Fodder School 3 - Early Bird Offer starts today!

Hello all! I'm dropping in to share the news that booking for Fodder School 3 opens today with a very special limited-time Early Bird offer  EDITED - Early Bird is over now, I'm afraid, but you can of course still sign up for the course at the regular price which - cards on table - is still an incredible bargain for what's on offer.

All the details for registration are coming up later in this post, as well as the trailer for Fodder School 3.  I couldn't be more excited about being a teacher on this year-long online mixed media art course.  There are so many adventures ahead.

And here's another little peek at what I'll be sharing during my month of classes...

Not only that, but there's a very special bonus... a brand new, original stamp set designed especially around this Fodder School 3 project, in collaboration with PaperArtsy, as well as sets of PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paints that I've curated for painting botanical imagery... but more of those on Sunday! 

The Fodder Challenge has been a massive success with more than 17,500 participants.  What an incredible 12 days of creativity, inspiration, and connection.  It has been amazing seeing all the photos of fodder and being shared on Instagram #fodderchallenge and everywhere else. 

If you need extra time to catch up, the Fodder Challenge lessons will be available until August 4, 2022. If you still haven’t registered for this free event, you still can by simply clicking this link!  Yes, there's still time to find out how to create Floating Quotes of your very own... 

But now is the chance to follow through with those 12 teachers and spend a year diving deep into mixed media creativity. Fodder School 3 will be a year which will feed your creative spirit, add to your skill sets, and take you on journeys you haven't even imagined.

Even at full price it would be a bargain, but today Early Bird registration opens, and is available for the next five days, making it an even better deal.

All the details are further down this post...

But first let me share some more of what I've been creating inspired by the other teachers during the Fodder Challenge...

Day 7 - Gratitude Medals with Jennifer Wilkin Penick

You may recognise both the circles and the ribbons from the previous Fodder sessions... that's the joy of Fodder - you make it, and then you use it! But I did create new floating quotes for these, using some of Seth Apter's brilliant word stamps.

Day 8 - Tag Book with Megan Quinlan

Oh, I was in my happy place with this one... Megan offered up a brilliantly simple book structure, and shared her background technique, and then issued an invitation to play with theme, colour and imagery to suit ourselves.  Well, it was only ever going to be nature for me, wasn't it?!

Day 9 - Collaging with Christine Karpiak

Another lovely bit of creative playtime.  I started with paint-mixing tests I did before creating my Salty Rosemary project for the PaperArtsy blog recently, and they became the spines for the collaging in this series of five soothing panels (I was in need of some soothing by this stage of the game... the pace has been frenetic - in a lovely way, but frenetic nonetheless!)

One of the great joys for me of the whole thing has been taking the inspiration on offer and finding how it translates into my own palette of colours and styles.  It's given me a brilliant kick in the mojo, and I'm certain that the creative stimulation, joy, and discoveries will continue over the full year of Fodder School 3.

So how does Fodder School work?

The idea behind Fodder School is incredibly simple, yet the result is extraordinary.  On the first day of each month, a new instructor reveals a series of lessons and notes on handmade collage fodder creation. Then, two weeks later, lessons and notes on a big project using that collage fodder are available for you to watch.

You’ll also receive bonus lessons that arise spontaneously when this community of lifelong learners has something interesting to share, like a fresh take on the lessons of that month.

You’ll be part of a large community of makers sharing their Fodder School art on Instagram and in the optional private Facebook group. But of course you can choose simply to watch, learn and make without any pressure to interact at all, if that's the way you prefer it!

Fodder School lesson content is all pre-recorded, so you can work at your own pace, with “lifetime access.”  You'll also get lifetime access to all the classes from this year's Fodder Challenge - rather than losing them on August 5th.

What will I be sharing during my month of teaching?

Here are a few more sneak peeks of the Fodder School project I'll be teaching. In my classes alone, we'll be looking deep into nature, and playing with sketching, stamping, painting, house-building, and so much more!  I'm so looking forward to sharing my world of botanical sketching, 3D collaging, and of course my tiny houses.

Who else is teaching on Fodder School 3?

The twelve FS3 teachers are:

Alison Bomber @w0rdsandp1ctures

Barb Smucker @barbsmuckerstudio

Chris Karpiak @christinekarpiak

Di Venter @di.venter

Jennifer Wilkin Penick @jenniferwilkinpenick

Kecia Deveney @keciadeveney

Megan Quinlan @meganquinlanstudio

Sarah Gardner @juicy.s.art

Shay Kent @shaymichellestudios

Susanne Randers @mitkrearum

Tiffany Sharpe @tiffanysimplysharpe

Yetunde Rodriguez @yaytoonday

If you’d like more information, including biographies of all those creative artists, you can read all about it here.

What does it cost and when does it start?

The cost of Fodder School 3 is $237.00 USD + tax.  That really is incredibly good value for what you're getting - it works out at about $19.75 USD + tax per month for an amazing new course each month - delivered in two sets of classes. That's about €17.90 or £15.40 at current exchange rates.  Compare that to the individual cost of taking online mixed media art classes a la carte (estimated at $1,524.00 USD) and you'll see what incredible value Fodder School 3 offers.

And there's even more on offer than just the two sets of classes each month.  There will be bonus sessions cropping up throughout the year, as well as lots of introductory material already available to enjoy.

Once registered, you’ll have immediate access to Fodder School Orientation and lifetime access to Fodder Challenge 2023 (access to FC2023 will be directly inside of the FS3 classroom).

Fodder School 3 lessons begin on October 1, 2023 and run until September 30, 2024.  But as soon as you have access to the FS3 classroom, there are already fascinating Orientation videos available to watch, dealing with supplies and other helpful information, including one with me on paints and colour mixing - with its own little challenge included.

3,500 past students in Fodder Schools 1 and 2 can’t be wrong. Fodder School is an art course like no other, and I'd love you to come on this creative journey with us.  If you need a little more temptation, take a look at the Fodder School 3 trailer here.

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend, and I'll be back with some more creative inspiration soon.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there's no such thing as a cautious creative.
George Lois

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought.
Albert Einstein

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.
Elizabeth Gilbert