Gardening through Art

❀ ​​Joyful Plant's Gardening through Art can help you strengthen your imagination with sensual natural bliss. ​​

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The human experience can nurture the collective balance of: creative
inspiration, health, yoga, family balance, delicious meals, satisfying love life, lifelong learning, self value of worthiness, successful gardening, seed exchange, and global sisterhood.

Everyone could be a prolific artist and eat seasonal food from a healthy garden.

Do you ever feel like you are:

• suppressing your zeal to be artistic? 

• craving creativity that sparks natural joy?

• desiring a passion-filled career as a professional artist?

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Imagine: 

• feeling grounded and uplifted.

• making botanical art that is purposeful and refreshing.

• directing creative focus to generate harmony and then income.

• optimizing health and restoring wholeness in your life​.

• creating reproducible art prints and fashion.

• immersing yourself in art that builds your personal brand!

I designed the Joyful Plant Method to help artists revive an artistic arousal. 

My Gardening Through Art course invites you into nature’s innate imagination.
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If you have been feeling suppressed, but would like to be prolific, this course is for you. ◡̈  

Joyful Plant Presents
Gardening Through ArtA 12-week Artist Course

Gardening through Art is a seasonal course for artists. The strategies I have developed help artists expand practical creative imagination while exploring botanical art. After each session participants feel more refreshed and their passion for art is reignited. Artists of all levels of experience are invited to explore creative skills and build a portfolio that can be used as a source of income for themselves  and their families. 

Within our time together here are some things we will focus on:

• Botanical photography and drawing to create a foundation 

• Painting and printmaking to foster meditative observations

• Discovering your niche to build your brand as a professional artist

• Seasonal activities in the garden, kitchen, and studio to help with health & inspiration.

• Weekly watercolor meditation for group botanical observation. 

• Creative interpretation of live plants and their two-dimensional representations.

Deliverables:

• Pro~Artist Coaching

  • 1-on-1 Mentor Support (Voxer) 

  • Painting/Printmaking/Garden/Food Q & A 

  • Art Parties:  In-person or remote retreats

• Weekly Watercolor Coaching 

  • Botanical Observation​

• Curriculum Video Lessons: Gardening Through Art

  • 6 Themes 

  • Seasonal Choices​

• Printmaking Press Workshop (Monthly)

• Garden Journal Templates for Success

• Community group “Gardening Through Art” 

• Life Recipe Design Consultation (seasonal illustrated recipe books, global authorship)

• Guided Planner: 

  • Worksheets for fun, creative activities for studio, kitchen and garden

  • Engaging art activities for all-ages flow, interactive embodying your spirit’s unique style

• Life Recipe Design (Seasonal Recipe Book)

• Voxer Broadcast: Art Meditations

• Email support ​

This program can be accessed any time of year.

• Independent study: year-round

• Summer Cohort: May - July

• Autumn Cohort: September - November

Let’s make art!

Course Themes:

• ​Garden Planning

• Nature Photography

• Botanical Line Drawing

• Botanical Printmaking

• Floral Watercolor

• Life Recipes

  • Bonus: ​Therapeutic Arts

Why Gardening through Art?

FAQ

Q: Who is this program for? 
A: This program is for fun, creative lifelong-learners of art and gardening.

Q: Who is this program not for?
A: This program is not for people who are not ready to roll up their sleeves to play with plants on paper.

Q: Do I need to have any level of experience to begin? 
A: Any level of artistic skill is sufficient to begin. The important focus is the open-mindedness and dedication to become prolific through natural exploration. 

Q: What shall I expect from the results of this course? 
A: Participants feel more harmony in their creative lives with participation. A dedication to art and the garden will improve your proficiency with various art media as well as plants we can use to enhance our lives. Many participants become professional artist with the work they create in this course.

Are you ready to make art?

Let us begin.

In peace,

Elise

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