In this YouTube live update, Christie Renee Hawkins marks the 5‑year anniversary of The Social Easel, a local paint‑night business that has grown from a college side‑hustle in Springfield, Missouri to a nationwide online community. She announces a series of celebratory promotions: a discounted local paint‑night on January 15 at The Pitch (code WINTER for $15 off the $45 session), a month‑long $15 price drop on individual online tutorial classes (normally $27 each), and the upcoming release of new tutorial content (Winter Birdhouse, Winter Chapel, Hydrangeas, Monet’s Garden, Sunflowers, Paris). Christie also introduces a new blog page that aggregates past live‑video technique lessons, promises weekly updates, and mentions a forthcoming kids‑painting tutorial library. Throughout, she encourages viewers to comment their location, request notifications by typing “notify,” and share ideas for future content, emphasizing community engagement and the expanded reach of her membership group across the US and Canada.
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Hey guys, I wanted to hop on here really quick because I'm finally getting back to normal after the holidays, and now I can focus on everything going on with the Social Easel again. So for those of you that don't know and maybe are newer to the Social Easel, I have been teaching local paint nights for the past 5 years. In fact, this January marks our 5-year anniversary. Anniversary. So 5-year birthday, whatever you want to call it. So I started thinking this morning, we need to celebrate in some way. And it's totally different now from when I started. When I started 5 years ago, this was not at all what it is today. And I thought it would be something small that I did on the side while I was finishing my graphic design degree in college. And God had other plans for me, and so here we are today. Hi, Miss Becky. Um, so typically what I would do, um, for my anniversary month is we do some kind of specials here locally, but my business has changed so much over the past year especially that now half of you that are on here with me don't even live in Springfield, which is so crazy to me because I remember when I started going online and I thought, how in the world am I ever gonna get outside of Springfield, Missouri? And now I have members in my group and fans on this page from all over the United States and Canada, and that's all just a little insane to me. So exciting! And if you're new on here, comment where you're from too. I love seeing all the different states and cities coming up. So can you guys all hear me okay? I hope so. Let me know if so. So anyways, it's 5 years, and so for that I wanted to do a couple different things. The painting behind me here, this is— thank you guys. Hi, Will. So this is— can you guys see that okay? I did this painting, I believe it was 3 years ago, and I have changed it a little, updated it just a bit, and it's been one of our favorite winter paintings. So we are doing this one locally next Tuesday night, which is January 15th, at The Pitch. It starts at 6:30 PM and Thank you so much, Gail. And we are doing a special, so there's gonna be a special on all my January paint nights. And yes, I'm a little behind in getting them posted. Normally I have my events up a month in advance, and that just didn't happen this year. So anyways, this one is next Tuesday, and I will post the code and the link for you when I jump off of here. Hold on, let me grab something really quick here. Sorry about that. So I'm gonna post the link below and the coupon code, but I am doing this paint night for $15 off, which I've never offered that big of a discount on any of my paint sessions. So the regular price is $45, and this is a 16 by 20 canvas. And if you sign up and use the code WINTER— and again, I'll put that link down there for you— you will get $15 off your session. So it's only going to cost you $30 to come to that paint night, and that is next Tuesday night here at The Pitch in Springfield. So for all you local fans, that is your first deal of the month for the 5-year anniversary special. And then the other thing that I'm doing, again, because so many of you are online now, if you are not here in Springfield and you can't take advantage of the local paint nights with me, you're gonna have an opportunity to to get some of the painting tutorials that I do with my membership group at a very discounted price. So right now, individual painting tutorials on my website sell for $27 apiece, and for the anniversary special, I am changing all of them for the month of January to only $15 per class. So these are online studio classes that you can take, and it's me walking you through the painting step by step. So this will be released later this month. So if you're not local and you want to do this painting, it will be up later this month for you to purchase. This is the second one I'm doing with my membership group this month. So we're doing our, the Winter Birdhouse and the Winter Chapel. So both of these are what I'm doing with my membership group this month. And then these are going to be single tutorials that you can buy also. And then just to show you a few more, like this one, I'll just grab this really quick. This is our hydrangeas. This is a super fun painting. They have turned out so pretty inside of our group. And then we have Monet's Garden, and we have, um, Sunflowers. We have Paris. So there's all kinds of online studio classes that you can get your hands on, um, only $15 a lesson. So again, this is me, you get me one-on-one. You can stop it, pause it, rewind it, do whatever you need to do, and it's an aerial view of me showing you step by step how to do these paintings. I give you the supply list and everything you need. The best part is that you can share this. You can do it yourself, like if you just want to paint on your own, you can do it yourself, or invite a group of your friends over and have your own paint night at your house. So you do have full access to this. You have lifetime access to it once you purchase the tutorial. So that's super exciting. It's a really good deal. And if you want to know, we have to get my website updated. So those are going to start going on sale tomorrow. So if you want to get notified of all the deals that I'm going to be doing for this entire month, get notified when the sale is up on my website, just comment notify. Below in the comments and we should be— all right, okay, I got my, I got my ManyChat set up. So as soon as you comment "Notified," you will get a message from me in your Facebook Messenger and you just have to reply back with a thumbs up and that will activate that. And then whenever my deals are live, you will be the first one to know and you will get a notification with a link to buy those tutorials. If you want to get a sneak peek, again, the prices haven't changed yet today. You can just go to thesocial easelonlinepaintstudio.com and they're all there for you. And well, this is— I forgot about this. This is something else that I've started as well. And this will be great for those of you that may be new to the Social Easel and you haven't been around for this past year because I've done so many different online live videos with you guys showing you different techniques and all that kind of stuff. Um, but they're all just in my live videos. So we have decided to create a blog post on my website where you can go back and access these videos and they'll be titled. So there's a new page on my website. That's my blog. Um, right now I think there's about 3 or 4 different blog posts up there and those are going to be updated every single week. So every week we're going to be sharing 1 to 2 new blog posts that are gonna have videos inside each one of those posts that are showing you techniques on how to paint. So again, this is something, something new I'm doing in addition to everything else, and I'm super excited about it, and it's gonna streamline things for you so you know exactly where to go when you feel like painting something and you couldn't remember where you saw that. I'm gonna have it all organized in my blog post, so you'll be able to find it by title and paint, whatever it is that you're looking for at that time. So I hope you guys are excited about some of the deals. What else was I going to show you? Okay, so this is coming up. Oh, and I'll show you this. This is something I'm working on, and this is for my local classes. So I'm going back in, and I'm going to be adding some more trees to it, and I'm going to be editing my bridge just a little bit and adding some cardinals in the tree. So this is going to be a new painting that I'm going to be doing in January locally as well. So that one is coming up and we'll have another— I'll make sure and post another Facebook deal for when this one goes up live. If this looks like something— the beginning of something, it's not done yet— if this looks like something you guys want to see online as well, just comment and say yes, yes, we like that one, whatever. You can leave me your feedback. And then lastly, I just want to know what you want for this year. So it's a brand new year, brand new opportunities, all kinds of ideas going through my head of what to offer you guys this year. What do you want to see, like subject matter, style, that kind of thing? What do you want to see from the Social Easel online? And if you're interested in the membership or the online classes that I offer, what what would you like to see for those? So typically my live videos are little tips and tricks that I show you guys, and then if you want the full painting and the full start-to-finish supply list, all that good stuff, that's where the membership comes in. And that is where you can buy the online classes if you want to do something like that. So just comment "notify" below and you will get all the information and anything new that I come up with. And then if you have any ideas of what you want to see me paint or come up with this year, you can let me know. I am currently working on building my video library of kids' painting tutorials too for something that I'm working on towards the middle of 2019. So hopefully, fingers crossed, that all goes smooth and I get it all organized and there may be something for the kids. Very soon around the corner. So lots of new things, and that's about it. If you joined late, it's my 5-year anniversary. We're doing 5-year anniversary specials all month long. This painting, if you're local, we're doing it next Tuesday night. It's $15 off with the code WINTER. Make sure you put that code in to save the, the $15 off. And then this will also be an online class that you can purchase as well, and all my online classes are going to go on sale for $15 a month. Or I'm sorry, $15 each this month. So those are the deals I got going on for you right now. And if you want to keep up with all the new ones that I come up with, just comment "notify" and I will be sure to get you, get you the deals as I come up with them. So look forward to seeing you guys later this week. I'll probably pop back on and we'll do a lesson later this week, a couple techniques for you. All right, bye!
