A New Website Is Coming Soon!

I’m in the middle of creating a fresh online home for The Journey: Art for Healing. A place where my classes, events, artwork, and offerings can finally live together in one beautiful space.
It’s unfolding step by step, and I’m so happy you’re here while it comes to life.

Current Classes — Creative Arts Inc., Crystal Lake, registry for all classes and pop-ups through Creative Arts,Inc. Creative Arts supplies most of the tools you’ll need! See our website for full class descriptions and supplies.

• Pencil and Colored Pencil Technique  — Adults
Foundational skills. Learning to see as an artist. all levels welcome.

Monday 10AM – 11:30PM  /Crystal Lake

Pencil & Colored Pencil Open Studio — Adults
Guided support, relaxed atmosphere, all levels welcome.

Monday 11:30 – 1:00PM  /Crystal Lake

Pencil & Colored Pencil Open Studio — Adults
Guided support, relaxed atmosphere, all levels welcome.

Thursday 5:30 -7PM /Crystal Lake

• Youth Open Studio – Pencil, Marker,
Colored Pencil & Watercolor. Kids & Teens
For focused young artists who love to draw. ​​

Thursday 4 – 5:30PM

• Graphite Toolkit Foundations (seasonal)
A deeper dive into seeing like an artist.  This will be 6 week intensive online class, designed to change the way you see. This is the exact information that will help draw out your ‘style’; your personal way of perceiving the world.
This is not a class about drawing. It’s about helping you understand experientially what brings an object to life and how you communicate what you see to your intended audience. Your drawing will improve as you supplement your natural ability with the mastery of the basics; pencil, eraser and blender. Everything else is practice – this will build your unique foundation of expression.

Zoom class, Wednesday 6 -7pm, January dates TBA via Creative Arts website

Events & Gatherings

See my artwork on display at Aroma, downtown Crystal Lake all through November!

• The Muse Sessions — weekly creative community.

Crystal Lake, at The Other Side, Thursday 10 – 12 $20 at the door.

Woodstock, at The Food Shed Co-op, Friday 10-12 $20 at the door.

• Wednesday Writers Room — gentle accountability + inspiration. Held at The Food Shed Co-op in Woodstock, Wednesday 10-11:30 FREE

• Death Café — monthly conversations on living + dying well. Held at The Food Shed Co-op,

Woodstock, Third Wednesdays, next one: Nov.19, 5 – 7 pm, FREE.

• Lunar Lounge — monthly new-moon circle + intention-setting gathering. Held at The Huntley Art Hub Gallery, Friday, Nov 21 3-4:30

Friday, Dec 19 3-4:30. FREE

• Frost Moon Faire. Creative Arts celebration of student and adult art. Madrigals, food, games,fun.

Crystal Lake, The Dole Mansion, Sat Nov 15, 10 -2

Stay Connected

More updates, reflections, and creative offerings will appear here while the new site is being built.
Thank you for being part of this unfolding.

Reach me directly: janet@janetbalboa.com

Prints of my work are available as 11 x 14, signed and sleeved in protective covers.