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While you’re here, you can add the Starter Kit’s companion course at a special rate today only: regularly $27, now $20.

The Starter Kit (in your inbox!) gives you a beautiful place to begin. If this way of creating already has you curious, Everyday Explorations: Downtown Edition is a perfect place to keep going - no downtown required.

One-time payment. Lifetime access. This special rate is only available on this page today. Not vibing with it? No hard feelings — you’re covered by a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Add Downtown Edition for $20 today!

5 bite-sized lessons
Tiny Urban Collages
Project Roadmap
Inspiration Wall
2 final art projects

What You Take With You

5 lessons
Lifetime access
A fresh way to see your surroundings with an artistic eye
Urban-style collage downloads
Urban inspiration board
Urban Field Guide
Urban Hunt Checklist (scavenger hunt)
Tiny Urban Collages
Finished art journal spread
Framed wall art
Access to private FB community

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What Students are Saying

Collect Inspiration Out in the Wild

Learn how to notice, collect, and work from bold urban details—like torn posters, worn surfaces, & street textures that most people walk right past.

Create Tiny Urban Collages

Turn your gathered colors, textures, signs, and found details into small collage studies that help you explore ideas before moving into a finished work of art.

Shape Your Final Art Pieces

See how gathered inspiration can move off the wall and into layered mixed-media work through small studies, experimentation, and finished pieces with personality.

When You Need a Fresh Way In

I’ll help you to:

Find creative starting points when inspiration feels low
Incorporate an urban / graffiti feel into your personal style, if you choose
Notice details when you are in your home or out and about - those lines, patterns, and textures. And then how to translate that into art.
Turn those photos from trips and travels into usable art ingredients
Start with small composition studies with my Tiny Urban Collages
Build finished art from the inspiration you gathered yourself

Peek the Contents

Lesson 1: See + Capture your surroundings like an artist
Learn how to notice color, texture, typography, lines, and little details around you—then photograph, collect, and save them as creative starting points.
Lesson 2: Remix your findings into usable art ingredients
Turn your photos, collected textures, and found details into collage papers, color ideas, marks, patterns, and pieces you can actually use in your art.
Lesson 3: Assemble an inspiration board
Bring your strongest finds together into a visual reference board so you can see your ideas, colors, textures, and materials in one place before you start creating.
Lesson 4: Play with Tiny Urban Collages
Use your remixed materials to create small collage studies that help you loosen up, test combinations, and build momentum without overthinking.
Lesson 5: Shape your final art pieces
Pull your favorite pieces, layers, colors, and textures together to create finished mixed-media art rooted in what you gathered along the way.

Frequently Asked Questions

Not at all. This course is about learning how to see your surroundings differently. Whether you’re in a small town, suburbs, or a city—there’s inspiration everywhere once you know what to look for.
You can start right from your studio. I’ll show you how to gather inspiration using your phone, past photos, and even a quick online “urban pull” so you can begin immediately.
Nothing fancy. Most of what we use is simple and accessible—paper, glue, printed photos, and a few basic art supplies. You can absolutely work with what you already have.
Not at all. This is designed to be approachable and low-pressure. You’ll be guided step-by-step, with small wins along the way so you never feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Perfect. This course will give you a fresh way to gather inspiration and a repeatable process you can come back to whenever you feel creatively stuck.
You’ll have lifetime access, so you can move through it at your own pace and revisit it whenever you need a creative reset. This content is all pre-recorded and instant access after purchase
Yes—I’d love to see what you create. You can tag me on Instagram @bethchienart or share inside my Facebook community, The Studio Table.
If you are not happy with this mini-course, let me know within 14 days and I will be happy to refund.
For this mini-course, it is all pre-recorded with no live sessions. However, I am available by email to answer any questions! And our FB community, The Studio Table, is a great place to share your work!

Meet the Artist

hey. hi. hello.

I’m Beth Chien, a mixed-media artist just outside Chicago, where I live with my husband and our two rescue goldens. After 25 years in the corporate world, I got the nudge I needed to finally go all in on art.

I’m especially drawn to the raw edge of cities—peeled posters, graffiti, worn surfaces, bold type, and unexpected color. Everyday Explorations: Downtown Edition is built from that love and designed to help you turn what you notice out in the world into art that feels layered, personal, and real.

Find me at @bethchienart over on IG

See How It All Comes Together

5 bite-sized lessons
Self-paced
Urban Hunt Checklist
Collage Downloads
Access to private Facebook community

join downtown edition for $20