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Squash your inner critic & build a consistent creative practice (so you can start finishing the projects you care about)
SCRAPPY ART SCHOOL helps skilled creatives build confidence and consistency through a 12-day art sprint with a pop culture twist.
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let me guess:
you miss the creativity you had when you were a kid.
because right now, you’re thinking things like this:
I FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE I CALL MYSELF AN ‘ARTIST’ BUT I'VE NOT MADE ANYTHING IN MONTHS.
I'M FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I’M NOT FINISHING ANYTHING I START.
I TRY AND THEN GIVE UP 10 MINUTES LATER BECAUSE THE INSPIRATION JUST ISN'T COMING.
I KNOW WHAT I’M CAPABLE OF. I JUST CAN’T SEEM TO FIND THE TIME OR CONFIDENCE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
MY INNER PERFECTIONIST RUNS THE SHOW.
I PROCRASTINATE MAKING ART BECAUSE I JUST FEEL LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IS MORE IMPORTANT.
Why not show up for your art this summer?
hi, I’m Olivia! your Scrappy Art School teacher.
You bring the craft, I’ll bring the container.
Scrappy Art School gives you the framework to practice creative consistency. I’ll provide:
The Container
a 12-day ‘art sprint’ that challenges you to prioritise quantity over quality
The Inspiration
we’ll collect ideas and seek inspiration from the 2005 film, Pride & Prejudice (yes, really!)
The Accountability
online live classes
creative co-working
The Community
a dedicated group space to share your work and connect with other creatives on the programme
…so all you have to do is focus on showing up every day and creating.
“It pushed me to do work I’d really not tried before and it paid off. I got my first commission”
— Emma, Term 1 Student“I really enjoyed it. It inspired me to prioritise my personal art practice and to step out of my comfort zone.”
— Ana, Term 1 Student“Scrappy Art School was amazing. It was so nice to have the space to relearn how to create for creating sake and also be held to account to actually do it!”
— Remi, Term 1 Student“Scrappy Art School was a great way to keep my creative practice consistent and focused with Olivia's guidance and a small community of people trying to do the same thing.”
— Maggie, Term 1 StudentPast Students Have Created:
comics
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mixed media
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scripts
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songs
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digital illustrations
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collages
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comics ✶ mixed media ✶ scripts ✶ songs ✶ digital illustrations ✶ collages ✶
comics
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mixed media
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scripts
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songs
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digital illustrations
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collages
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comics ✶ mixed media ✶ scripts ✶ songs ✶ digital illustrations ✶ collages ✶
Prioritise your creative practice with Scrappy Art School
Show up and create every day with Scrappy Art School’s art sprint, supported by live classes & creative co-working.
An art sprint is a dedicated period of time where you show up and create something every single day. It can be in any medium, but it’s all about creating consistency, building accountability, and banishing your artistic fight-flight-freeze with momentum.
01Live Classes & Creative Coworking
Get inspired, share your ideas and synthesise new ways of working with the live classes and creative coworking sessions, which are a mixture of lecture and practical creative exercises (which are useful AND fun!).
0212 Day Art Sprint
Learn the magic of consistency, making bad things on purpose, and banish your artistic fight-flight-freeze with an art sprint: creating 12 pieces of art in 12 days, inspired by Pride & Prejudice.
03Online Chat & Syllabus
Get accountability and stay inspired with the extra support of to a Discord chat group and resources/replays from class.
dive into a world of ready-made inspiration
Each term, Scrappy Art School uses a piece of pop culture as our central ‘text’ for projects and classes.
Through exercises, discussions and play, we'll use it as a gateway to a world of inspiration.
Stay focused on the art of showing up.
Other creative classes provide fully open briefs or self-directed prompts that put most of the creative decision-making back on you.
Scrappy Art School chooses a film — rich in dialogue, visuals and story — as a central inspiration source, so your original work always has a starting point, and you can swap ideas with fellow students.
Together we’ll notice the little & large details (a hand touch! a boiled potato!) and use them to fuel our art sprints.
It makes the decision of ‘what will I make today?’ much smaller, so you can focus on showing up and making something.
Term 2’s Pop Culture: Pride & Prejudice
Make 12 pieces of art in 12 days.
are you ready for the challenge?
An art sprint is a container where we create something every day, and prioritise quantity over quality.
As the sprint progresses, you start thinking and creating differently.
It takes dedication, but the rewards will stay with you long after those 12 days.
If you’ve been craving a challenge, this is for you.
Build Your Consistency Muscle
Break Through To New Ways of Creating
Learn To See Inspiration Everywhere
Scrappy Art School consists of 6 Online Sessions
TERM 2:Tues 28th Jul - Sun 16th Aug 2026
All session are scheduled for 90 mins.
class syllabus ✐
class syllabus ✐
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We’ll be watching Pride & Prejudice on our own time, and using what we collect from the film as inspiration for our art sprints. In this class I’ll show techniques for watching and taking notes on a movie like an artist. Learn how to quickly collect ideas, notice things you might have overlooked, and capture details from your own life to weave into your art sprint.
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It’s time to start your art sprint! In this class we’ll discuss what makes a good art sprint, and how to plan yours. We’ll also do some warm up exercises to get your creative muscles used to making things quickly and imperfectly.
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This is the first of two creative co-working sessions where we’ll work on our art sprints separately, together. Sessions start with a quick check-in and a fun warm-up exercise to get the inspiration flowing.
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As we reach the mid-point of our art sprints, we’ll focus on how to keep going. We’ll review our progress, our processes, and come up with ways to innovate what we’re doing and make finishing irresistible.
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The second of two creative co-working sessions where we work on our art sprints separately, together. Sessions start with a quick check-in and a fun warm-up exercise to get the inspiration flowing.
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Now we’ve finished— what happens next? Our final class is focused on the ways we can share our art sprints, how we can incorporate what we’ve learnt into our everyday lives and how we continue to expand our capacity to create.
You’re ready for Scrappy Art School if…
You’re already making work in your chosen medium, albeit inconsistently
You’re frustrated that another week has passed without you touching your notebook
You’ve tried morning pages and you KNOW about the magic of consistency
You’ve enrolled in courses to upskill your craft but still aren’t finishing anything
You follow other creatives online and feel that mix of inspiration and jealousy
You’re talking about your creative projects more than you’re actually working on them
You’re ready to break the cycle of starting and abandoning projects
You already own the materials, have the skills, but can't seem to make the time
You’re ready to be held accountable by someone other than yourself
You’re craving a CHALLENGE this summer
You’re seeking a community of creatives who prioritise playfulness
You’ve had a creative practice before and want to return to it with fresh momentum
You’re open to trying things that feel uncomfortable or unfamiliar
You’re ready to stop consuming and start creating — bye bye, Pinterest!
hey, I’m Olivia!
Whether it's writing 100 songs in 100 days, or collaborating on a collection of Craiglist-inspired songs, I am an artist who LOVES a kooky challenge.
I'm also a creator who has learned about the magic of showing up and trying.
Over the years I've discovered how my practices of keeping notebooks, delving into visual worlds and staying curious has kept my creative spark alive and kicking.
Scrappy Art School is my excuse to create the art class I always wanted.
It combines what I've learned from songwriting, improv, poetry, and writer-teachers like Lynda Barry, and give artists the tools to create wildly and recommit to their practice.
Oh, and make art about Mr Darcy. Because it’s fun.
past Scrappy students said…
“I learned that you can mine loads of ideas from just one thing. Which is really exciting/inspiring.”
“This forced me to be consistent and make something on repeat!”
“I’ve been prioritizing my projects more than I was— they are important!”
past Scrappy students made…
by Maggie
by Emma
by Remi
by Olivia
scraps of paper, index cards, voice memos, handwritten notes, beat-up composition books, quick sketches, comics, collage, half-tuned guitars, making a mess (on purpose)
TERM 2 DATES & TIMES
Every class will be available for replay. All online classes will take place on zoom.
101: Collect Like An Artist
Tuesday 28th July
7pm - 8:30pm BST
102: Sprint Like An Artist
Sunday 2nd August
3pm - 4:30pm BST
Week 1
103: Making Time (Creative Coworking)
Tuesday 4th August
7pm - 8:30pm BST
104: Persist Like An Artist
Sunday 9th August
3pm - 4:30pm BST
Week 2
105: Making Time (Creative Coworking)
Tuesday 11th August
7pm - 8:30pm BST
106: Grow Like An Artist
Sunday 16th August
3pm - 4:30pm BST
Week 3
✶ Frequently asked questions ✶
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I’ve crafted this course for artists of any medium.
That could mean you’re a writer, a poet, a painter, an illustrator, a songwriter, a ceramicist… the list goes on!
All you need to do is choose a medium which you’re able to make something with every day. It might even mean that you choose a new medium — one that you’re curious about.
This course is one big, juicy permission slip to turn up and TRY.
And it doesn’t matter if you suck at it. In fact, it’s encouraged!
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People who want to create on their own timeline — we will be following. a structure over these two weeks.
People who are too proud or prejudiced to watch and make art about Pride & Prejudice ;)
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I can’t show the whole film or give you a link to download it but you can access the movie on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and is available for purchase on Google Play for about £2.50.
You watch the movie in your own time, and we do creative exercises based on certain scenes in class. No need to memorise anything but note-taking and mark-making is important as you watch the movie.
I’ll outline “how to watch it” in our first class.
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The classes and ‘making time’ sessions will be recorded and uploaded the following day, so you can follow along at your own time.
We will also have a class discord so you can chat and share your work there outside of class time.
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Refunds are available up until 24 hrs before the first workshop date.
Refunds are not offered after the course begins.
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This course is a commitment you’re making to yourself, so the only person who needs you to do the work is YOU!
The main piece of ‘homework’ (and the MEAT of Scrappy Art School is the 14 day art sprint. You’ll be expected to create 14 pieces of art over the course of 2 weeks (so one thing a day). The good news? IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE GOOD ART. Scrappy Art School is all about the magic of showing up.
We will also be creating additional work in class, quick, messy and easy, to get the juices flowing.
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You already know it— the most prolific creatives are the most consistent.
Every day you show up builds momentum and self-trust. Momentum builds a body of work. A body of work attracts an audience. Audiences bring opportunity.
You see, it all starts with consistency.
Scrappy Art School helps you show up in a way which feels fun and light, so consistency doesn’t feel like a chore.
PRICING: £277 £197 for waitlist