As I began Women Create Weekly, I could find all sorts of resources online to teach kids art.
People are asking all the time on facebook… “Any recommendations of Art Lessons for my kids?”

People enthusiastically share experiences their kids have.

Children love art.
What about the moms?
The tired, well-intentioned moms who sometimes are falling apart at the seams.
Taking care of children for hours and hours, and days and days, and years and years.

Do you know what isn’t a popular search? Art classes for moms. Online art classes for women.

I wondered if that meant I shouldn’t try this endeavor. I should go where the path is well-worn, right?

Maybe I shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Sure there are art companies out there, with libraries of thousands of videos at the touch of a button.

Here’s a problem I see: you’ll NEVER be as good as the expert bird watercolorist. You’ll likely NEVER be as good as the quilter who has been doing this for 40 years. You don’t have 10,000 hours to become as good as they are. But… that doesn’t mean you can’t create art that means something.

What I offer is a little different. You see, I thrive off of connection. So all my classes? They are LIVE. I get to see your struggles and successes REAL-TIME. We rejoice together and we work through it together.

I’m not a professional watercolorist, I’m not a life-long quilter. But I DO know art, and how to lead you through a project together. As an art graduate, and child of an amazing artist, I know a LOT. And I want to share it all with you.

THIS, my friend, is where my heart is.

Three years ago I truly believed I was a bad mom.

Lots of personal development and creativity have completely shifted that for me. Creating saved me. I now KNOW I am a good mom. I have always been a good mom, I just didn’t see it.

Taking time to create has healed my heart and soul, and helps me show up happier and more productive to my busy family.

I want to bring this light and joy and hope and possibility to WOMEN, to MOTHERS… because life can be soul-sucking sometimes, you know? What I’m doing is teaching women to make TIME for themselves through creating art… that is soul-filling and REAL. It is the absolute best thing I can do to make my mark on this world. I am already seeing women changing their lives because of the skills they are learning with me.

You want to feel more FUN?
More JOY?
More POSSIBILITY?
More CURIOSITY?

Come have fun doing art with us. Doodle, watch youtube, sign up for a local class. Anything. Do it.

Do the art… not for your kids, but for YOU. Because my friend, YOU matter. YOU are important.

Don’t do it for them.

It’s okay to make beautiful things.
Don’t do it for them.

It’s okay to tidy a corner of your room.
Breathe in the cleanliness to your bones.
Don’t do it for them.

It’s okay to make sweeping colorful letters and shapes on a page.
Let your heart leap with joy that your hand can be so steady.
Don’t do it for them.

It’s okay to choose just the right colors.
Capture your somber mood just perfectly.
Don’t do it for them.

Do it for YOU. Let the order breathe life into your soul, let the colors sing to your heart, let the sunshine warm layers underneath that have been dormant for far too long.

You deserve to make art too.
Do it for you.

 

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