The Path
Week of March 16, 2026
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In this issue:
🎨 Join Brent Eviston's creature collage experiment
🌱 Meet Mimi Chao and her mindful approach to creative career paths
✨ Rethink what’s possible—from painting to pattern design
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Creature Collage: A Creative Drawing Voyage
Unlock new ways of thinking by combining and recombining simple forms in this inventive drawing and collage class with Brent Eviston. You’ll select, draw, cut, and rearrange natural and mechanical elements to build imaginative creatures while exploring how creativity and innovation actually work. Through this playful process of remixing the world around you, you’ll sharpen your visual instincts, discover unexpected ideas, and develop a repeatable approach to creative experimentation you can bring into any artistic practice.
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Mindful Growth: Reconnecting with Your Creativity and Changing Career Paths
What does it take to build a creative life that feels meaningful and sustainable? In this thoughtful class, artist Mimi Chao introduces Mindful Growth, her approach to reconnecting with creativity while navigating change and uncertainty. Drawing on her journey from corporate lawyer to full-time artist, Mimi shares practical exercises and reflection prompts to help you clarify your why, face common fears, and map a path forward. It’s a reminder that creative success grows from intention—not burnout.
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Meet Kristina Hultkrantz
Kristina is an illustrator and surface pattern designer based in Sweden. A freelance artist since 2010, she creates vibrant work for books, fashion, and home goods while teaching classes that help artists explore illustration, pattern design, and playful creative experimentation.
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"Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking."
— Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
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In a recent episode of the Learn to Paint Podcast, Skillshare Top Teacher Suzanne Allard explores the belief that creativity has a deadline. After beginning her own art practice in her early 50s, Allard reflects on the pressure and self-doubt many artists experience—and what actually helps people move forward. Suzanne also shares insights on:
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- Why “starting late” is often a story, not a reality: Many artists begin meaningful creative work later in life.
- How low-pressure prompts build momentum: Small, approachable exercises can restore confidence and keep you moving.
- The patience creative growth requires: Progress often comes through pauses, experimentation, and trust.
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Artist and Top Teacher Peggy Dean shares how the personal story behind The Ugly Tooth, a playful animation project created in Procreate Dreams. What began as a quirky idea rooted in childhood insecurity became a reminder that the most meaningful creative work often comes from following unexpected ideas, embracing imperfections, and letting yourself get lost in the process. Peggy reflects on:
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- Letting curiosity lead the project: Some of the most resonant work happens when you follow an idea simply because it excites you.
- Embracing imperfections in art and in yourself: The “mistake,” the odd choice, the imperfect detail—these are often the elements that make creative work feel alive.
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Ready to break ground on a new creative skill but don’t know where to start? Skillshare’s Pattern Design in Procreate Learning Path walks you through creating seamless repeat patterns and building polished pattern collections in Procreate. Along the way, you’ll learn how to:
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- Create seamless repeat patterns in Procreate: Set up your canvas, arrange motifs into repeat tiles, and test your patterns for smooth, continuous flow.
- Explore essential repeat structures: Work with layouts like standard, half-drop, and diamond repeats while refining spacing, balance, and scale.
- Build cohesive pattern collections: Develop coordinating designs and scalable files for real-world applications like fabric or product design.
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Make more—and start fresh—this spring
Less scrolling, more making. Save 20% when you join Skillshare and let the season jump‑start your creative momentum.
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Offer expires 03/31/2026 at 11:59 PM UTC. After one year, your subscription will automatically renew at the full annual price. We will email you reminders prior to renewing. You may cancel at any time, effective at the end of the billing period.
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