Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship

Online Immersion | March 8 - June 7, 2023 | REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

Make art with more depth, meaning, and magic

What Is The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship?

The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship is a 3 months, online immersion for women artists that are yearning for more depth, meaning, and magic in their creative practice.

As your mentor, I will guide you on a journey through the deeper currents of your creativity where you will shed limiting beliefs that bind your Artist Soul and discover the wisdom that lives within your, unique mark-making and creative practice.

Through weekly small group mentoring calls, online learning modules, and check-ins you will:

Create a body-of-work that possesses your unique voice, style, and message.
Strengthen your connection to your Artist Soul by doing MORE of what you love and returning to alignment with your creative rhythms.
Devote yourself to your creative practice and begin to untangle your relationship to fear and resistance.
Gain the confidence and language to speak about your work with clarity.
Write a powerful artist bio and artist statement that reflects the essence of your work.
Sink into the deeper currents beneath your creativity and art making.
Learn how to view, organize, and curate your body-of-work into cohesive series and collections.
Be a part of a small, creative community mentored and guided by Connie Solera.

Sink into the deeper currents of your creative practice

The Paint FEARLESS Mentorship Is For Artists...

EAGER to create a body of work that will evolve and grow over time and most of all look and feel like your style and voice.
WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE in deciding what to create each week and with what materials.
ENERGIZED by participating in deep conversations, sitting in the questions instead of jumping immediately to solutions, and practicing deep listening -- to yourself, your art work, and your peers.
INSPIRED by diverse ideas and approaches to creativity, the creative process, and art.
YEARNING for a small group of creative peers to create with weekly and share the ebb-and-flow of the creative process together.
DEVOTED to nourishing your Artist Soul and appreciate the weekly check-in, accountability, and guidance.
EAGER TO LEARN more about your own unique visual language and strengthen your skills as an artist.
LOVE TO LAUGH and think making art is one of the best medicines in the whole universe!

Is The Mentorship Right For You?

Schedule a 25 minute Discovery Call & lets explore if the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship is the right fit for you.

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THE PAINT FEARLESS® MENTORSHIP WILL GUIDE YOU TO....

IDENTIFY and EMBODY your unique visual language. You will leave the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship knowing to-the-bone who you are as an artist with a renewed sense of confidence in what makes your art unique. Through the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship you will discover how your creative practice supports, guides, and braids itself in your life continuously.
DEEPEN your studio practice with care. In the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship you will create a body-of-work that helps you identify the intricacies of your creative process and establish a practice that is fully in alignment with your unique creative rhythms, interests, cycles, energy levels, and life circumstances while growing your skills as an artist.
STRENGTHEN your connection to your inner guidance (aka your Artist Soul). The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship will help you make friends with resistance and fear, approach your practice with more kindness, take creative risks with gusto, and trust your Artist Soul like nobody's business!
OWN your voice and style as an Artist. Instead of going on a mad-hunt for your voice and style, in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship you will create space for YOUR style and voice to become more robust and evident with each piece you create.
Fully and fearlessly EXPRESS yourself creatively. The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship will help you drop the overbearing woulds, coulds, and shoulds of perfectionism, heal and protect your practice from harsh self criticism and comparison, and most of all: help you embrace being fully YOU as an artist.

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shed limiting beliefs that bind your Artist Soul

HERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL DETAILS...

How does the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship work?

There are 12 live Zoom calls where we will gather in small groups to discuss the weeks topic, check-in with how you are doing, work through creative exercises, and have time for Q&A. These calls happen on Wednesday at 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST and are approximately 2.5 hours long each and are recorded.
There are 10 weekly learning modules where you will receive PDFs, audios, and videos designed to support and deepen your practice. Each module takes approximately 60-90 minutes to review and is yours to keep.
You will be guided to create a body-of-work during the 3 months we are together by following your intuition, creative interests, and curiosity. I will NOT be teaching painting techniques or steps on how to paint like myself during this Mentorship. Instead you will receive the structure, support, accountability, and guidance for you to fully make your own creative decisions, trust your inner guidance, challenge yourself artistically, and express yourself fearlessly.
Each week you will be held accountable to write a check-in discussing an element from your creative practice from the week before. You also have access to view the weekly check-in's of your peers as well. This is a great way to stay inspired as well as receive helpful support and feedback from myself and your peers.
Through the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship I will guide you to write a powerful Artist Bio and Artist Statement that will accompany your work in an online exhibition we lovingly call a "Vision" where we we will celebrate and honor the body-of-work you created during your Mentorship. I will help you in organizing, curating, and launching your Vision.
There are two Co-Painting sessions held on Thursday, March 30th and Thursday, May 11th where we casually gather on Zoom to paint together. To ensure a much more casual environment, these calls are NOT recorded.

What supplies do I need?

For the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship you will create a body-of-work using materials and substrates that you love and resonate with the most. So please use what you feel the most called to and/or comfortable with.

In addition to the materials and substrates you choose for your body-of-work, you are encouraged to have the following as well:

A sketchbook or notebook you can use as a studio log and for taking notes.
An art journal dedicated to contemplating the weekly topic with.
THIS MIXED-MEDIA PAD for doing creative exercises.
A camera phone for taking photos of your art work and process.

What are the dates and times of the Zoom calls?

The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship contains 12 weekly Zoom calls where we will gather to discuss the weeks topic, check-in with how you are doing, work through creative exercises, and have time for Q&A. These calls happen on Wednesdays at 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 5 PM GMT and are approximately 2.5 hours long each and are recorded.

CLICK HERE to learn what time that is where you live.

PLEASE NOTE: THE WEDNESDAY, MAY 31ST CALL WILL BE 3 HOURS LONG.

There are two breaks included in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship to support working at a sustainable pace.

Below are the dates of the Mentorship group Zoom calls:

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

~~ BREAK ~~

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 (3 Hours long)
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 (Closing Call)

There are two casual Co-Working dates scheduled at 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 5 PM GMT for 2.5 hours on the following dates. These Co-Working calls are NOT recorded.

Thursday, March 30, 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Is it mandatory that I attend the weekly Zoom calls?

Each Zoom call will last approximately 2.5 hours long (with the exception of the Wednesday, May 31st call - that will be 3 hours long) and will contain a combination of creative exercises, small group work, guided visualizations, Q&A, and juicy discussions.

These weekly calls are THE BEST part of the Mentorship and attendance to these weekly calls is required for you to receive the most benefits possible from the Mentorship.

The calls are recorded and yours to keep.

How much work can I expect each week?

The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship is designed to meet each artist exactly where they are in their artistic journey and life circumstances. Each artist's experience with the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship will look and feel different. Though, here are a few things you can expect around the workload:

Every Wednesday is a live Zoom call that will last 2.5 hours. Expect to add some time before hand to prepare and get yourself settled in.
Expect to spend approximately 1.5 hours per week reviewing the weekly learning module.
Expect approximately 2-4 hours a week completing the reflection and homework invitations presented in the weekly learning modules.
The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship is designed for you to spend more time in the studio and less time online. Each week you will need to tend to your own creative practice. The amount of time you spend on this will depend on your unique creative process and life circumstances. In the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship we focus on creating a long-term sustainable practice, so there is attention placed upon not overextending yourself and being aware of habits and behaviors that can lead to creative burn-out.
Depending on your level of comfortability and interest, expect to spend anywhere between 15 minutes to a few hours sharing and communicating in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship classroom each week. Having a nourishing, supportive community is essential to being an artist, but in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship we will enforce creating strong, healthy boundaries around how you commune with the online community and online art world in general.

Do I need previous art experience or training?

To participate in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship it is highly recommended that you have at least one to two years of creative practice under your apron. To fully receive all the benefits and magic of this mentorship you must be comfortable, or at least eager, to work more independently as an artist.

Formal training in the arts is NOT required.

The Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship is NOT a typical class or workshop. This is a mentorship where I will provide guidance, support, encouragement, and accountability -- as well as an intimate, personal look at my own process as well through weekly learning modules.

What type of technology do I need?

A computer or mobile device with connection to the internet. A high-speed connection will help reduce possible frustration.
A working email account that you are familiar using.
A free Zoom account and a webcam that you use to connect to Zoom.
A free membership to my Paint Wisdom Studio hosted on Mighty Networks.
All videos in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship are hosted on Vimeo and are best supported by the up-to-date version of the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, & Internet Explorer.
You need to be comfortable with basic technology skills – primarily accessing videos, taking photos of your work, and posting your photos to the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship classroom.

Is Connie available to answer questions and provide feedback?

How long do I have access to the weekly mentorship content?

How does the PF Mentorship differ from the PF retreats?

Well, first the obvious: the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship is a three-month, online immersive. My Paint FEARLESS® retreats are 5 days, in-person retreats.

In both programs I guide you on the amazing adventure of creating a body-of-work and nourishing your Artist Soul, but in the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship we take the time to go much, much deeper through weekly learning modules and individualized mentoring.

What if I have no idea what I want to create/paint?

What if I struggle with calling myself an artist -- can I still join?

Before joining the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship what is most important is that you feel a true desire to strengthen your creative practice and create art that reflects your own voice, style, and interests. You do NOT need to know what your style or voice is before joining the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship. Nor do you need to identify yourself as an artist as well.

Though, I'll warn you, the Paint FEARLESS® Mentorship will have you thinking and feeling different once we are done! ❤️

How much is registration? Is there a payment plan?

How many artists is registration limited to?

Are there scholarships?

Can I discuss with Connie if the Mentorship is a good fit?