Anything Goes! A Mixed-Media Notebook Practice with Kara Kramer & Carla Sonheim
Anything Goes!
A Mixed-Media Notebook Practice
With Kara Kramer &
Carla Sonheim
Carla Sonheim Presents: Kara Kramer
What if you just opened up a notebook to a random page every day and just let yourself go? In this Live Zoom class, Carla and Kara will give you prompts and inspiration in their own distinct styles to help you refine and enjoy your own. – Carla Sonheim
Anything Goes!
A Mixed-Media Notebook Practice
Instructors: Kara Kramer & Carla Sonheim
Prompts, Inspiration & Recorded Zoom Sessions
Original Class Run: February 2026
Kara and I want to invite you to join us for a special Zoom class!
Mixed-Media notebooks are a huge part of our creative practices… Kara is an accomplished children’s book illustrator and I try to to make drawing fun through books and online classes. We are different in our styles but alike in our approaches and this class will be a fun collaboration between us, our notebooks and you!
Kara has long called them her “Anything Goes” notebooks—because it’s more than a traditional sketchbook… it’s drawing, writing, collaging, painting, printmaking and pretty much a place to try anything at all.
For both of us in our distinct ways, the pages are a place for us to move with materials in any way we feel drawn to IN THE MOMENT… At best, it’s more for how it feels rather than how it looks at the end (though admittedly it can be hard to separate the two!).
In this email-and-Zoom-based class, we are hoping to create a time and space to help you get in conversation with your OWN way of keeping a notebook, to begin to recognize your voice, your hand, your expression… and to explore and experiment with that, even pushing the boundaries in terms of not knowing what will happen!
Please join us!
xoxo
Carla & Kara
This class in a nutshell:
• Emails. Each Monday, Wednesday & Friday during the month of February 2026, you will receive an “inspiration-showering” email from us with artwork, creative prompts, quotes & links, maybe a short video, and/or mini discussions about art and creativity, keeping Anything Goes notebooks, and life. See the schedule below on this page. These emails are now available as individual lessons.
• Zoom Sessions. Then, on Saturdays at 20:00 CEST/19:00 London Time, we will have 1.5-hour Zoom sessions where we work together on several more prompts, work on our notebooks in community, and have time to share at the end. (Four live Zoom sessions!) See the schedule for the live sessions below on this page. If you can’t attend a live session, don’t worry! The sessions will also be recorded; They are now available as individual lessons.
• Class Forums. There will be two community forums (via FB & Padlet) where we will share our notebook pages and be inspired by artists from all over the world.
This class is only available for customers
outside United States & Canada
If you live in The United States or Canada, please visit www.carlasonheim.com to purchase this class.
Price:
USD 59 (Outside EU)
EUR 65 (EU, 21% VAT incl.)
Examples of Kara Kramer’s work
Examples of Carla Sonheim’s work
Supplies
For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Materials” located at the top of this page.
Unlimited access
This gives you the opportunity to watch the class again and again, at your own pace, whenever you want, as often as you want. You can view it from your desktop, but also from your tablet or smartphone in a browser.
Nuts & Bolts
– Lessons & emails are set up as lessons and will be available immediately upon signup.
– You will have forever access to the class videos and materials!
Community
You will get access to the private Facebook group and a Padlet group (for those not on FB) will be available for you to (optionally) share your artwork and enjoy and learn from the artwork of others. You may also email your teacher directly with questions or feedback.
Supply List
Hi everyone! This class is called "Anything Goes" because it really is "anything goes" with the supplies, too!
So please just gather supplies you want to work with and want to try, including watercolors, inks, acrylic paints, markers, crayons, colored pencils... anything you have!
NOTEBOOKS:
As far as notebooks, but of us usually keep at least two going at the same time, one larger (8.5"x11" or 9"x12"), and one smaller (6"x6" or 5"x7"). We encourage you to use what you have on hand!
And it's perfectly okay for you to just choose one notebook for this class.
But if you need a starting point, here are some links to the kinds Kara uses:
And a link to Carla's spiral-bound notebook she uses for writing and notes in ballpoint pen (and the occasional mixed media piece):
https://www.dickblick.com/items/canson-xl-mix-media-pad-10-x-7-portrait-60-sheets/
(For Carla's main mixed-media notebook for this class, Carla is using a hand-sewn version made with watercolor paper that she made and started a few years ago... anything goes!)
Class Content
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Class Includes
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