Heart-Led Artist Journey

The Heart-Led Artist Journey

Curating an Artistic Life & Loving Your Art

What is in the Heart-Led Artist Journey?

If you're at the "finding my own voice" stage of your art journey, you need space to grow at your own pace.

Building your creative identity takes time and space. You want tools to help you grow, and room to learn how to make them your own. You want a companion on your art journey to brainstorm with, to offer suggestions you can experiment with, and affirmation to help you develop your own confident, unique artistic style. That's what the content and pacing of the Heart-Led Artist Journey is all about.

In 2026, our focus is on heart-led artistic mindset. Every month, I'll share video lessons opening up my own artistic practice, with applications for you to bring these techniques and insights to your own artistic journey.
Semi-monthly I'll host live workshop sessions via Zoom. You can join and paint along with me, ask questions and share what you're learning or struggling with in your art practice.
The last week of each month is Classroom Week. This is when I open up the discussion page for you to share what you've been working on in your own art practice and receive feedback on your work from other members of the Journey program.
Also watch for guest artist interviews and lessons, product reviews, and technique highlights.

Let's be partners on this artistic journey!

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Course curriculum

1. 10/26 Introduction: Trust the Painting
2. 10/26 Trust the Painting - Isolating Highlights
3. 10/26 Trust the Painting - Version I
4. 10/26 Trust the Painting - Version II
5. 10/26 Trust the Painting - Second Layer
1. Experience: How Connection Informs my painting's beginnings
2. Studio Development: Finding the Landscape in the Intuitive Start
1. 08/26 Artist Statement: Introduction
2. 8/26 Worksheet: Write an Artist's Statement, Step by Step
3. 8/26 Artist's Statement Worksheet Walk-Through
4. 8/18/26 Live Discussion Group: Artist's Statements
5. 8/26 Bonus: Chaos Journal & Intuitive Process Demo
6. 8/26 Discussion Group Recording: Artist's Statement
1. Coupon: Inner Critic course
1. 06/26 How to Start: Finding Your Flow After a Dry Spell
2. 06/26 Worksheet: How to Start
3. 06/26 How to Start: Paint without Pressure Exercise
1. 05/26 Design Dominos Introduction
2. 05/26 Design Dominos Exercise
3. 05/26 Design Dominos (Watch After Completing the Exercise)
4. May 22: Recording of Nancy Hillis Interview: The Adjacent Possible
1. 04/26 Introduction: What is the Adjacent Possible?
2. 04/26 Using the Adjacent Possible as a Painting Strategy
3. 04/26 Using the Adjacent Possible: Wrap Up
1. 03/26 Introduction
2. 03/26 Painting Whimsy: Sketchbook Start
3. 03/26 Painting Whimsy: Part I
4. 03/26 Painting Whimsy: Part II
5. 03/26 Painting Whimsy: Part III
1. 02/26 Healthy Growth
2. 02/26 The Two Faces of Avoidance
3. Download: Healthy Growth Worksheet
4. 02/26 Assignment: Avoidance
5. Demo: Avoidance Strategies
6. 02/26 Art Business: The Role of Vulnerability
7. Classroom Week Feb 22-28
8. Creative Office Hours Feb 24
1. 01/26 Introduction
2. 01/26 Setting Intention
3. Worksheet: Choosing an Intention Word
4. 01/26 Reflection
5. 01/26 Art Business Planning
6. Worksheet: Business Planning for 2026
7. 01/26 2025 Year in Review Artist's Talk
8. Recording: Live Discussion Session Jan 21
9. Classroom Week Jan 25-31
1. 12/25 Yukon Workshop Introduction
2. 12/25 Sketchbook exercise
3. 12/25 Encouraging a State of Flow
4. 12/25 Understanding Perspective
5. 12/25 Strategy Development: Reflecting on Process
6. 12/25 Strategy Development: Scaling up
7. 12/25 Yukon Scene: Dynamic Version
8. 12/25 State of Flow Version Cont'd: Gouache Details
9. 12/25 Reflection & Development
10. 12/25 Sidebar: Comparing Yellows
11. 12/25 Dynamic Version: Mark Making
12. 12/25 State of Flow Cont'd: Linking Process to Outcome
13. 12/25 Project Evaluation and Next Steps
1. 11/25 Design Leapfrog Part 1
2. 11/25 Design Leapfrog Part 2
1. 08/25 August Topic: Your Visual Language
2. 08/25 Visual Language: Intuition Development
3. 08/25 Visual Language: Intuition Development II
1. 07/25 Free Range Play: Introduction
2. 07/25 Free Range Play: Pencil Play I
3. 07/25 Free Range Play: Pencil Play II
4. 07/25 Free Range Play: Pencil Play, Frontier Motel
5. 07/25 Free Range Play: Leading Lines (Abstract, Frontier Motel variation)
6. 07/25 Free Range Play: Misting & Masking
7. 07/25 Free Range Play: Watercolour Weaving
1. 06/25 Shoreline Study: Planning
2. 06/25 Shoreline Study: First Stage
3. 06/25 Shoreline Study: Variation
4. 06/25 Shoreline Study: Colour Development
5. 06/25 Shoreline Study: Pausing to Evaluate
6. 06/25 Shoreline Study: Darkest Values
1. 03/25 Technique Focus: Reductive Painting with Masking Fluid
2. 03/25 Reductive Painting Process: First Stage
3. 03/25 Reductive Painting Process: Second Stage
4. 03/25 Reductive Painting: Final Stage
1. 02/25 Demonstration: Part 1 - Adding Sketchy People to Heart-Led Landscapes by Jo-Marie Barlow
2. 02/25 Demonstration: Part 2 - Adding Sketchy People to Heart-Led Landscapes by Jo-Marie Barlow
1. 9/24 Developing Further: Map Your Subject Part 2
2. 9/24 Developing a Painting: Start with a First Layer
3. 9/24 Developing a Painting: Alternative First Layer
4. 9/24 Composition Warm Up Exercise
5. 9/24 Painting Development: Incorporating Techniques
6. 10/24 Application: Developing with Experimental Techniques (Oct 4)
7. 10/24 Application: Developing Form Further (Oct 4)
1. 7/24 Process: Layers using Rice Paper
2. 7/24 Process: Rice Paper Part 2
3. 7/24 Process: Rice Paper Part 3
4. 7/24 Download: Rice Paper Process & Self-Critique Questions
1. 3/24 Artist Talk: Respect Your Process
2. 4/24 Artist Talk: A Values-Laden Practice
3. 5/24 Artist Talk: Empty Hands & Expectations
4. 6/24 Lesson/Demo: Abstracted Landscape
5. 7/24 Do You Need A Critique? My Critique Horror Stories & Wins
6. 8/24 Artist Talk: Working Unfinished
7. 10/24 Artist Talk: Redefining Perspective
8. 07/25 Artist Talk: The Skills You Avoid
9. 10/25 Rejected Again! Sharing Thoughts on Artist Competitions and Rejection
1. About this Section:
2. 3/24 Experience & Process: Snow Day Intuitive Painting
3. 3/24 Process Unpacked: 3 Stages of Commitment
4. 4/24 Experience & Process: Frozen Waterfall Abstraction Process
5. 4/24 Good Design? Questions & Strategies Around Design
6. 5/24 Introduction Video: Ghost Ranch
7. 5/24 Plein Air Reflections from Santa Fe
8. 7/24 Commission Prep: Layer 1
9. 7/24 Commission Prep: Layer 2
10. 7/24 Commission Final
11. 8/24 Strawberry Series Part 1: Value Study & First Layers
12. 8/24 August 9: Strawberry Series Part 2
13. 9/24 Introduction: Design Fundamentals
14. 9/24 Design: Map Your Subject
15. 9/24 Design: Working with Mass & Shape
16. 11/24 Experience & Process: Autumn Painting Adventure
17. 05/25 Painting Process: Southwest Harbor
18. 05/25 Painting Process: Dunes in Wind
19. 05/25 Live Lesson May 2025: Italy Inspired Painting - Recording
20. 09/25 Artist Talk: Yukon Trip Painting Review
21. 09/25 Experience: Yukon Adventure
1. About this section:
2. 3/24 Product Spotlight: Comparing Multi-Pigment Violets
3. 3/24 Tidbit: Brush Care
4. 4/24 Exercise: Design Snacks
5. 5/24 Demonstration: Sky Framed Mesa
6. 5/24 Exercise: 2 Minute Sketches
7. 5/24 Lesson: Painterly Watercolour
8. 7/24 Application: Critique as Process
9. 8/24 Choosing a Colour Palette
10. 8/24 Experiments with Graphite/Black & Stencils
11. 8/24 Swatching Black
12. 8/24 Working with Graphite on Yupo
13. 10/24 Application: Developing Light & Contrast
14. 10/24 Application: Redefining Perspective (Grain Elevator Demo)
15. 11/24 Product Spotlight: Bloodstone Genuine (Nov 29)
16. 11/24 Application: Reworking Design (Nov 8)
17. 04/25 Plein Air Painting: Values Focus
18. 04/25 Download: Plein Air Painting Guide
19. 04/25 Don't Overpack! Keeping the Plein Air Kit Light
20. 08/25 Comparing Manganese Violets
21. 09/25 Strategy Maps: Working Design using Abstraction
1. 10/24 Technique Focus: Creating Luminous Darks
2. 01/25 Technique Focus: Using Your Brush 1
3. 01/25 Technique Focus: Using Your Brush Part 2
4. 01/25 Technique Focus: Using Your Brush Part 3
5. 01/25 Experimentation: Spray Watercolour
6. 01/25 Experimentation: Spray Watercolour Continued
7. 09/25 Creative Resilience Strategies: Warm Up with One Shape
8. 09/25 Technique Spotlight: Using Your Spray Bottle (Sunflower Demo)
1. About this section:
2. 6/24 Framing & Organization
3. 6/24 Photographing Your Art
4. 6/24 Photo Processing Tutorial
5. 7/24 Art Business: A Packaging Solution for Art in Transit
6. 11/24 Art Business Chat: Multiple Income Streams (Nov 15)
1. 4/24 Artist Interview: Ian Roberts
2. 6/24 Guest Artist Interview: Buffy Kaufman
3. 6/24 Demonstration: Experimental Watercolor Techniques with Buffy Kaufman
4. 11/24 Guest Artist Interview: Paul Wang Session Recording
5. 01/25 Guest Artist Interview: Jo-Marie Barlow
6. 06/25 Buffy Kaufman: California Poppies Demo
7. 07/25 Guest Artist Interview: Irit Landgraf
8. 07/25 Guest Artist Tutorial: Irit Landgraf
9. 08/25 Guest Artist Interview: Jill Williams
10. 08/25 Jill Williams: Intuitive Marsh Landscape Demo
1. About this section:
2. 3/24 Worksheet: Working in Stages
3. 4/24 Worksheet: Growth without Limits
4. 5/24 Worksheet: Understanding Expectations
5. 6/24 Worksheet: Messy Process
6. 8/24 Strawberry Series: Printable Worksheet
1. 12/24 Pre-Workshop: Techniques & Tools Overview
2. 12/24 Getting Started: Defining Abstraction
3. 12/24 Introduction
4. 12/24 Exploring Ideas: Keywords
5. 12/24 Choosing a Colour Palette
6. 12/24 Combining Colour & Technique
7. 12/24 Northern Nights: Moonspirations
8. 12/24 Taking Direction from the Painting
9. 12/24 Moonspirations: Going Further
10. 12/24 Year End Recap 2024...and what's ahead for 2025!
1. About this section:
2. 3/24 Live Q&A Recording (March 20 2024)
3. 6/24 Live Session Recording: Greece Sketchbook (June 18 2024)
4. 10/24 Abstracting as a Painting Warm Up: Workshop Recording
5. 03/25 Bonus: Artist Demo & Talk for Cazenovia Watercolor Society
6. Supplies & Tools
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7. Book Recommendations
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Angela Fehr Watercolour

The Heart-Led Artist Journey

What is in the Heart-Led Artist Journey?

Let's be partners on this artistic journey!

Course curriculum

Preview the Journey

October 2026: Trust the Painting

September 2026: Experiential Landscape Painting

August 2026: Artist Statement - Know Your Why

July 2026: Making friends with your Inner Critic

June 2026: How to Start

May 2026: Design Dominos

April 2026: Understanding the Adjacent Possible

March 2026: Artist Mindset - The Power of Whimsy

February 2026: Artist Mindset - Healthy Growth

January 2026: Artist Mindset - Reflection & Intention

Workshop: Yukon Mountain Scene Workshop (December 2025)

Project: Design Leapfrog (November 2025)

Project: Your Visual Language (August 2025)

Project: Free Range Play (July 2025)

Project: Shoreline Study (June 2025)

Project: Reductive Painting with Masking Fluid (March 2025)

Project: Adding Sketchy People to Heart-Led Landscapes (February 2025)

Project: Developing a Reference Photo Further

Project: Rice Paper

Previously Aired: Artist Talks

Previously Aired: Experience & Process Sessions

Previously Aired: Application & Tips

Previously Aired: Technique Focus

Previously Aired: Business of Art

Guest Artist Interviews & Lessons

Archive: Worksheets & Journal Prompts

Workshop: Northern Nights (December 2024)

Archive: Bonus Content

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