Art Smart ​Fresh Start

creativity + mindfulness for all

reduce stress + restore calm at home

​with four self-paced, adaptable, inclusive art lessons

​​that you can do,
anywhere, anytime,
​with your family, friends, partner or self

What's included:

* all four classes in the Art Smart
Fresh Start class pack
Mixed Media Watercolor Techniques
Mixing and Monoprints
Self-Portraits for Everyone
Forest for the Trees
(mixed media painting)

Every class comes with:

* video, pdf + audio lessons
- stop and go as you please - it's self-paced!
- use over and over and over again
- every lesson is scalable to different abilities and interests
- different modules for diverse learning styles
- tried and true process-based curriculum developed from twenty years of teaching Art

* class specific supply list
 - all supplies specific to class
- supplies overlap in the four classes
- all supplies are learning-level and easy to use at home

* environmental set up guide
- all lessons can be done at a kitchen table or solo desk top
- no need for fancy space, lighting, or materials
- you don't need much space and...
you won't make a huge mess!

* mindfulness + creativity prompts
- connect your self-expression with your humanity
- learn about the connection between creativity and stress
- learn lifelong confidence and decision making skills

*follow up lessons and suggestions
- take the techniques and materials in each class to other art making
- extra methods and ongoing ways to work with lessons

build a set of actual creative thinking skills, not just product-based steps!

* additional resources include:
- a welcome video and guide
- before and after mindfulness workbook
- Fresh Start pack supply guide
- Fresh Start pack playlist

PURCHASE FOR ONLY $47

restore calm
reduce anxiety
​ regulate uncertainty

​learn how to use art making
to reduce anxiety + restore calm,
​wherever you are.
​

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feeling a little frazzled?

did you know that you can use art making to reduce stress for yourself and your family?

are you tired of the never ending overwhelm and fatigue of life over the past two years, wanting to reduce the stress and anxiety in your household while staying on top of enrichment and self development during challenging times?

do you feel languished and creatively drained?
are you and your kids overcome by anxiety and stress on a daily basis?

are you looking for new outlets for your built up stress, that you can do alone, or with a group?

are you just so tired of stress and anxiety overwhelming your day to day life?

do you and your loved ones just need a good break?

I understand. As a parent, educator, business owner, and human...I'm with you.

I also know how the calm can come easily, and can be built into your regular daily life.

you see, artists understand a way around all this.

​and most of us, don't really think of ourselves as artists
​or able to navigate our lives using....art marking.
what if it didn't have to be that way - what if creativity and mindfulness didn't feel scary?

it is possible to live with less stress and anxiety ...it's exactly why I created Art Smart Fresh Start, because I want to help you reduce stress and restore calm through art making, individually or together

alleviate anxiety and restore calm with easy to do art lessons - designed for any skill level. to do together or create independently

PURCHASE FOR ONLY $47

Art Smart Fresh Start will help you and your family reduce stress + restore calm at home with four easy to do art lessons by showing you:

- how mindfulness and creativity work together to regulate anxiety and stress

- how making art slows down our nervous system and allows us to reset overwhelm

- how to navigate real world challenges and uncertainty by working through process-based art making

It’s not uncommon to be feeling some form of stressed out, anxious, worn out, depleted, and a little more than uncertain about the future.
It can be hard to focus when those thoughts are overwhelming. It's natural for all of us to feel anxiety and uncertainty, and those feelings can make us really tired and overwhelmed. And then, we end up burnt out.

restoration, calm, patience, focus, peace and clarity can be found.

in Art Smart Fresh Start, we take all of those feelings of overwhelm and work them out,
step by step, through process-based art lessons.
Every lesson is designed to be done by people of any age, any skill level.
Lessons are self-paced, and made for typical at home art supplies.

Art Smart Fresh Start helps you reduce stress by:
- addressing overwhelm - preparation to take it step by step, in small strides,
with attainable goals, creating self confidence at any stage of life
- reducing anxiety - learn how mindfulness + creativity work together to reduce anxiety, how art making is an outlet for anxiety + stress, a coping mechanism to help regulate
- navigating uncertainty - work through being in the process of the moment when outcomes are uncertain, preparing us for real world decision making and creative challenges

imagine a home with reduced stress, restored calm, and balanced energy.

​with Art Smart Fresh Start, we want you to do something fresh and feel good together.
Crank up your creativity skills that you haven't flexed in awhile — or maybe didn't even know that you have!
Time is precious and you don't want to miss out on time with your kids, together, to calm down and turn on your wholebrain thinking
...all while brushing up on and creating creative skills!

and don't worry...you don't have to have
any art making skills 
or fancy art supplies
to make this happen.

START TODAY FOR $47

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"there is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

martha graham, dancer, choreographer, artist

ok...but what is going on with Art Smart Fresh Start??

Art Smart Fresh Start is a four pack of art lessons focused on building creative skill sets while teaching mindfulness skills to combat stress and anxiety. Lessons are self-paced and self-implemented, making it easy to integrate Art Smart into your lifestyle.
​You can use a basic set of at-home art supplies - even if you have small space or your home is your AirBnb for the weekend.

Use the videos, pdfs, audio, supply lists,
and more in each lesson to create at your own pace, with who you want, anytime, anywhere.

Every Art Smart Fresh Start lesson covers a specific topic. Every topic is process-based with intentional outcome, demonstrating a variety of techniques and materials used together to explore our natural inclination for experimentation, innovation, and free-flowing implementation. Not only are we gaining technical know-how, we are building creative thinking skills along the way.

Along with every lesson comes a set of mindfulness prompts developed over twenty years of experience guiding others in their own creativity. These prompts guide us in reflecting on our mindfulness and creativity, connecting our wellness with our creative action.

When you purchase Art Smart Fresh Start you will be sent a registration link to access the class. Get started with the first lesson right away.*
Art Smart is accessible, self-paced, and easy to implement.
You will use your own supplies - and trust me, it's flexible, not messy, and easily implemented at home or wherever you're creating together. ​We use the unique approach of learning virtually to explore in ways we would not be able to do all together in person - and, best of all, any age artist of any ability can do this!

GET STARTED TODAY FOR $47

what does Art Smart Fresh Start come with?

multiple formats to learn from so there's no anxiety

video
pdf
audio

stop and go flexibility so there's no overwhelm

do as you can in small steps
do on your time
​use these lessons over and over and over ​

accessible, tried and true process based material

almost any age individual
at any skill set
no need to be uncertain about if you (or your partner or your kids) can do this

opportunity to slow down and truly spend time together

use your creative skills to calm anxiety together
without a reason or deadline or pressure
learn to keep calm and make calm

START TODAY FOR $47

mindfulness with Art Smart Fresh Start

How to use creative decision making skills and trust emergent ideas

How to explore new materials and techniques through process-based experimentation

How to use familiar and introductory materials to develop fine motor skills

How to establish the process of ideation, creation and completion

How the insights and choices of learning artists are valued in the creative process

How to keep the expectation away from the end result

How to allow for the discovery of individual creative self agency

How to make decisions and executions from a place of established confidence

...Complete with all the easy to use lessons and resources you need to make this enriching and easy for you!

with each Art Smart Fresh Start lesson, you get:

Supply List ($9 value)
includes approx budget and recommendations

Environment Set Up ($9 value)
- ways to prepare your work space for the materials in the lesson

Video Lesson ($33 value)
- overlay
-see techniques hands on and close up

Pdf Lesson ($19 value)
- written and pictorial
- conceptualize entire process

Audio Only Lesson ($19 value)
- especially helpful for staying off screen
- use to for ongoing lesson practice

Mindfulness + Creativity Prompts ($19 value)
- guidance for how the art making procss is workign to reduce stress and restore calm

Follow Up Lessons + Suggestions ($9 value)
- use as skills grow

$117 x 4 = $468 and we are doing it for just $47?!

isn't that kind of a lot for $47?? Yes, yes it is. But it’s there because I think you deserve it. Art education is a basic right, and we all deserve accessible, high quality art enrichment for ourselves and our families so we can become a better world. We all really need ways to relax, reduce our stress and uncertainty, and build stamina within ourselves. Self expression is a tool for a better wold, and that starts with high quality art enrichment being accessible for all.

PURCHASE TODAY FOR $47

what does each Art Smart Fresh Start lesson cover?

Art Smart Fresh Start is a digital class that is self-paced, with easy-to-implement videos, pdfs, and audio recordings so that you have multiple ways to connect with art making and mindfulness.

I made it super simple for you. I want you to be able to use Art Smart right away, and over and over again.

All projects involve a simple set of at-home-friendly art supplies. Every lesson comes with a supply list so you know what you want to have on hand, and all four lessons in this pack overlap supplies.

Best of all, you have access to all video and audio recordings of the lessons, along with additional study pages and bonus materials for self-paced learning.

These are tools you can use over and over and over for yourself and family

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My goal with Art Smart Fresh Start is simple:

I don't want your life to feel consumed by overwhelming anxiety and stress.

I want you to restore calm and reduce overwhelm using practices
I've developed over twenty years of teaching art making and self discovery

I don't want you to feel anxiety so I made multiple formats to learn in

I don't want this to be overwhelming for you so I designed it with stop and go flexibility

I want you to feel you can navigate uncertainty so I used my favorite
tried-and-true, process-based material that anyone can do 

I want you to slow down and create together so you have built-in calm in your life
It is possible for you to have a new daily way to:
 - reduce stress and overwhelm
- restore calm
- regulate anxiety
- address uncertainty

...all while building creative skills together
art making is a way to:
- practice mindfulness
- express yourself
- give gift to world that's just yours

GET STARTED TODAY FOR $47