The Path
Week of April 6, 2026
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In this issue:
🎯 Design art that sells with Cat Coquillette
✂️ Join Lisa Bardot and mix analog with digital art
🧩 Learn about Tracey Capone’s top Affinity efficiency tips
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Design to Shine: Create Best-Selling Art That Flies Off the Shelves
What if your art could sell itself? Long-time bestselling teacher, Cat Coquillette is BACK with a class sharing her four-pillar framework for commercially successful art, helping you define your style, understand your audience, and design with intention so your work connects and sells.
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Analog Meets Digital: Fun Mixed Media Illustrations in Procreate
Ready to loosen up your digital work? Join Lisa Bardot to combine simple analog techniques with digital tools to create textured, layered illustrations. Using everyday materials, you’ll experiment with mark-making, build compositions in Procreate, and create artwork that feels less polished and more alive.
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The Power of Sketching: Daily Drawing Practices to Restore, Refocus, and Reignite Your Creativity
What if reconnecting with your creativity only took a few minutes a day? Kyle Aaron Parson shares simple daily sketching practices designed to clear your mind, reduce overwhelm, and build a creative habit that actually sticks. With short, approachable exercises, you’ll learn how to let go of perfection and create with more presence and intention, one sketch at a time.
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Meet Tracey Capone
Tracey Capone is an illustrator, photographer, and self-proclaimed digital art nerd who loves breaking down complex tools into clear, approachable workflows. Her teaching focuses on giving artists the clarity and confidence to keep creating.
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“Inspiration usually comes during work,
rather than before it.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Filmmaker and Skillshare Top Teacher Jordy Vandeput shares how he’s rethinking creativity in 2026 by focusing less on output and more on what actually sustains it. After experiencing burnout, Jordy now prioritizes curiosity, balance, and protecting his creative energy, choosing projects that feel meaningful rather than chasing scale. He reflects on:
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- Starting from zero can be energizing: Learning new, unrelated skills helps reignite curiosity and creative momentum.
- Your best ideas don’t come from your desk: Movement, rest, and time away from work are essential for clear thinking.
- Sustainable creativity requires boundaries: Protecting your time, energy, and creative voice matters more than doing more.
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What happens when two Top Teachers sit down to talk creativity? Shelley Skail recently interviewed fellow Top Teacher Fatih “Fab” Mistacoglu about curiosity, experimentation, and the ideas behind his work. Fab’s process is rooted in play, problem-solving, and letting ideas evolve naturally over time. The pair discussed:
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- Curiosity drives the work: Trying new materials, techniques, and ideas keeps creativity active and evolving.
- Ideas come from living, not forcing: Everyday moments, memories, and interests naturally find their way into the work.
- Experimentation over perfection: Asking “what if?” and following unexpected directions is where the most interesting work begins.
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Early creative work can feel like a constant performance, full of self-doubt, pressure, and figuring things out as you go. Creatives share what shifted over time, from navigating imposter syndrome to learning how to set boundaries and trust their place in the work. One idea comes through clearly: confidence isn’t something you wait for, it’s something that builds as you keep going. Highlights include:
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- Discomfort is part of the process: Feeling unsure or out of your depth often means you’re doing the work that matters.
- Not everything deserves a yes: Learning to say no protects your time, energy, and creative standards.
- You don’t wait to feel ready: Treating your work seriously and showing up consistently helps confidence grow over time.
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