...excited to share!

Hello friends!  I wish you the the most happy of happiest Holidays to YOU!!

I'm really excited to share with you my NEW WEBSITE!  Check it out here.  I love that all my activity is in one place and that things are a little easier to find.   Still working on some little things, but I hope you'll visit and take a look around.

MY BRAND NEW WEBSITE!

...our ARTFULLY INSPIRED LIFE 2016...

I'm really most excited about the upcoming 2016 ARTFULLY INSPIRED LIFE CLASS that starts on January 1, 2106.  This is the third year of creating an heirloom art journal with a  fabulous group of enthusiastic artist who have already signed up.  If you haven't joined us yet, it's going to be the BIGGEST and BEST yet!!  Watch my fun video and check out the details below.  I hope you'll come and play with us!

ALL NEW for the NEW YEAR!
Artfully Inspired Life 2016
with Joanne Sharpe

$75 for 12 giant months of art and letter making!

(It’s just $6.25 a month to feed your creative soul!)

Register now on the Ruzuku site for $75

Get your seat and supply list with INSTANT ACCESS

LESSONS START January 1, 2016

THIS 12 MONTH CLASS gets better every year and 2016 will include:

• 48 BIG JAM PACKED VIDEOS! (4 videos each month)
• 24 ART THEMED daily journaling pages with grids and creative designs
• 12 INSPIRATIONAL ART illustration lessons mastering the “art of the word”.
• 12 MIXED MEDIA TECHNIQUE pages exploring new ideas every month.
• And, wait for it…….a 12 NEW ALPHABET LESSONS, one new every month to “SHARPE-N” your personal lettering skills! 
• TEACHER CRITIQUE! In addition to monitoring, commenting and enjoying your posted work in the networking groups, Joanne will offer one personal email coaching sessions for EACH STUDENT during the year. Yes, she is CRAZY for her students! 
• Monthly ARTSTUFF PRIZE DRAWINGS with great giveaways!
• New ART FRIENDS networking groups in the classroom and a private Facebook page.
• Class is hosted on the Ruzuku platform. When you register, you will be invited to join the class then set up your own personal email and password for easy, in and out access every time.
• CLASSROOM REMAINS OPEN WITH FOREVER ACCESS! Create at your own pace, on your own time to make a gorgeous art journal to cherish.

I hope you’ll join us for a fabulous New Year filled with awesome art and friendship!

...come play with Jane and me!!! There's a big giveaway too!!!

So excited for this workshop to start tomorrow!  The art is incredible.  Combine beautiful imagery, sassy quotes and a new alphabet with TWO teachers, and you're in heaven!  (In USD it's $37.50 for each teacher!  That's just nuts!) You can join now and follow along with us in real time.  Head on over to Jane's BLOG for the giveaway details.  You really don't want to miss this class, as Jane says WE NAILED IT!!!

See you there!  Here's the link: REGISTER NOW!

...mixed media fabric play

Have you seen this yet?  

My sweet friend Rebekah Meier recently launched an incredible mixed media art and fabric line of products.  She's taken all the guess work out of sizing, substrates and materials to create creative mixed media textile art.  These products are easily available at JoAnn Fabrics and Micheals Stores nationwide.  The Fabric Elements collection includes pre-cut fabric, stencils, paper, wools, flags, banners and more.

Show here is my favorite product in the line,   the tone on tone white fabric that I painted with DyeNaFlow dyes.  In preparing this mini quilt I painted a flower image over the words and the messages instantly appeared!  It was like a treasure hunt!

I then used my new BERNINA Q20 machine to free motion quilt aaround the images with a gold thread.  As I completed each step, the visual actually appears THREE layers on a single fabric, you see 1)  the white lettering, 2) the painted flowers and then 3) the free motion stitching outlines.

You know how much i love COLOR, so I added Rebekahs dotted fabric as a border.  

It really is nice and straight!!

Head on over to FABRIC ELEMENTS and check out the entire line. 

 Visit Rebekah's blog for tons of fun ideas

 and enjoy her beautiful art work, she's amazingly talented.  

So proud of you Rebekah and your incredible vision!!

....do you like FREE STUFF???

How about a FREE ONLINE LETTERING CLASS??? No, I mean it, really FREE!!

Let's get whimsical!!  With gratitude and appreciation for making my book "The Art of Whimsical Lettering" a best seller I have just launched an ABSOLUTELY FREE online class with my book.  For the next 12 months (October 2015-September 2016) I will prepare video lessons straight from the pages of the book. Do you love it??!!  Come on and join us in "The Art of Whimsical Lettering Book Club"!! 

Whether you are one of my fabulous friends and students (from online classes or other teaching venues) or a brand newbie to the craft of hand lettering, you'll find oodles of new ideas as we explore the pages of the book with fun projects on video.  If you have my book you are ready to go!  

The class is hosted on Ruzuku.com with all of my other online classes.  Simply click on this link to enroll.  You just need to enter your email and a password and you're in!
 THE ART OF WHIMSICAL LETTERING BOOK CLUB FREEEEE online class!  

Pick up a copy purchase for someone as a GIFT!!  Order your book on Amazon and join us for a year long celebration of transforming our own handwriting into a personalized hand lettering style.  
GET THE BOOK!

See you in the the Club!
joanne

....lettering AND faces with Jane AND joanne!!!!!

Have you seen THIS scoop??  I had the ultimate whimsical week creating an epic online class together with the gorgeous Jane Davenport when i was in Australia last May.  This is really something very special.  Check it out!  Really hope you can join us, it's sure to be "art life" changing!

INFO and REGISTRATION LINK: 

 "MISS QUOTED" online class with Joanne Sharpe and Jane Davenport

...just a little art note.....

...my Instagram photo journal.....

I am loving putting my art on Instagram each day!  Come follow and  share in this colorful journey with me: https://instagram.com/joannesharpe/
 Here are some of my favorites these past two weeks.......and there's MORE over on Instagram.  See you there!