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52 weeks of artistic challenges 
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Welcome to your 52 Weeks of Artistic Challenges!
A full year of playful, thoughtful prompts designed to keep your creativity active, steady, and joy-filled — one small challenge at a time.
Inside this digital booklet, you’ll find weekly prompts that help you experiment, loosen up, notice the world around you, and create without pressure. Whether you work in 5-minute bursts or full studio sessions, each challenge meets you exactly where you are.
There’s no “right way” to use this guide — flip through, start at Week 1, or jump to whatever ignites something in you. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s momentum, curiosity, and showing up for your art again and again.
What’s Inside
• 52 weekly art challenges
• A mix of abstract, observational, playful, and thought-provoking prompts
• Encouragement to build consistency (without overwhelm)
• Inspiration you can return to all year long
Your link to your download is HERE — just click to begin.
Here’s to a year of creativity, exploration, and tiny artistic triumphs.

 If you want more support…This mini-course is just a tiny taste of the creative momentum we build every week inside The Creative Collective — my $9/month art membership filled with fun prompts, encouragement, and a community that actually shows up for each other.
No pressure, no pomp. Just possibilities.


Take your time, hit pause when you need to, and most of all - have fun! 
Every abstract you make is uniquely yours.
 
I can’t wait to see what you create!
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  • home
  • about
  • CLASSES / COURSES
    • the creative collective
    • Ride the Wave
    • Art Camp for Grown-Ups
    • Pastel Class - Zoom
    • Pastel Class - Zoom
    • Pastel Class - Autumn Bliss
  • Free Instruction
    • Simplify Your Process: 5 Steps to Creating a Series of Art
    • FREE 7-Daily Art Challenges
    • FREE Vegan & Cruelty-Free Art Supply Guide
    • Watercolor Sky Instruction
  • Testimonials
  • portfolio
    • Nature Pastel Paintings
    • Pastel Paintings
    • rescued
    • abstracts
    • coupon queens
    • Too Confrontational for Amsterdam
    • revenge
    • the yellow wallpaper
    • ladies who lunch
    • non-literal self portraits
    • orange dove project - a radical pet-a-dogy
    • the bride's dilemma
    • flora paintings
  • Art is Hard. Make it Anyway.