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Learn to draw and paint with Earth & heart for connection, joy and personal transformation. Get inspired with these hands-on tools, videos and books.

Beauty Muse: Painting in communion with nature gives you tools to ignite your natural creativity and illustrates how small daily steps lead to a more creative life. With over 100 easy-to-try painting activities, inspiring narrative and vibrant colour images, this creative companion will support you to embrace art-making as a way to foster harmony and joy.

Articles on Doodling, Light and Shadow, Art as Contemplation, and Forest Bathing give you fresh ways to approach drawing and painting that support in-the-moment presence.

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Lisa Lipsett’s Art

Click here or on a painting below to see my art. There is magic in creating with nature through direct engagement and inspired impersonation. In my art I do both. I begin with time outside, attuning my senses to pattern, sound, light and movement. Like a moth, I follow what attracts. In the studio, I create mixed-media paintings in acrylic, oil stick and wax that celebrate cycles, flows and moments of earthly beauty. My mandala photo-art offers prismatic glimpses into natural patterns; the viewer is invited to look at a landscape through a drop of water or a kaleidoscope. In addition to artful encounters with nature, my art is a map of feeling landscapes, journeys within. Archival prints, cards and skins are available online at Decalgirl and Fine Art America. Original paintings are available for purchase. Just contact me. Shows and Open Studio days happen throughout the year. Check the Events listing to learn more.

Courses

NEW classes for 2015 are uploaded all the time. Creative by Nature Art: Foundations, Level 2 and Level 3, the Art Boost and Creative Nature Connection for green professionals are just some of the courses that will spark your creative practice.

When we draw and paint directly with animate Earth her wild vitality feeds us. We feel more alive and in tune with ourselves and the living world. Creative by Nature Art courses offer you practice in a hands-on method of drawing and painting that builds a powerful bridge to nature and self that awakens your heart to the creative language of life. Take a course today and experience the joy of a creative practice to call your own. Learn More

I will continue exploring this wonderful world of expression you taught me. I am very grateful.

N. Watters

I was an art virgin. Never taken an art class. Never thought I would. I'm so glad I did.

C. Mauro

Creative by Nature Art with Lisa is pure joy!

C. Smart

When I finish painting it gives me a feeling of release. I feel calm and satisfied. It is an outlet for stress, and it enables me to connect with something greater.

Environmental Studies graduate student

Even though I am a market gardener and outdoors all the time, it was totally different to be in the same environment, but with a creative focus.

H. Thoma

Lisa helped me take that leap of faith onto the page. I realized that this is a gift we all have. Forever grateful.

N. Watters

The art projects were fun, simple and before I even started to paint I already felt that whatever expression I presented it was the right one for me.

N. Watters

I am ready to get into my practice, whatever it shapes up to be! Thanks for the inspiration and for BEAUTY MUSE.

P. Pillay

The support of a schedule helped me to prioritize time to deepen my art practice, and there were many AHA moments and surprises along the way!

H. Thoma

Fears of failure and not being good enough could not gain the slightest foothold in the context of Lisa's approach. How can a painting fail when it has been created with closed eyes?

C. Mauro

About Lisa

Artist, author and teacher Lisa Lipsett is a specialist in nature connection and personal transformation through contemplative art. She has developed the Creative by Nature Art Method: a hands-on, nature based, easy to learn and teach, drawing and painting practice that fosters enduring experiences of heart communion with nature and nourishes authentic creative expression with natural ease. Lisa has a Doctorate in Transformative Learning from the University of Toronto; lives, works and plays on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada and loves gunk holing around the Gulf Islands with her family on their sailboat Phoenix. Learn more about Lisa’s Story.