Less pouting. More painting. ✨✏️☕

Creative Espresso

One year of weekly Creative Espressos: 50 drawing and painting prompts to get you making things instead of thinking about making things.

Temporarily €33 instead of €111 • one payment • lifetime access.

Sick of your own bullshit yet? 💩

How many times have you told yourself: “I really need to start drawing again.”

And yet... you don’t.

Every Friday night, you picture a wildly different version of yourself. The one with the cool apron. The glitter ink. The perfectly sharpened pencils.. The sketchbook casually lying open on the table because, obviously, this is the weekend you become the sort of person who spends entire afternoons making beautiful things.

Then Sunday night rolls around.

You’re horizontal on the couch watching a murder documentary, brushing potato chip crumbs off your sweater like THAT’S the problem.

Meanwhile, your sketchbook is gathering dust. Or serving as an expensive coaster for a mug of cold tea.

You miss her. The version of you who used to disappear into a sketchbook for hours. Who lost track of time. Who accidentally dipped her paintbrush into her coffee and kept painting anyway. That feeling of being completely absorbed in what you’re making. That feeling of coming back to yourself.

It kind of hurts.

Am I right?

I get you. I used to think: Nah. I draw often enough. Until I realized I hadn’t touched my sketchbook for an entire year. 😬

Listen, sweetheart. You’ve got a rare-ass gift. You want to sketchbook. (Yes, that’s a verb.) But you’re missing focus. Momentum.

A reason to begin.

And that’s exactly what I’m giving you.

Sweetheart, I’m going to be brutally honest with you for a second. 👻

Being creative is not watching 100 YouTube videos with a family-sized bag of Doritos balanced on your lap.

It’s not checking Instagram ten times a day in case some Paris gallery owner suddenly thinks: “That woman with the untouched markers in her drawer. THAT’S our next discovery.”

It’s not becoming emotionally invested in a stranger’s washi tape storage system. Or spending forty-five minutes researching sketchbooks instead of actually using one.

You’re not some weak-ass oat milk latte. You’ve simply become frighteningly good at procrastination.

Two very different things.

You’ve spent so long taking care of what had to be done that the things that feed you quietly drifted into the background.

Creative Espresso won’t fix your life.

But it will put your inner excuse factory out of business for a few minutes every week. It will put your overactive bullshit brain on a leash.

Long enough for you to open your sketchbook.

Pick up a pencil. And make something. 🌶️

Why you’re in the right place.

I’m Marenthe. Award-winning artist. Founder of The Art Beat Club. Thirty-five years in the creative trenches and still wildly enthusiastic about cheap paint.

I've worked for Hallmark, Heineken, Oilily, Philips, museums, and government organizations. Phaidon Press named me one of the hundred most visionary designers in the world. Lilla Rogers dragged me across the Atlantic after I won her Global Talent Search.

Very nice.
Very impressive.
Excellent material for LinkedIn.

But that’s not the real reason you should be here.

The real reason is that I know exactly what it feels like to avoid your sketchbook as if there’s a debt collector hiding inside it.

That guilt. That endless “I’ll start tomorrow” nonsense.

Here’s the problem:

Your head has your heart in a chokehold. 😭

So what do you do? You buy more markers. You save another 847 tutorials. You screenshot Rebecca the Influencer and Sara the Super Artist. You watch impossibly serene women in linen dresses painting watercolors on Italian balconies while the sunlight magically hits their cheekbones. As if one more set of art supplies is finally going to change everything.

Meanwhile, your creativity gets buried under a mountain of excuses wearing a lavender bow.

And frankly?

That’s got to stop.

My track record in 4 quick shots

  • 1

    Phaidon Press USA named me one of the 100 most visionary designers in the world. I won the Global Talent Search in the U.S. My work’s been published all over the damn planet.

  • 7

    years running The Art Beat Club. 25 courses created. 1,000+ creatives worldwide. 500+ reviews (and just one who said “meh”).

  • 10+

    international awards bagged (New York Art Directors Club, New York TDC, Tokyo TDC, Dutch Design Awards, European Design Awards, Global Talent Search).

  • 100+

    Clients galore: Elle Girl Korea, Flow (yep, I did that stationery box too), Heineken, Philips, PostNL (22 stamps, baby), Happinez, Hallmark USA, Oilily (my baby literally ended up in their catalog 😅), Parool, fashion designers, celebs, and a few captains of industry just to round it off.

Not my words. Theirs.

  • “Marenthe’s work stands out while speaking a universal language: the language of the heart.”

    Eveline Helmink
    HAPPINEZ

  • “You’re such a gifted person with a beautiful vibe.”

    Lilla Rogers
    Founder Make Art That Sells, Illustrator, Agent, USA

  • “Marenthe is, to us, a little like the Dutch Keri Smith.”

    Astrid van der Hulst
    FLOW MAGAZINE

  • “Marenthe is my Muse.”

    Anne Quaars, Messaging Artist & Speaker

  • “Nothing but praise. The Art Beat Club is all about inspiration, beauty, and joy. This is the best club ever!” ❤️

    Sharon Nullmeyer
    Artist, Art Beat Angel

  • “Marenthe, you’re so unique, inventive, and imaginative in how you see the world.”

    Frankie van Mourik
    Artist

  • “Marenthe’s courses make me genuinely happy and proud of myself.”

    Sarah Coulter
    Artist, Art Beat Angel

  • “You create a space that is supportive of individual learning. You are a very effective online mentor.”

    Susanlora Morris
    Artist

They’re already in the game 😉

Hungry for more?

Good. Here’s the full spread you’re getting:

✅ 50 creative jolts designed to drag you out of creative neutral and back into making things. ✏️

✅ A fresh prompt in your inbox every Friday. Like having a very persistent creative friend who won’t let your sketchbook collect dust.

✅ One year from now: a sketchbook full of artwork instead of good intentions.

✅ Lifetime access to the academy. No deadlines. No panic. No “I missed a week so now I’m doomed.”

✅ An international community of creative optimists cheering each other on.

✅ 50 printable goodies to keep your creative engine purring.

✅ Thirty-five years of my creative brain, condensed into one course so you don’t have to learn everything the hard way.

Here’s how it goes down:

  • 1.

    You buy → you blast off.
    Sign up = instant access. Bam. No waiting, straight into the fun.

  • 2.

    A new assignment every Friday.
    Ping → inbox. Click → sketchbook open. In the academy, your assignment is ready, spelled out with images that’ll give you butterflies.

  • 3.

    You call the shots.
    Want the weekly flow? Perfect. Skip a week? Fine. Take 50 months? Bit long, but hey, still counts. 🤷‍♀️

  • 4.

    Let it simmer.
    Some prompts you’ll dive into right away. Others you’ll let marinate a bit. Both totally fine.

  • 5.

    Share or lurk in the community.
    The international Facebook group is the place to show off, snoop, get inspired. Full of cheerleaders. Sweet.

  • 6.

    End result = a joybook packed with YOU.
    A year later you flip through and think: holy sh*t, I made all this. Collages, drawings, paintings — a joybook brimming with play, flow, and creative freedom.

Who it is (and isn’t) for

✅ Creative Espresso is for you if…

✅ You’re craving more joy and flow in your (creative) life.
✅ Your sketchbook has been gathering dust for way too long (and it kinda stings).
✅ You already know how to hold a brush or pencil, or where to buy paint — and mostly you’re just itching to actually use it.
✅ You’re into surprises. 🌪️
✅ You’d love a weekly creative kick-in-the-butt (delivered with love 💕).

⛔ Creative Espresso is not for you if…

⛔ You’re looking for 1:1 coaching, hand-holding, or therapy.
⛔ You think: “teach me to perfectly draw portraits in 5 lessons” → wrong course, babe.
⛔ You only want tutorials you can copy line for line and end up with exactly the same thing as me. (Spoiler: I’ll throw you off balance on purpose, so you discover your own style.)
⛔ You’ve literally never touched a brush and don’t know what paint is. Then this might be a bridge too far. 😉

What you do get: an easy-to-navigate academy with step-by-step prompts, images, and inspiration that’ll bring a smile to your face. You might even walk away with a portfolio you can pitch or sell. (It’s happened before. Just saying.)

Because your sketchbook deserves a summer fling, too:

€111‍ ‍€33

 

Approximately $38 USD or £28 GBP.

“It’s pure joy to spend time with inspiration-bomb Marenthe — with her, you get to restore the source of your own creativity and drink straight from the stream.”

Truus Druyts, performance coach, actress, artist

The Bullshit Bingo of Your Brain:

This might be the part where your head starts whispering things like…

“I don’t have time.”

Sweetheart. You don’t have “no time.” You have a phone that’s behaving like an emotional vacuum cleaner. Delete Instagram for a week and suddenly you’ll discover something fascinating:

Time.

Also less thumb fatigue and slightly less existential dread.

“I always start excited and never finish.”

Welcome. Grab a chair. There are cookies.

Because that’s exactly what happens when your creative brain is simultaneously trying to:
Learn watercolor.
Open an Etsy shop.
Develop a signature style.
Redesign an entire studio.
And suddenly consider taking up ceramics because your best friend made three gorgeous hand-painted mugs and now you’re questioning everything. 💀

Your problem isn’t talent. Your problem is that your creative attention occasionally behaves like a Labrador puppy.

“Am I even a real artist?”

Oh my God.

YES!!!

Think back to when you were a kid.
You.
With your lopsided tree. Your glue-covered fingers. The scissors you used to accidentally give your doll an extremely unfortunate haircut.

Did you sit there thinking: “Hmm. Perhaps I should spend some time critically evaluating my visual language.”

Of course not. You just made stuff. That’s what creativity is. Being curious enough to begin. The only difference is that now your grown-up brain keeps barging in like it just got promoted to Director of Fun.

“Is this good enough?”
“What if I fail?”
”Maybe I should compare seventeen more courses first.” 😭

Meanwhile, the creative part of you wants something much simpler.
Paper. Paint. A little life.

And that’s exactly what we’re here for.

 
 
 

“I’ve taken over 100 online art classes and retreats in the past 10 years. But wow — I never imagined a course could hit this hard. It blew my expectations out of the water by a light-year.”

Kimberly Owen, Texas

Questions I know you’re probably still whispering to yourself (because hey, wanting it this bad is also kinda scary, right?):

  • Didn’t we just cover this?

    Time is usually a cover-up. You have time — you just spend it scrolling, doubting, arguing with your inner control freak. That eats hours and gives you nada. Snatch some minutes back and, boom: space for something that actually feeds you.

  • Congrats, you’re human.
    Perfectionism isn’t a disease. The only cure is: sit down and make something. Once you stop expecting miracles, the pressure fades and fun sneaks in.

  • If you can hold a pen and write a grocery list, you can do this. Creative Espresso isn’t about art school diplomas. It’s about messing around, experimenting, and playing.

  • So what. Quitting isn’t the end of the world — as long as you pick it back up again.
    Creative Espresso isn’t about never failing. It’s about falling, standing up, and carrying on.

    Pro tip: schedule your skip days. Built-in guilt relief.

  • Right after you sign up. Then every Friday at 7:00 AM — ping, new prompt in your inbox.

  • Immediately. Lifetime access, baby. Unless the internet collapses or aliens invade. Then we’ll all have bigger problems.

  • Today. Tomorrow. Christmas morning. You choose.

  • Hell yes. Fill in your details + theirs, pay, and, boom: a gift that lasts way longer than a bottle of wine.

  • Your inbox doesn’t have a pause button. You do. Skip a few weeks, stash the emails, hop back in later. Zero judgment.

  • Nope — and honestly, you’ll love that. No forced homework, no awkward Zoom calls. Just you and your creativity.

  • Didn’t click? Send me an email within 7 days (hallo@marenthe.nl) and I’ll refund you. No questions, no drama.

  • Nope. This is the upgrade. Creative Espresso blends the best of Summer Art School 2023 + 2024 and turns it up a notch: sharper design, more polished prompts, fresh inspiration.

So, what do you say? Ready to roll?

Alright, no fluff 👇

🔥 Ditch that dusty sketchbook you’ve been using as a coaster.
🔥 50 weeks of inbox inspiration — tighter than your coffee routine.
🔥 A creative flow that finally shuts your perfectionist up.
🔥 A sketchbook bursting at the seams with your wild ideas.
🔥 More guts, fewer excuses.

Bottom line: you free your head, your heart gets oxygen, and your work finally breathes the value it deserves.

And yes — you want this. ☕🚀

 The end 🙃