The Art Garden is a year long subscription Facebook based group that contains all of Mandys courses -
....and the new courses as she makes them
Hours and of hours of Livestreams * Edited Digital Courses * Emails Sequences * Pdfs
As more and more workshop videos, courses and Facebook groups are being created -
it has become unweildy - and a bit hard to find what you need in amongst it all
So over the coming months - the Art Garden is getting an upgrade
scroll down to see more about the whole restructure -
The short story is that its exciting...and is aimed at giving you the best and easiest experience in learning
The online group came about after I had built the real Art Garden Gallery in Beverley Western Australia.
As a multidisciplinary artist for over 40 years who has had many galleries -
this latest gallery contains both an inside and an outside area
It houses workshops,
an area to sculpt in
the whole thing is a fabulous vegetable garden
a huge painting space where you can splash crap everywhere with free abandon
somewhere to make paint ... which is fundamentally smearing glue and colour on everything... and yourself
and when you clean it all up it looks fabulous
Because - true creativity doesnt niche down into one tiny technique ..... it is unbounded and expanding
It takes on all forms ... in many mediums
and it works best when you cross over and mix it up
So when I started making online art courses and workshop books -
I knew that the ultimate course would contain all sorts of different mediums ...and take on all forms....
and I had this vision for a multi disciplinary art group that IS AMAZING
UPDATE TO TODAY
Well they say genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
too true
and at this point I have barely left watercolour...to do a good course takes ages
and just at the point where I was going to finally stop making watercolour courses and
publicly launch the first acrylic painting course.....
I started developing a new course and workbook in watercolours ...
and I have to do it because it is going to be the best one yet....more on that later
So where are we now....
well, I have created 5 finished courses so far in the art garden ... have been developing another 3 in acrylic...and made huge
leaps forward in colour
The 'digital' aspect of each course is a little bit different in its delivery as I have searched for the ideal format
and they are all based around facebook groups
I love the interactive aspect of a Facebook group,
inside each one there are vast hours of livestreaming, and people upload their art all the time
So I kept making a new group for each course
so now when you join the Art Garden you have to join a stack of different groups to be able to see the videos
and then there is the problem that not everybody uses facebook .. and cant join the groups
AND DURING THE RESTRUCTURE - THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE
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AMALGAMATED GROUPS
I will keep the Art Garden Group
where I will put ALL the livestreams
and create a new public group called... mandyevansartist...?
then all the other groups will be removed
one by one -
as they are replaced with self paced online classes that are available through my website
so for people who have bought just one or two of my courses - they will get the new and improved digital courses
and then only the people in the Art Garden will get access to the bevvy of livestreams from the past
which makes them special
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COLOUR STORIES
For the past 3 years I have been making paint...almost like a job..lol
and in doing so, I have learnt HUGE amounts about colour
as an artist of 40 years I found what I didnt know really surprised me
intuitively I know how to mix colours
but when it came to breaking it down and explaining it
or recreating it, like exactly, to go in the same bowl
I was lost
so as I have made a breakthrough with my own learning I have translated the information into interactive paint cards
what has taken me months of daily work and research
is hopefully super easy to understand with the colour by numbers paint card
first it was the 'Real Colour Wheel'
which is that there are 6 primaries, not 3
and knowing this make vast differences to how you can mix bright or muted colours
then.....due to my lack of being able to mix fabulous neutrals from even this wheel....
I worked out the modern colour wheel
I took the long way round and thought for a moment I had invented it...lol
but no - its actually a thing
and this one is great - because its way closer to the truth
and has a great learning curve about colour names
but what its done for me is pushed me into a whole new journey of discovery
where Im pretty sure the truth about colour is that its actually magic
or thats what Im calling my new book when I make it .....'Colour Magic'
an interactive colour mixing book....gorgeous
but thats for later
right now the new colour card Im developing is all about harmony
and is looking something like this
but today if you buy the bundle offer into the art garden
you get sent a 36 dot paintcard which contains all of these and more
Get all 3 books and as a bonus you also get a free years subscription into the Art Garden
Get the entire Abstract Watercolour System
3 Books - Abstract Patterns, 3 Bowls and Big Watercolour
The 2 groups - 3 Bowls and Big Watercolour
free paint
and entry into the Art Garden Group for 1 year
This is a special pre sale offer to buy a group that I just created - and in the early days of building -
but if you buy the group now I will send you my brand new art workshop booklet along with a Real Colour Wheel paint card
This will be a subscription group - with a yearly payment - so a project based art school for less than $10 au per month
but the subscription time will only begin when the timer runs out - on September 1st- giving me time to flesh the group out and add vidoes and livestreams
also on this date the free book deal will disappear
So if you buy now you will get an Abstract Painting Workshop Book, some Artisinal Paint and this extra time for free
If you want to know more about how the group will work - check out the "3 Bowls Group" webpage - and it will work in a similar format to that
only it will contain a stack of different workshops as well
A Free Abstract Painting Workbook with The Real Colour Wheel - worth $65
This workbook is a brand new prototype I have developed and am still tweaking
It contains the list of Abstract Principles I intend to explore in the Art Garden in the coming years, as well as
being an instructional workbook to create your own abstract acrylic painting