Archer and Olive 2023

UNBOUND BOX 2 - MINDFUL MARK-MAKING

Guided Creative Experiences for your Wellness Journey

Hi everyone! Today we are excited to bring you the newest Unbound experience: Mindful Mark-Making, launching May 24, 2023.

Keep reading to learn more about UNBOUND and what is included in this experience!

Quarter 2: Mindful Mark-Making

Mindfulness is a state of being fully present in what you are doing, leaving outside distractions behind, allowing relaxation and calm. Mark-making is one way to facilitate a state of mindful awareness. In this box, we’ll take a wonderful trip through the relaxing world of mark-making as we couple shimmery pearlescent watercolor brushstrokes with fun patterns and layers using opaque gel pens in metallic and blue hues.

Unbound 2: Mark-Making Black Box

The box will include everything you need to get started:
Step-by-step project instructions accessed digitally
Detailed in-depth video tutorials guiding you through the project
Set of 3 Archer & Olive handmade pearlescent watercolor paints
1 - ¾” flat wash paintbrush
1 - Petal shaped paint palette
Set of 2 washi tape rolls (¼” and ⅛”)
1 - 8x8 Softcover Sketchbook with 20 pages of thick art paper (black)
1 - 8x8 Softcover Sketchbook with 20 pages of thick watercolor paper (white)
Set of 4 gel pens (metallic silver, metallic gold, blue, light blue)
Set of 5 Notecards with envelopes (black)

Unbound 2: Mark-Making Project Supplies

With the contents of this box, Lori will help you explore a variety of mark-making techniques, prompts, and styles including majestic mosaics featuring repeating patterns with geometric and organic shapes by drawing inspiration from the various shapes and patterns all around us. No drawing skills required! If you can make a mark on a page, you can do this project!

UNBOUND 2: Mark-Making Sketchbook Projects

With Lori’s detailed guidance, you’ll finish the course with a sketchbook of ideas, marks and patterns to use and explore further, including making beautiful art pieces and unique note cards to share, frame or simply enjoy for yourself.

UNBOUND 2: Mark-Making Notecard Projects

If this is your first time hearing about UNBOUND, here is some more information on what this experience is about:

What is UNBOUND?

It is our mission at Archer and Olive to share the empowering tool of creativity with as many people as possible. We strive to help people achieve their goals, exercise their creativity, and provide them with the tools to manage their mental health. We hope UNBOUND can bring these tools of creativity to a wider audience, and further help people with their mental health and wellness. Watch the promo video here:

UNBOUND is a guided creative experience designed to remove barriers and give you everything you need to start benefiting from creativity for your mental wellness. The experience will include a curated box of supplies and detailed video tutorials from an experienced artist.

Taking time to do something you enjoy, especially something creative, can positively benefit your mental health— but it can be difficult to know where to start or how to find the time. Life can move quickly with schedules, to-do lists, daily tasks, and unexpected things that pop up. We spend more and more time on our phones, computers, in meetings, or scrolling— and less time doing what truly brings us joy. We hope UNBOUND helps you break through these barriers to creativity by offering guided experiences and creative projects that are:
- appealing yet approachable
- guided yet freeing
- calming yet fun

Each quarter we will release fun, approachable projects with a valuable creative experience that we hope will leave you feeling encouraged, enlightened, and UNBOUND.

Meet Your Guide

To guide you through your creative journey, our resident artist and educator Lori George will be creating inspiring projects with guided instruction.

Lori George, an artist and educator, lives in the Midwest with her husband, four children, and Sunny, her beloved Great Pyrenees.

Creativity has played an important role in Lori’s life by helping her manage stress, anxiety, and grief.

Her hope is that these guided experiences will help you find a voice through expression, peace through the mindfulness of tactile experiences, and provide a much needed break from the day-to-day.

Find more about Lori on her Instagram page here.

Lori George - UNBOUND Artist and Educator

Join Lori each quarter for new inspiring projects, each designed to give you everything you need to start benefiting from creativity for your mental wellness.

Lori George - UNBOUND Artist and Educator

We are so excited for this experience to launch on May 24, 2023. As this box is being lovingly packed by one of our team members, it is currently only available for US shipping and it will ship separately from other items in your basket. Shipping will take up to 16 business days.

If you would like to get involved with the UNBOUND community, join our UNBOUND by Archer & Olive Facebook group here. The group will provide you a space to share your progress, ask questions and support the other members of this special community through encouragement and positivity.

Take the first step toward losing yourself in the process and finding yourself on the page!