course — a curious collection of illustrations created with love from beginning to end. In this adventure, you’ll learn to illustrate a misunderstood monster that tries to blend in but was never meant to. You’ll build bold backdrops, paint clever camouflage, and play with pattern and color to bring this lovable beast to life — part hide-and-seek, part self-portrait, and full of secret stories.
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A Little Adventures course — a curious collection of illustrations created with love from beginning to end. In this adventure, you’ll learn to build a watercolor cairn that feels both sturdy and full of story. You’ll add tiny cottages, tuck in leaves, and weave small surprises into your stack of painted stones — a mix of color, balance, and imagination.
A Little Adventures course — a curious collection of illustrations created with love from beginning to end. In this adventure, you’ll paint a bird’s-eye studio scene filled with brushes, palettes, color tabs, and the small tools that brighten a creative table. You’ll follow along as we build the illustration with light pencil lines and a rainbow of watercolor — a playful snapshot of the place where ideas begin.
In this adventure, you’ll learn to illustrate a graceful, strong-willed heroine inspired by Delftware and willow-pattern porcelain. You’ll build her story with confident lines, thoughtful patterns, and layers of blue — a blend of calm, detail, and imagination.
A Little Adventures course — a curious collection of illustrations created with love from beginning to end. In this adventure, you’ll paint a winged creature and a tucked-in botanical, each carrying the faint promise of a hidden message, along with a ribbon meant to offer a tender, poetic note — all inspired by the charm of a vintage embroidered badge. Layered watercolor, with a little pencil or ink when it feels right, creates the look of stitched cloth and adds a sense of story to every edge.
A Little Adventures course — a curious collection of illustrations created with love from beginning to end. In this adventure, you’ll paint a tiny treasure framed in a folk-art-inspired border — a favorite button, seashell, charm, or keepsake turned into a story worth saving. You’ll use brush-built shapes, gentle symmetry, and a simple palette to create a painted memento that feels personal and full of character.
Learn to create illustrations of vintage dollhouses with a lived-in, modern vibe inside and out using a trusty mechanical pencil, dreamy watercolor layers, and thoughtful details.
Learn to create detailed illustrations with tried-and-true watercolor techniques infused with mixed-media play in illustrations filled with wee faeries, wooded scenery, and forest foraging.
Learn to enhance your creative skillset with detailed and dimensional illustrations of lush greenery, bounties of blossoms, and intricate garden benches and sheds.
Learn to illustrate a menagerie of adorable animals with a mechanical pencil, tried-and-true watercolor techniques, and a big dose of imagination.
Learn to illustrate wild-haired girls with watercolors, easy mixed-media techniques, and start-to-finish character development.
Learn to illustrate well-loved aprons with watercolors, easy mixed-media techniques, and vibrant palettes, creating intricate details from start to finish.
Learn how to tell stories and share emotion with color in ways words can’t.
Learn how to illustrate graceful bonsai trees in beautiful pottery, as well as detailed organic elements, through easygoing breakdown exercises and start-to-finish projects.
Learn how to create a whimsical, up-in-the-sky mixed-media collage using pencil, watercolors, patterned paper, and engaging breakdown exercises.
Learn to create stunning start-to-finish watercolor illustrations infused with bold colors using extensive breakdown exercises, studies in pattern, texture, and mark-making.
Learn to illustrate my favorite character, Pippity Poe with watercolors, easy mixed-media assembly and mark-making followed by a vibrant, layered start-to-finish illustration.
Learn how to illustrate miniature murals filled with gritty texture, bitty beings, and giant wings. This course includes practice exercises, in-depth videos, and a coordinating workbook, and three start-to-finish video illustration projects.
Learn to explore character building in a new, inky direction with lessons focused on how to make subtle, but detailed shifts in your work in brand-new sparkly ways!
Learn to mix thoughtful watercolor techniques, intricate mark-making and delicate details to cultivate a series of spirit mamas filled with their love of their favorite spirit animals.
Learn to illustrate a series of astrologically adorable girls with a pencil, watercolors, helpful breakdown exercises, and step-by-step handouts, plus so much more!
Learn to add color, new techniques, tips, tricks, and imagination to your creative practice! Using a limited color palette, you'll draw and paint hedgehogs and rhinos.
Learn to add color, new techniques, tips, tricks, and imagination to your creative practice! Using a limited color palette, you'll draw and paint lions, an octopus, kittens, giraffes, and gnomes
Learn to add color, new techniques, tips, tricks, and imagination to your creative practice! Use a limited color palette to draw and paint sloths, moths, robots, ponies, and polar bears.
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Step into my studio and take a seat next to me at my art table. Let’s talk color inspiration! In this ARTCRAFT collection, I’ll share with you how I play with my favorite Daniel Smith watercolors to deliver stunning hand-crafted color combinations.
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Ever wonder what ABC illustrations got lost in the gutters of my book, The Art of Creative Watercolor? Well, here they are - all in one place! A ready-to-print PDF that you can add to your stash of class handouts to inspire you to create even more colorful goodness!
Want a quick reference tool to practice color-mixing or to be inspired to fill the pages of your own ABC journal? This ready-to-print PDF contains a quick and colorful reference of all the Inspiration Blocks on the ABC pages of my book, The Art of Creative Watercolor. Just download, print and add to your stash of class handouts to inspire you to create even more colorful goodness!
A curious collection of illustrations, created with love from beginning to end.
In this watercolor illustration print-and-play packet, you will be able to explore the vibrant world of a girl with a rainbow brain. With meditative drawing exercises, color drenched watercolor washes, and endless illustrative possibilities, this PDF will inspire your creativity and allow you to create stunning artworks at your own pace.