Teaching again on Wellspring 2020!

Hi, servus and thanks so much for stopping by today!

The aim of this post is - as the banner above already tells - to let you know of the launch of this year's Wellspring School at Mixed Up Creative Academy.

I've been part of this programme already last year and I loved that it was a huge success and students really loved learning about many different ways of having art and creative processes become part of their self care and enhancing mental well-being.

This year Wellspring 2020 is back, brand new and with more classes from Mixed Up Creative Academy's dedicated tutors and some expert guests again to grow your pool of tools, projects and ways for better self care and wellspring through art and creativity. And I am of course so proud to be part of this again as this has always been a matter close to my heart.

I've started noticing what art practice, specific painting and drawing exercises and enhancing creative abilities in general to express yourself in your art can do for your well-being (especially when it comes to dealing with everyday life's speed and stress nowadays) almost twenty years ago when I started teaching arts at secondary school to ten to eight-teen year olds and throughout the years I have been delving deeper into that topic and have come up with two classes for Wellspring 2020 that I hope will be as much help for you as it obviously has been for myself and most of my pupils throughout my almost twenty years of teaching!

Check out additional info and sign up over here:

Wellspring 2020

There's an early bird price again (the offer lasts until midnight 19th April), which is 69 Euro and saves you 14 Euro compared to the regular price of 86 Euro. So don't miss out on this offer!

General sale and registrations close on 31st May! 

The course runs from 1st May through to 18th August and there will be 18 weeks filled to the brim with uplifting, empowering, thought-provoking and life-affirming lessons - two of which have been carefully put together for you with all my heart and experience from two decades as an arts teacher with a bit of a psychological background - so I hope you will like these alongside all the other fantastic lessons from my colleagues!

Here's a little sneak peek of what awaits you in one of my two lessons...

...and this is an appetiser of what awaits you in general when it comes to projects and creative exercises:

We will also once more have a closed facebook group as a safe place for you to get in touch with your dedicated tutors and student fellows.

You will of course have life time access to the course and there come free printables with the course as well as downloadable PDF files or videos of all the lessons.

So make sure you don't miss the early bird price offer and become part of the

  Wellspring 2020 

course and community at Mixed Up Creative Academy! 

Hope to see you over there! 

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia

xxx

I will be teaching online this winter at...

...the highly inspiring Savvy Supply School at Mixed Up Creative Academy! 

Savvy Supply School is a guided learning programme running for 12 weeks. It is on sale from today and will start on 3rd January. It includes 26 projects that will show you how to create mixed media art and have a lot of creative fun with supplies most of you count among their basics and have at home already, some of which you would maybe even never have thought of using in a mixed media project!

I am not only very proud and happy to be one among these amazing, artsy instructors and sharing a fully narrated video class I have made for you...

...but also really love the idea behind Savvy Supply School; using what you already have in new inventive and savvy ways instead of always buying the latest mixed media products...which isn't anything bad of course - I love to allow myself to some new product here and there too and love taking on new techniques with these... but I found I have way too many different things in my products stash already to really make good use of all of them. And honestly there is nothing more frustrating to unearth a dried out pot of something useful and fun that I bought and just forgot I had because I have been buying too much new stuff in the meantime and thus forgot to come back to it.

And also often it does not have to be the fancy, new (and sometimes expensive) stuff that you need to use or own to be part of the latest mixed media trends.

Creating art really is about using our brains and being "inventive" and happily playful in one or the other way, finding ways to use what we have at hand in more than just one way and nurturing ones soul during the creative process and enjoying the satisfying feeling that comes from ending up with something that does not look as if it has been created using "cheap" or "ordinary" stuff or maybe even trash (like I did with my project) - but instead looks magical and makes your friends and followers wonder how on Earth you have achieved this amazing effect, that divine surface texture or what it actually IS that you have created your piece of art from, right?

I will not give away the secret of what it is that I have used, but I am allowed to share this sneak peek with you and maybe you can already guess some of the savvy supplies shown here... ;)

I only can tell you so much when it comes to the project I am teaching: "from trash to treasure" is the motto behind this make and - as is the case with most of my art - it is highly textural and combines things you can find in every household with one or the other little found object treasure from your stash and a savvy (and really cheap) way to create your own "mixed media speciality texture product".

There's about forty five minutes video - showing me doing the whole project from start to finish and explaining everything you need to know to use my ideas and savvy supplies to create your own assemblage art pieces. I am already very excited and can't wait to share my class with you! ;)

The deets:

This is what you will get for the price of 65 Euro/£55 - or if you use the

  early bird discount code CNSSS20

(that will expire on 30th November and will give you a 20% discount) just 52 Euro/£44: 26 inspiring savvy supply projects (i.e. 17 video and 9 detailed step by step tutorials) - that means you're paying the ridiculously cheap amount of 2 Euro per project idea and class - which I definitely call a bargain (well, honestly I would call it a bargain still at the original price of 65 Euro as the whole team have been putting a lot of time, love and labour alongside their uniquely inspiring creativity into their projects and classes)!

You will also love the variety of the projects and surprising supplies used! I promise! 

So do not hesitate: copy the discount code above and use this link HERE (or click on the Savvy Supply School banner above) to hop over to Mixed Up Creative Academy - 

there you will find more information on supplies needed, the idea behind this special school plus a short video showing the projects' sneak peeks in more detail and explaining what Savvy Supply School is all about. I hope to see you there in January!!!!

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia

xxx