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HEALING WATERCOLORS FOR LOW ENERGY DAYS
Finish something beautiful again with the energy you actually have.
Paint simple, soothing circles and turn them into whimsical collages you're proud of, even on days when setting up the paints feels like too much.
EARLY BIRD $47 (REG PRICE $97 )
Self-paced, with no schedule, and nothing to fall behind on.
Create from the bed, couch, car, desk - anywhere!
For creating on low-energy days
Finish something beautiful again with the energy you actually have.
Paint simple, soothing circles and turn them into collages you're proud of, even on days when setting up the paints feels like too much.
EARLY BIRD $47 (REG PRICE $97 )
Self-paced, with no schedule, and nothing to fall behind on.
Most art classes are designed for people with energy to spare.
Buy all these supplies.
Set up your space.
Follow along for an hour.
But when you're living with chronic illness, burnout, grief, or other hard life stuff, even getting the paints out can feel like too much.
So the watercolors you bought in a hopeful season are still in the bag. On flare days you're on the couch anyway, bored of resting and too wiped to start anything. You've sat down for a class and spent the whole thing trying to pick a color. Your body taps out before you're ready to stop, and cleanup takes whatever you had left.
And every unfinished thing gets filed away as proof:
I can't stick with anything anymore.
I swear I wasn't always this person.
Meanwhile your world gets a little smaller, one thing you used to love at a time. You didn't fail those classes. They weren't built for your body. "Beginner friendly" almost always means friendly to a healthy beginner.
Meet Calming Circles Collage.
Something happens when you paint circles. You get almost hypnotized, and the noise in your brain turns down for a while. Then you cut them out and turn them into collages you'll actually want on your wall.
The subject (circles) and the colors (100 palettes ready for ya)
are decided before you sit down.
Paint on a good day, cut on an okay day, glue on a bad one, and your circles wait for you in between.
Painting belongs in your medicine cabinet.
Calming Circles Collage is a creative course and a health practice, and I teach it as both.
In one study, 45 minutes of art-making lowered cortisol, the stress hormone, in most people, whether or not they'd ever picked up a brush (Kaimal, Ray and Muniz, 2016).
A World Health Organization review of more than 3,000 studies found that engaging with the arts supports wellbeing and can help people manage illness (Fancourt and Finn, 2019).
In one study of older adults in professionally led community arts programs, participants reported better overall health, fewer doctor visits, and less medication use than a comparison group (Cohen, 2006).
Painting belongs in your medicine cabinet.
Calming Circles Collage is a creative course and a health practice, and I teach it as both.
In one study, 45 minutes of art-making lowered cortisol, the stress hormone, in most people, whether or not they'd ever picked up a brush (Kaimal, Ray and Muniz, 2016).
A World Health Organization review of more than 3,000 studies found that engaging with the arts supports wellbeing and can help people manage illness (Fancourt and Finn, 2019).
In one study of older adults in professionally led community arts programs, participants reported better overall health, fewer doctor visits, and less medication use than a comparison group (Cohen, 2006).
K.A. put it this way:
"I love how calming to my nervous system it is when I am painting. It helps me not notice the symptoms of chronic illness for a while."
K.A.
I'll never sell you a cure.
What I can give you is a practice you can come back to on the hard days, a few minutes at a time that is proven to improve health and wellbeing.
Inside Calming Circles Collage
How to paint calming circles, why the process feels so good, and how to pace a healing art project around a body and mind that changes day to day. Then you'll swatch your palette once during a sound healing meditation and learn the meditative marks that go inside your circles.
4 COLLAGE PROJECTS
5x7 Coverall.
Circles cover the whole card, so there's no empty space to plan and your first finish comes fast.
5x7 Trio.
Three circles on one small card, one of the quickest finishes in the course and an easy one to give away.
11x14 9-Grid.
Nine circles in a three-by-three grid, the layout that makes a stack of circles look planned from the start.
Large Coverall.
The big one, covered edge to edge and built over as many sittings as your body wants.
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Calming Circle Basics
Learn the basic process of creating a Calming Circle using Katie's signature breath-based process. You'll see demos for paint, marker, and pen, so you can do your circles from the bed, couch, car, or table.
Collage Composition Generator
Get stuck when it comes to arranging your circles and deciding on a collage composition? Use the interactive Calming Circles Collage Composition Generator for digital and printable circle collage layout templates.
BONUSES
100 Calming Circles Color Palettes
The hardest decision - gone! Skim 100 color palettes to inspire your next collage.
How to Repurpose Paintings into Calming Circles
The paintings you don't love can become fodder for new collages.
5 Tips for Using Using Circle Hole Punches
Learn the best ways to cut clean circles without the scissors and how to use the circles in collage.
Low-Energy Guide to Making Art from Anywhere
Get Katie’s faves from our popular low-energy art supply guide.
How to Digitize & Edit Your Calming Circles with Canva
Turn your painted circles into files you can edit, print, and share.
Budget-Friendly Framing Guide
Get Katie's secrets to budget-friendly frames so your collages end up on a wall instead of in a drawer. This is great for gift-giving, too!
The Art Spa Experience Kit.
Mindful mocktails, healing playlists, and your Art Zen Den setup, so a session feels like a trip to the art spa instead of one more thing on your to-do list.
FAST-ACTION
BONUS
LIMITED TO FIRST 50 PURCHASERS
A live mini collage class from the couch, with me.
The first 50 people to join get a live online class this fall where we make a mini Calming Circles collage and turn it into a hanging mobile from start to finish, the Low-Energy Edition way. Replay included.
A snail mail Calming Circles watercolor surprise.
Love a snail mail surprise? The first 50 folks in Calming Circles Collage will get samples of Katie’s favorite paints, colors, and paper, along with some Inner Peace Art Studio fun via snail mail.
Made for your
low-energy days.
Every lesson includes a short low-energy version with demos and examples of the best low-energy art supplies so you can create Calming Circles from almost anywhere.
You’ll learn how to use markers or crayons from the couch, your bed, or the car and how to swap the collage mess for something a bit more low-energy friendly.
Accessible. Adaptable. Inclusive. Flexible.
What you'll need:
Pens
Markers
Watercolors
Paper
Tape or glue.
Pens
Markers
Watercolors
Paper
Tape or glue.
Keep it as simple or as fancy as you want, and start with what's already in your closet. The details are inside the course.
Hi, I'm Katie.
I've taught Calming Circles for 4 years, and my members kept asking for more. So we spent a month painting circles and finished with a collage. When I shared it on Instagram, the response was huge, and this course was born.
I got sick at 36 and had to leave a job I'd been in for a decade. I have POTS, so most of my art gets made reclined on the couch, and I built the Low-Energy Edition for me before I built it for anyone else.
I'm also an Arts in Health practitioner, trained at the University of Florida and through Cal State's Healing Through Art program, and I've led more than 1,500 workshops for more than 4,000 women going through hard life stuff.
From the women who paint circles with me
J.L.
"Sat down at my art desk tonight with a headache, churning tummy and no idea how to soothe myself enough to actually sleep... Decided on Katie's Calming Circles class and it was exactly what I needed... the floral looping was absolutely hypnotic... I'm so relaxed that I am no longer dreading bed."
K.M
"Tried to do calming circles but my tremor was being anything but calm haha... So I just put the brush in my hand and didn't try to control my hand at varying levels. It was fun to turn my shakes into art."
N.V.
"I took a nice deep breath... my brain started to give me grief... Didn't let that yuck take this painting time away from me."
D.S.
"Whew! I needed that! Calming Circles are the gateway to healing art."
Before you talk yourself out of it.
DO I NEED TO BE GOOD AT ART?
Nope. The subject is already decided (circles), drawing is optional, and we don't paint properly here. A blob counts. Linda dropped her brush in the middle of a circle once, and it became a bird... and we loved it, so...
CAN I USE SUPPLIES I ALREADY HAVE?
Yes, please. Start with the bag you bought six months or six years ago. The repurposing bonus even turns old paintings you don't love into circles.
HOW LONG DO I HAVE ACCESS?
Unlimited access. It's self-paced with no cohort dates, so a flare month costs you nothing and you can repeat the whole process whenever you need it. There's no late here.
HOW LONG ARE THE LESSONS?
Short. Every lesson is built so you can do a piece of it in a few minutes and stop without losing anything.
The Community
Our community and weekly painting practice. Come create from wherever you are, with women who get it.
You don't have to wait until you feel better to make something you're proud of.
About what one in-person class costs, and it's yours with unlimited access. The first 50 people to join also get a live mini collage class with me later in October, replay included.
EARLY BIRD $47 (REG PRICE $97 )
You don't have to wait until you feel better to make something you're proud of.
About what one in-person class costs, and it's yours with unlimited access. The first 50 people to join also get a live mini collage class with me later in October, replay included.
EARLY BIRD $47 (Reg. Price $97 )
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