THE CREATIVE PLAYGROUND
Come make something
wonderfully weird.
Playful art projects, character builders and creative tools designed to get you out of your head and into the fun part: making something.
Start PlayingNO PERFECT ART REQUIRED
A place to play,
experiment & make.
The Creative Playground is where my art becomes something you can play with too.
You'll find character builders, art-journal projects, creative prompts and classes that give you just enough direction to get started — with plenty of room to make the work your own.
Pick something that makes you curious and see where it takes you.
CURRENTLY IN THE PLAYGROUND
Monster Mayhem.
I'm building a wonderfully weird little world of monsters — one strange shape, silly expression and unexpected personality at a time.
Make your own Monster Mansion with my free tutorial, then fill it with whatever creatures show up.
Get the Free TutorialSTART WITH A CHARACTER
Who should we make today?
Mix shapes, expressions, colors and unexpected details to invent characters you probably wouldn't have planned.
FREE CHARACTER BUILDER
Whimsical Bird Builder
Mix and match shapes, emotions, patterns and funny little details to create your own flock of characters.
Start Building Birds →MONSTER MAYHEM
The Monster Machine
Let chance choose the shapes, features and strange little details. You get the prompt. Your imagination does the rest.
Coming SoonTHEN BUILD A WORLD
Don't stop at
one character.
Give them somewhere to live. Add a house. A fence. Flowers. Mushrooms. A pocket. Something hidden behind a flap.
One idea leads to another until the page becomes its own wonderfully strange little place.
CLASSES & CREATIVE EXPERIENCES
Choose a world and jump in.
Art-journal projects, playful characters and creative experiences designed to make getting started the easy part.
Whimsical Bird Art Journal
Build playful pages full of bird characters, tiny worlds, collage and unexpected little stories.
Explore the Class →Layered Spooky Art Journal
Paint, draw, collage and layer your way through a wonderfully spooky world.
Explore the Class →Doodle Playground
Fill the page with marks, shapes, doodles and whatever happens next.
Explore the Class →THE ONLY REAL RULE
Follow the idea
that makes you smile.
You don't need to know what the finished page will look like. You don't need perfect supplies. And you definitely don't need to make it exactly the way I did.
Start somewhere. Make a thing. Respond to it. Then make the next thing.
That's the whole idea.