eBooks and Courses
Honor YOUR Curiosity & celebrate your Creative Expression.
Grab both courses for more savings and enjoy a deeper dive into texture, encaustic work, and how to combine them beautifully.
To learn about Textural Minimalism, click HERE.
To learn about Rebel Encaustics, click HERE.
If you ever struggle with creating dimension and depth to your art in a way that feels intentional and integrated, this course offers solutions that are much more accessible than you may have thought.
In this workshop, you will learn new ways of seeing and modifying elements to become textural interest in your art all while using the magic of intentional constraint. You will learn how to effectively create a few simple parameters within which to work so that your creativity is kicked into overdrive as to how to use those elements free from the distraction of all the other available materials you could work with.
Using plaster, natural and found materials, and a bit of paint, you’ll create a heap of textural studies which you will then learn to enhance with paint and thoughtful compositions. You’ll discover another source of creative freedom within constraint and a minimalist approach that will surprisingly also translate into helpful direction finding when you are working with an abundance of materials as well. You’ll discover that with a little guidance, less (to choose from) really can be more (creative flow)!
If you’ve been intrigued at the thought of working with encaustics but have felt overwhelmed by the rules, the expense, and the complex set up supposedly required, Stephanie is so happy to invite you into this course where she demystifies the rules, simplifies the set up, explores the versatility, and illuminates the ease with which you can start working with encaustic medium. The possibilities are complex and endless but they can also be kept surprisingly simple, approachable, and affordable.
Encaustic medium offers unique dimensional quality and luminosity to artwork that has often felt intimidating and overwhelming to artist who are interested in trying their hand at it. The gatekeepers of encaustic knowledge have created so many rigid rules with scary consequences that it’s easy to see why there might be hesitation to jump in! But when you lay your eyes on a piece of art that appears to glow from within, the desire to create your own version of that glow emerges.
This course will help you invite luminous layers into your artwork, be free from overwhelm and intimidating processes, and add encaustic to your favorite mediums to expand possibilities with creative expression that you love.
Hey Creative, second guessing what’s possible for you is cancelled.
Instead we’re allowing our inner most longings to get the honor and space they deserve in bold, personal, meaningful art!
No matter how old we are, no matter how tired we are of just being grateful for what we have, and no matter what “limiting beliefs” we’ve had for forever.
It’s never too big (or small) of a dream.
It’s never too late (or soon) to start.
It’s never too much (or too little) to hope for.
And none of the feelings you long to feel on a regular basis are out of reach.
Join me three Thursdays in March 2024 as we use our creativity to make our inner most longings real life experiences.
SESSION 1: On March 14th, you will receive the first session that will be a pre-recorded video guiding you through the process of bringing in your favorite art supplies and materials that capture + convey what you want to create and manifest into your life. As part of this instruction, I will share with you how I interpret “manifesting” as a woman who wants to align my will with the dreams my Creator has planted in me and will offer suggestions for how you can combine your creative impulses and style with your own belief system.
SESSION 2: On March 21st we’ll bring these elements together in a gorgeous, personal, and inspired work of art that will activate your belief in dreams-becoming-real every time you view it. Beautiful art is worthy of every inch of wall space it takes up. Art that ignites a fire of expansion and excitement and childlike-winder in you is even better.
SESSION 3: On March 28th we’ll meet virtually on Zoom where I will answer any questions you’ve had about the process and wrap up the shared experience with guidance on how to carry the creative energy forward. The creation process is powerful. It’s fire and energy and hope and excitement. Holding belief after the fire has died down is where the real magic of creation + manifesting happens.
Especially when you’re feeling discouraged.
Especially when doubt is taking the lead.
Especially when you aren’t seeing evidence of your dreams becoming real (yet).
Your creativity makes beautiful art and it can make a life that lights you up too.
Join me and we’ll dare to dream together!
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EARLY BIRD PRICING THROUGH MARCH 22nd.
All the videos an companion instructions will be downloadable and the Zoom session will be available for replay if you can’t make it live (or if you just want to watch it on repeat for encouragement and recalibration).
Join me for this detailed exploration in creating your own versatile texture ground for mixed media, encaustic, book arts, visual journalling, and textile work on nearly any surface or substrate you love working on.
I’ve been working with plaster professionally for about 20 years and even longer than that as a curious creative. I spent many years working around the limitations of plaster in it’s various forms while also falling more and more in love with the porosity, textural potential, and the incredible receptive surface it provides. I surrendered to it’s vulnerability and limitations on flexible surfaces (like book pages and stretched canvas) until I developed a basic recipe that not only allows for all the lovely qualities of plaster to shine but that also creates an incredibly durable and versatile ground that traditional plaster doesn’t allow for.
In this workshop, we are going to deep dive into this formula and the many ways it can be modified and adapted to create subtle dreamy texture, intense rough texture, and anything in between.
We’ll be diving into various recipes and the potential and opportunities each one provides for the mediums you prefer to work with. It’ll be just enough science to give you the confidence to modify the recipe as your work evolves and even more creative fun to not need to be precise!
If you’ve loved pre-made texture mediums but have found them to be cost prohibitive for creating large work or would like more versatility in the materials they can be combined with, this Good Ground workshop is just for you!
Course content is downloadable for lifetime access!
If you’ve ever felt like the only thing missing from you being able to create the art you love is more confidence, this workshop is for you!
I want to share with you a whole new way to define confidence, specifically as an artist, so that you can release yourself from any fears of creative inadequacy and create work that excites you, market & sell this work confidently, and truly enjoy the process of discovering new ways of creating.
I created this workshop because I have felt so let down by all the usual advice that never created lasting sureness in me. I have discovered a few very simple but powerful shifts in how we perceive and cultivate confidence that now I know how to shift, in an instant, from the thoughts of inadequacy or uncertainty in my creative work to actions of creating in flow. It feels almost like magic and I want that magic for you too!
If you’re done chasing confidence and want to feel free to make a creative process and art that you love, this workshop will give you potent mindset shifts and defined, applicable tools that you can implement to feel immediate upleveling of your creative confidence. Imagine a stillness and certainty deep in your soul that guides and propels you into an exhilarating love-affair with creating! THIS is creative confidence and you can have it too!
*This workshop is instant and lifetime access. After completing your purchase, you will receive and email with the link to the workshop.
Learn intriguing techniques and simple tips as you join me in the process of making this painting from beginning to end. It's like being right next to me in my studio, watching my process and how I make decisions along the way in the completion of a piece of art.
Video course approximately 1 hour in length + very short supply list and a heap of conversation about why I do what I do and what alternatives can also be explored.
Once you register, an email will be sent to you within 24 hours with the course access information…AND you have lifetime access!
Learn intriguing techniques and simple tips as you join me in the process of making miniature cast botanicals relics combining simple techniques and materials you have on hand. As you journey through this course, you’ll collect botanicals or other 3 dimensional objects with texture, lines, and shapes that resonate with you most. Inspired by your collection, you’ll layer these objects in casting medium and then follow up with a plaster form for a beautiful representation of the objects! A quick follow up with paint (and encaustic medium, if you are so inclined) and you’ll have encapsulated the beauty of the moment to enjoy for years to come.
Video course approximately 2 hours in length + very short supply list and a variety of approaches for creating subtlety different paint finishes as simple or complex as you want.
Once you register, you’ll receive the course access information immediately after completing payment SO MAKE SURE TO READ YOUR CONFIRMATION PAGE!…AND you have lifetime access!!
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Learn intriguing techniques and simple tips as you join me in the process of making a painting from beginning to end rich with personal symbology and layered techniques. As you journey through this course, you'll do a little research into ancient and indigenous mark making to connect with combinations of lines and shapes that resonate with you most. Inspired by your research, you'll make your own personal pattern – a hieroglyph of sorts – to include in the painting as a representation of something in your life you want to give visual voice to. It may be a triumph, an evolution of self, or a way of being you intend to embody from here on out.
Video course approximately 2 hours in length + very short supply list and a heap of conversation centered on nourishment of body and soul.
Once you register, you'll receive the course access information immediately after completing payment SO MAKE SURE TO READ YOUR CONFIRMATION PAGE!…AND you have lifetime access!!
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Learn intriguing techniques and simple tips as you join me in the process of making your own whimsical winged creature sculpture. Dig out your fabric stash for soft layers to contrast the sturdy 3 dimensional form you’ll sculpt!
Video course approximately 2 hours in length + very short supply list and endless options for finishing your lovely lepidoptera!
Once you register, you’ll receive the course access information immediately after completing payment SO MAKE SURE TO READ YOUR CONFIRMATION PAGE!…AND you have lifetime access!!
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Learn intriguing techniques and simple tips as you join me in the process of making large format paintings. It's called “The Big Dreamy” but you can make it any size you want and as dreamy or un-dreamy as you are bent towards. Bring those favorite old photos out of storage and make them larger than life through this simple approach to painting large!
Video course approximately 2 hours in length + very short supply list and a variety of approaches for creating subtlety different paint finishes as simple or complex as you want.
Once you register, you'll receive the course access information immediately after completing payment SO MAKE SURE TO READ YOUR CONFIRMATION PAGE!…AND you have lifetime access!!
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Luminous hot wax and the stoney tooth of plaster is explored in two and three dimensional forms. Through video and written instruction in the pages of this ebook, multiple techniques over various projects will help you create tactile and gorgeous pieces of plaster-based work. The techniques in this book can be used for quick and simple little works of art or expanded on and combined for richly layered and complex larger works.
Using my signature metalsmithing techniques, this ebook will guide you through every step of creating a beautiful pipe-based vessel necklace in which you can tuck your wildest dreams and most heartfelt prayers. The instructional videos and companion written content will teach you techniques that include fabricating through butane torch soldering + adorning, beading, & incorporating fabric into a personal wearable piece of art.
Plaster, paint, and encaustic medium are combined in three dimension in this ebook that guides you through 8 different plaster sculpting projects, from beginning to end, including a Santos doll, message hearts, vessels and boats, personal moments boxes, and more! With a focus on understanding and exploring the mechanics of sculpting with plaster, you’ll learn a wide variety of armature techniques that will allow you to easily create beautiful sculptures of your own design beyond the specific projects.
Plaster, paint, and encaustic medium are combined in three dimension in this ebook that guides you through 8 different plaster sculpting projects, from beginning to end, including a Santos doll, message hearts, vessels and boats, personal moments boxes, and more!
With a focus on understanding and exploring the mechanics of sculpting with plaster, you’ll learn a wide variety of armature techniques that will allow you to easily create beautiful sculptures of your own design beyond the specific projects.
This metalsmithing + plaster based ebook guides you, step-by-step, through using various techniques for working with plaster pages as well as simple, approachable metalsmithing techniques. When you finish the course, you will have your own beautiful Handbook of Elements ready for journaling and original art.
Making art is not always a line from blank beginning to full, finished end. Sometimes it backtracks for an even more interesting end result as in the process of creating deconstructed paintings from new or existing works of art.
Join me in my studio as I take you, step by step, through the process of creating a collection of deconstructed paintings from large to smaller works. We’ll start with raw materials that we’ll mingle to mature and luminous layered pieces surfaced with a rule-bending approach to encaustic finishing. (Click through the images to the left to see examples of pieces and the process. You’ll, of course, make your own kind of magic with whatever colors and imagery resonate with you.)
The course is an instant download ebook and is primarily video content – approximately 4 hours – with companion (printable) supply + materials guides, tools and other relevant resources.
20% off the regular price when you purchase this bundle!
If you love deep diving into all the ways just a few easily accessible and affordable mediums can be applied and combined for limitless possibilities, this plaster & wax bundle is just for you!
“This course was fabulous-I love that I can keep going back to revisit. No matter how many times I review the content, I always come away with something new I missed before. This course just keeps on giving!” – C.G.
“I did my very first encaustic painting on the weekend. I loooove working with wax. I have a lot to learn but this is something I am so happy I came across!!” -P.H.
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My comprehensive, non-traditional metal-smithing class is more full and more fit than ever!
With over 30 video tutorials in high quality HD footage the signature techniques in this ebook have been the foundation work that has become the jumping off point for many metalsmithing artists to launch into their own vibrant designs and create wildly successful businesses of their own. Each and every technique I will share can be adapted to SO many different art forms – not even the sky will be the limit for you!
Here's a sneak peak at one of the foundation techniques ("Flooding with Solder") presented in this course. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO:
20% off the regular price when you purchase this bundle!
My flagship metalsmithing course, Homesteader’s Metalsmithing Revamped, has been bundled with two of my most popular project-based metalsmithing courses – Handbook of Elements and Pipe Dreams – for a rustic metalsmither’s bundle of dreams!
When you purchase this bundle, you will instantly get the download links for all three robust courses so you can get started right away!
“This is a fabulous class! Stephanie is a gifted and giving instructor live or via video. She teaches you how to use the torch and turn brass and copper and silver sheets into beautiful one-of-a kind works of art. Whether you are a pro, a newbie, or somewhere in between I recommend this class. I have a hard time with on line classes but she breaks this one down into digestible segments. This is a five star class for sure!!!”S.M.
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The Art & Life of Contrast is a brand new immersive course that blends practical art-making with deep inner work. If your art sometimes feels a little meh, contrast is your way back to resonance—visually, emotionally, and energetically.
Through over 15 hands-on lessons, you’ll explore contrast not just as an art principle, but as a tool for more satisfying creative decisions, deeper emotional impact, and a stronger personal voice. With bold mark-making, subtle shifts, and guided journaling, you’ll build trust in your instincts and create work that feels more honest, more alive—and unmistakably yours.
Each module ends with a journaling prompt, because what shows up in the studio always echoes somewhere else in life. When we apply the principles of contrast beyond the canvas, everything becomes more vivid, more true, and more fulfilling.
This course is perfect for beginners building confidence and for experienced artists ready to break ruts and deepen their creative voice. You’ll sharpen your instincts, make braver marks, resolve uncertainty, and create not just better art—but a more satisfying process.
Even if you love subtlety in your work—maybe especially if you do—this course isn’t about abandoning it. It’s about discovering what happens when you let it sit beside something bold. Something wild. Something loud, tender, or unexpected.
The Art & Life of Contrast is about making room for difference—in your art and in yourself. Because contrast doesn’t cancel things out—it brings them to life. It’s the difference between something you look at… and something you feel.
And if your art or your days have felt too quiet or too same-same, this is your invitation to stir the pot, stretch your palette, and create with more boldness, joy, and truth. This isn’t just about making better art. It’s about shedding old patterns of people-pleasing, reclaiming your energy and voice, and finally feeling free to show up as your whole, honest, and nuanced self—on the canvas and in your life.
*ALL COURSE CONTENT, INCLUDING LESSON VIDEOS, WILL BE DOWNLOADABLE so you will be able to have permanent access to them even if the classroom closes.