Creative Resource Library
So you don't call yourself an artist, yet here you find yourself on this creative resource page all about art making and creative expression. Well then, you might be in the right place.
I’ve put together these guided tutorials and low-barrier prompts to help you start engaging with creativity in your own time, space, and as you feel ready. This isn't therapy, but it is a gentle way to start playing with art when you aren't sure where to begin.
Jump straight to a category below:
Painting | Drawing | Mixed Media & Collage | Print Making | Construction | Process & Practice
Exploring Paint
Building confidence starts with learning basic techniques. Some call them basic; I call them foundational because without them, it’s hard to understand a medium. But more than that, these are just fun, relaxing, and grounding. Here, it’s not about what you make, but how you spend your time sinking into the sensory aspects rather than the end product. And if you make something and decide you hate it? That’s totally fine, too.
Exploring Draw & Mark Making
You don’t need to know how to ‘draw’ to make marks. That’s actually how drawing happens, but making marks. These low-barrier activities are designed to quiet the inner critic and help you move a pencil, crayon, or tool across the page just to see what happens, without any pressure to get proportions right.
BLOG: Frottage: Exploring the world through texture
BLOG: Abstract Mark Making & Homemade Dyes
VIDEO: Scribble Drawing Process for when you are stuck
VIDEO: Simple Mark Making Activity for overthinkers
VIDEO: Crumple Paper Art for when you are frustrated
VIDEO: Teabag Art Process
VIDEO: Guided Bilateral Drawing Process for Grounding & Soothing
Join the 30 Day Drawing Prompt Challenge
Exploring Construction
Turning everyday household scraps and paper packaging into functional, tactile treasures. This is about building structural pieces with your hands, proving you don't need fancy art supplies to create something uniquely yours.
BLOG: Paper Bag Journals
BLOG: Upcycled Textiles Accessories
BLOG: Altered Books for Gratitude
VIDEO: Junk Instruments
VIDEO: Free Form Weaving using Recycled Materials
VIDEO: Recycled Paper Beads
VIDEO: Paper Bag Document Wallet
VIDEO: Turn Fabric Scraps into Flowers
VIDEO: Mini Journals
Exploring Mixed Media & Collage
Working with your hands using everyday materials, old books that need a new life, or digital spaces like Canva. It’s tactile, resourceful, and gives you a chance to play without a blank-page panic and think outside the box.
BLOG: Make a Digital Vision board with Canva
BLOG: Creating a Vision Board
BLOG: Altered Books for Gratitude
Exploring Print Making
Working with your hands using everyday materials, old books that need a new life, or digital spaces like Canva. It’s tactile, resourceful, and gives you a chance to play without a blank-page panic and think outside the box.
BLOG: Gel Plate Printing Image Transfer
BLOG: Soft Impressions: Exploring Gel Plate Printing
VIDEO: Gel Plate Tutorials
Exploring Process & Practice
For when you want to use creativity as a tool to pause, breathe, and untangle your thoughts, emotions, dreams and desires. These sessions focus entirely on the process—allowing yourself to show up as you are, without rushing toward a "finished product” and letting the process unfold in it’s own time.
BLOG: Mapping Intentions: Crafting your Vision
BLOG: Visible Mending: Repair through slow stitching
VIDEO: Grounding Through Nature & Creativity