If you love history, creativity and studying the works/lives of other artists, you will LOVE our free book club!

The next book is The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron. This will be our first book club discussion of 2027. I would love to have you join us on January 19th @ 6pm Central.

If you have not joined the free book club, please click HERE.

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**In July we opened registration for a late May/June sculpture and printmaking retreat and it sold out immediately. We have had so much interest in this live retreat that Uptrek has generously offered me the opportunity to open a second date! It is with great excitement that I share that I will be also leading the same experience early May! First to Know registration for the May 1-8, 2027 Florence + the Countryside art retreat will open November 10th @ 10am Central.**

This past May, our Sculpture + Printmaking Retreat in Florence and the Italian countryside was everything I had hoped it would be and more. We spent our days creating, exploring Florence and one of my favorite museums in the world, learning from master printmakers, gathering around incredible meals, and making lifelong memories together.

You can watch a short video about that retreat HERE.

After such an unforgettable experience, Uptrek invited us to bring this custom retreat back for 2027. We’ve even added a few new experiences that I’m so excited to share.

The sculpture and printmaking retreats will be the only overseas art retreats I’ll be hosting in 2027, and I would absolutely love for you to join us.

If you’ve ever dreamed of making art in Italy, wandering historic streets with a sketchbook in hand, learning new techniques, and sharing the experience with a wonderful community of artists, this is for you.

Registration opens November 10th for everyone on the First to Know List.

If you’d like all the details and the opportunity to register before the public, be sure to join the list today. I can’t wait to share this adventure with you.

-Jeanne

Sometimes I find it standing back at a workshop and watching the women laugh and create together (only days before they were strangers), stitching at a cafe under a huge tree, reading a book and falling asleep to the sound of the lake hitting the shore, sleeping in after a retreat is over, the first coffee in a big mug after we return home from a trip and a week where I had long alone time with each of our children.

Sometimes I even find it online within this vast and beautiful creative community

-Jeanne

If you have always wanted to know what Wanderlust was like but have wished you could sample it first, here is your chance!

Kasia has created a FREE Wanderlust Taster series! A lesson from Wanderlust 2026 opens every Friday, and everyone creates an art journaling spread alongside it. It lets people who’ve never tried Wanderlust feel what a year with us is like.

The first lesson is now available. Sign up for free!

I am a featured artist in Let’s Face It 2027! A year long workshop all about portrait and figure work!

I am so excited to announce that I am going to be a part of the Let’s Face It 2027 Team! I am offering two portrait lessons.

To read more and register click HERE.

LET’S FACE IT is a course created and hosted by Kara Bullock. It is for anyone that loves painting portraits and figures, and/or wants to get better at creating portraits and figures! Each week in 2027, you will receive a new lesson from one of the featured artists!

These lessons are created to expose you to different ways of drawing/painting the face and figure. Artists will share our strategies, tips, and techniques that we use in order to create our portrait and figurative artwork hoping to inspire you in your own work.

Not only will you leave this course feeling more confident in your skills, but also with a whole new community of art friends that will keep supporting you from here on out!

This course offers lifetime access! All course content is downloadable, enabling you to create your own offline library of resources. We also offer an additional resource, an Artist Companion Guide! This guide is packed with valuable resources, this guide includes goal-setting worksheets, weekly PDFs with comprehensive supply lists, full-color images of reference photos and artwork, schedules, checklists, and much more.

To read more or register click HERE.

I hope to see you in class!

-Jeanne

Before heading back to Nashville we decided to take a little extension and fly over to Bellagio. Italy in the fall is always a dream! The real reason for the extra trip is we are celebrating our 28th anniversary and Kelly’s 60th birthday!

In the midst of travel I wanted to share what I am reading, watching, listening to etc.

I would love it so much if you comment on this post and share the same that you are reading, listening to, watching etc. I love hearing what is inspiring YOU!

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Nineteen years ago I had a one, five and seven year old and once they were in bed each night I would create until the early hours in the morning. I look back now on those nights and know that those hours to myself to create and finding time no matter the exhaustion the next day was what brought my creativity back to life. It all started with home, gathering, making handmade journals, and altered letters and frames. The journey to this day brings me to my knees with thankfulness for the gift of creativity, community and family.

We have built our creative business over the past 19 years. We started with a small Etsy shop, manufactured our own soft goods for many years, created and manage an online creative network with art + lifestyle workshops with over 70,000 members, sell original art + prints, a keynote speaker at large business and women’s workshops around the US, teach live art workshops in the US and abroad, collaborate with artists from all over the world, created the Creatively Made Business curriculum and my first book, The Painted Art Journal, through North Light Books/ Penguin was a best seller.

There were a million small hard and beautiful moments in the process. All of this was possible because I started before I was ready, put myself out there when I would have rather stayed private, I was supported by beautiful creatives that looked over their shoulders and took me along with them, an incredible and supportive family, my faith in Jesus Christ and YOU!

This week we are celebrating our 19th year in business month with 40% off UNLIMITED online courses*! We do not have coupons often so this is a big deal! Use code THANKYOU at checkout. This coupon does not apply to courses not started yet, have just begun or still in early registration. This coupon does not apply to past orders.

What an incredible journey personally, as an artist, as a family and with all of you! Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for taking this journey with us!

Make sure you are following my Instagram Stories over the next few days because I will be sharing words + images of this 19 year adventure PLUS a HUGE giveaway later in the week!

Thank you so much for the past 19 years! I am so excited for the next part of our journey together!

*Note Promotion Details Applicable*

If you are interested in attending this workshop please join the waitlist! Someone always needs to cancel and we would love for you to be able to join us!

Join the list HERE.

Y’ALL (I can say that now!) My inbox has been FULL today with you asking if we will do one last Experiments on Paper in Franklin, TN and the answer is YES!!

If you want to see a peek into our two back to back Experiments on Paper workshop this past weekend click HERE.

We are opening one final Experiments on Paper! Registration will open this coming Monday (September 28th). Get on the first to know list to get an email when registration is open. The workshop will be November 14-15 in Franklin, TN. I can’t wait!!

THANK YOU so much for connecting with this workshop. Nothing beats creating live with others, unlocking new ideas and leaving ready to create the work that is inside you!

This workshop has sold out very quickly 5 times this year! Get on the list HERE!

We are opening up registration for the last workshop of the year! 

The final Experiments on Paper will be November 14-15, 2026. The price is $895 with all supplies included. Join the Waitlist HERE.

Join me this fall in beautiful Franklin, TN for a two day workshop in the upper loft of DeAnn Gallery. Old wooden floors, worn brick and quaint window views will be our studio.

The focus will be Experiments on Paper! We will begin with a stitched journal and then move into printmaking. We will explore tetra pak printing, mono printing, polaroid emulsion lift, cyanotype printing and more. We will then take all of our prints on paper, along with vintage papers, and create collages with them. We will even take one of our mono prints and create a poster out of it.

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I fell deeply in love with her work when my Grandma Jeanne gifted me one of her works almost 16 years ago. A piece by Francoise was also a gift to myself after my first royalty check arrived from my book The Painted Art Journal. My pieces by her are simple compared to her high priced paintings but they are true treasures to me.

Often remembered as the only woman to ever leave Picasso, her life and work was so much more than that.

I pray I live to her age and I truly hope I am painting the whole way!