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I’m Claire and I’m here to spread good vibes through my art and my story.

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Big heartfelt appreciation to you Claire for your generosity in sharing your story of surviving a brain tumor and through recovery, a world of colorful and positive artwork. Truly inspiring ~ your happy energy is infectious and you have a team of us here cheering you on ~ Be-You-Tiful you are!

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Today’s digital design speaks for itself. Thank

Today’s digital design speaks for itself. Thankyou for all of your support. I’m in awe of your generosity. Shoutouts will come tomorrow 🙏

Hey mate, I need your help. You know how much I

Hey mate, I need your help. You know how much I love creating and sharing my art. You know how all I want to do is create art that uplifts and inspires others. You know how devoted I am to becoming a full time artist. Well, I’ve found a course that will help me do it! It covers everything from licensing to copyright to pitching your portfolio and more. The catch is, enrollment is almost $1000USD and it closes in 4 days. If you believe in my art, if you believe in the value of what I bring to the world and if you believe in my ability to succeed, please donate to the GoFundMe I have set up so I can enroll in the Leverage Your Art course by @gingiber . If you donate over $20 I’ll thank you personally in my stories with a digital doodle just for you. If you donate over $100 I will mail you an original A3 work on paper. If you donate over $500 I’ll send you an original painting on canvas. Please check the link in my bio to read my story and donate, and swipe to see the contents of the course you will be helping me enroll in. Thankyou so much for your support. #gofundme #leverageyourart #fundraising #arteducation #businesseducation #professionalartist #dreambig

Another fun tutorial by @genevievesdesignstudio, t

Another fun tutorial by @genevievesdesignstudio, this time it was this beautiful watercolour butterfly! I finally downloaded Genevieve’s watercolour brush pack and it was so much fun to play with! Do you have any favourite Procreate brush downloads you like to use? #butterflyart #butterflyartwork #butterflyartist #digitalbutterflies #digitalbutterfly #butterflyillustration #butterflydesign #butterflytutorial #procreatebutterfly #procreatebutterflies

REAL TALK - CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE I have been havi

REAL TALK - CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE I have been having a massive crisis of confidence with painting for the last few months. I haven’t been very forward about putting it out there on here because I haven’t wanted to sound all woe is me- but then I realized that if I’m feeling that way a whole lot of you are probably feeling that way too! I think there are a lot of reasons I’ve personally been feeling this. Firstly, I haven’t sold many original pieces through my stockists, and to be honest I didn’t expect that to be the case after the success of my launch last year. Prints, accessories, stationary, the occasional watercolour, sure! But my original acrylic paintings? Crickets. And they’re the things I love creating the most! Maybe it’s because the places I stock in aren’t the right places to sell originals. Maybe I’d be more likely to sell them if I put them on my website, or made an Insta shop, or started using an online platform like @bluethumbart . I’m not 100% sure why it’s not working, but I do know that because they aren’t selling it’s given me less confidence to put the effort in to launch another full collection, and haven’t even been talking about pieces that are available because I’m so scared of rejection, and all this is despite having that incredible launch last year as proof that people like my work. Isn’t it crazy how the stories we tell ourselves can undermine the actual physical evidence? It’s actually a big part of why I started my little 12 week challenge - so I could make sure I’m still pushing myself to make things - particularly paintings - and break through that fear and resistance that’s been holding me back. And thank god, it’s working, and I’ve had an amazing two days out in the studio bringing some pieces back to life and I gotta tell you, I’m going in a direction that is REALLY lighting me up. Has anyone else been struggling with a crisis of confidence lately? Tell me about it, I’d love to hear from you! 💖💖

Today’s digital artwork is this sweet little wat

Today’s digital artwork is this sweet little water colour-style shell, completed with @genevievesdesignstudio ‘s tutorial! It’s so fun to learn about all these new brushes and functions and skills. I know not everything I’m uploading at the moment is perfect or 100% my style, but I’m enjoying learning new things so I hope you’ll stick with me! Xx

Just a painting and some cold artist’s tootsies,

Just a painting and some cold artist’s tootsies, standing in front of a teeny tiny heater, asking it to warm them 🔥 Sometimes I love having an al fresco studio, and sometimes it reminds me of the three years I spent in Ballarat! ❄️🥶

VERY happy with this digital moth doodle I created

VERY happy with this digital moth doodle I created by following a tutorial by @genevievesdesignstudio ! Unfortunately the video completely froze before the end and no matter what I tried I couldn’t get it past the structure point, but the good news is that that means the mark-making is all mine! I do NOT normally like moths, but I’m really loving this one. What do YOU reckon? X

This has been my outlook for the last few hours wh

This has been my outlook for the last few hours while I’ve been hand stitching the day away! Pompoms make me soooo happy 💓 They’re just fluffy little nuggets of absolute joy that look amazing on everythingggggg 😍😍

This affirmation came to me this morning while wre

This affirmation came to me this morning while wrestling with my resistance to go out and paint. Does anyone else need to hear this today? #makeart #makebadart #makeshittyart #makealltheart #artandsoul #nojudgement #nofear #resistance #creativeblock #creatrix

Creating this digital design was a piece of cake t

Creating this digital design was a piece of cake thanks to @bardotbrush ‘s tutorial! I’m so happy with how it came up! 😍🍰🥳 #pieceofcake #cake #cakeslice #cakeslices #pieceocake #fooddoodle #fooddoodles #pinkcake #pinkcakes #pinkfood

Here’s a lil’ watercolour I’ve been working

Here’s a lil’ watercolour I’ve been working on for the last two days. When the weather’s like this I feel less and less inclined to get into acrylics, so I was brave enough to paint this in bed! The last time I tried to use watercolour in bed it was a BIG MISTAKE, but this time it went pretty well... So you can probably find me here for the foreseeable future 😂 Does anyone else just feel like hibernating when the weather gets cold? Or do you looooooove Winter? #hibernation #paintinbed #winterpainting #winterpaintings #artinwinter #wintercreation #wintercreations #toocoldtopaint #latestpainting #latestartwork

Fun little digital galaxy today, made with the tut

Fun little digital galaxy today, made with the tutorial by @hollypixels! This one was fun and quick and easy so if you have procreate check out Holly’s tutorials on YouTube! #youtubetutorial #arttutorial #arttutorials #galaxytutorial #galaxy #galaxyart #galaxyartwork #hollypixels #digitalgalaxy #nebula

Today was another snuggle up kinda day, so my art

Today was another snuggle up kinda day, so my art practice was adding to the watercolour I made yesterday. When I first returned to painting after my surgery, these were the works I made - fun, curvy watercolour shapes with a whole bunch of patterns. I still love working in this style and just think it looks so fun and joyful 🥳 #happyart #colourfulart #brightart#watercolourart #poscapens #kidsroom #kidsroomdecor #kidsroominspo #playfulart #joyfulart

Can I tell you how many hours I spent trying to cr

Can I tell you how many hours I spent trying to create these bloody hearts inside granny squares? SO MANY! Even after watching multiple tutorials it took me forever to try and nut it out. I was up til midnight the other night squinting through my glasses before having to call it and go to bed, so disappointed. But I finally got there yesterday and holy hell am I proud of myself! Learning a new skill is not easy. It can take what feels like forever. You will stuff it up over and over again. You will waste supplies. You will feel stupid. You will rewind tutorials over and over and put it on half speed and beat yourself up when you still can’t get it right. But holy hell, it is SO worth it when you finally get there in the end! Determination and persistence. You need a helluva lot of it when you’re an artist, hey? What’s one thing you’ve persisted with and been really proud when you’ve got there? Drop it in the comments below so I can cheer for you too! 🥳 #crochet #grannysquare #determination #persistence #hooker #crochetheart #crochethearts #crochetyourownmagic #crochetyoustay #artistlife

Today’s super sweet digital design, courtesy of

Today’s super sweet digital design, courtesy of a tutorial by @hollypixels #studiokitsch - with some classic Claire twists of course! #digitaldesign #digitalart #procreateillustration #procreateartist #procreateapp #digitaldraw #sweetheart #sweethearts #conversationhearts #sweetheartcandy

Gosh, Winter is well and truly here isn’t it? To

Gosh, Winter is well and truly here isn’t it?
Today was the sort of day when all I wanted to do was snuggle in bed! I didn’t though, and while I couldn’t bring myself to spend much time in the studio I came back in to the good old kitchen table and whipped up a little cheerful watercolour. I’m looking forward to bringing it to life with some paint pens soon. What’s your favourite winter art activity? #winter #watercolour #winterart #winteractivity #watercolourshapes #happywatercolour #watercolourdoodles #watercolourdoodle #fabercastell #watercolourpencils

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