If you’ve ever bought beautiful supplies and then felt too scared to use them…
If you’ve ever said “I’m not a real artist”…
If you freeze the moment you sit down to make something…

You’re in the right place.

Most of us were taught that good art is neat, controlled, accurate, and impressive. By adulthood, that conditioning gets baked into our creative nervous system. Perfectionism takes over, and suddenly creativity feels dangerous instead of nourishing.

This class rewrites that.

Ugly art isn’t about making bad work.
It’s about making free work.

Work that isn’t performing.
Work that isn’t auditioning.
Work that isn’t trying to earn approval.

Ugly art gives you permission to show up with your shaky hand, your messy lines, your fear — and create anyway. It gives your nervous system safety, your brain flexibility, and your creativity space to breathe again.

Each of the 10 practices we’re about to explore is grounded in neuroscience, courage-building, and real-life experience with creative paralysis. These steps will help you break perfectionist patterns, loosen your grip, and rediscover the joy of simply making marks.

You don’t have to feel ready.
You just have to begin.

Let’s make something beautifully, wonderfully, intentionally ugly together.