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Hi creative friend! In case you missed yesterday’s kickoff email for AI Exploration Week, we’ve started a series of short daily prompts to explore how AI can become a collaborator in your creative practice. 👉 You can catch up here if you’d like​

I’ve always believed that inspiration comes in fragments:

✨ A palette pulled from a photo captured on my hikes

✨ A messy page of mark that grows into a surface pattern collection

✨ A scribbled list of words that spark a workshop theme

Other times, it’s a hand-drawn mind map that feels like the beginning of a collection.

What if you could capture those sparks in one simple snapshot—then use AI to expand them into something bigger?

That’s what we’ll do together throughout the week and during AI Exploration Day, a free live 90-minute session happening next week.

You’ll create your first Artist Inspiration Card—a postcard-sized collage that blends your hand, your colors, your marks, and your words with just enough AI collaboration to spark new directions. Think of it as a visual postcard from your creative self.

Inside this live session, I’ll share how I use AI not to replace my voice, but to:

• Name palettes inspired by travels and photos to create my handcrafted paints
• Remix motifs into new layouts and compositions
• Spark collection ideas I hadn’t thought of yet

By the end, you’ll have a finished Artist Inspiration Card—the first piece in your Artist Style Guidebook.

📅 AI Exploration Day (free live session)

Join me LIVE in the studio for a session of creative PLAY, AI demos, and ideas to inspire and encourage your creative practice. Learn about how to use AI as a creative collaborator!

• Thursday, September 25 at 1:00pm PT/4:00pm ET
• Replay included ~ If you can't make the live session, the replay will be available for 7 days.

Join the live event for FREE or Upgrade to the VIP Experience!

SAVE YOUR SPOT NOW

✨ Want the full creative experience?

If you upgrade to the VIP Experience, you’ll also get:

• 🎨 A live Procreate mark-making PLAY date exploring the new 5.4 brush library
• 🖌️ A mixed media demo showing how I layer handmade + digital marks into Inspiration Cards
• 🤖 An exclusive demo + access to my Palette Mixer GPT (custom AI assistant)
• 📼 Extended replay access for one year
• 💬 Extra coaching + Q&A

🌈 Special 24-Hour VIP Bonus: Upgrade within 24 hours and you’ll receive a personalized Inspiration Card Reflection—that pulls a palette from your card, adds creative names, a mood/story note, and shares one idea for expanding it built in Notion via my Palette Mixer GPT.

Join the live event for FREE or Upgrade to the VIP Experience!

SAVE YOUR SPOT NOW

It’s designed for artists who want to play further, experiment digitally, and see how AI can expand their style.

Thank you for being part of this community and for continuing to grow, explore, and make with me.

PS — The free event is open to everyone, but the VIP upgrade is where the deeper play happens. Register for free or grab your spot in the VIP Experience.

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With creativity and color...

Artfully, xo Traci Bautista 💞 Founder, #tracibautistaCOLOR

If you have any questions reach out to customer care using the chat box at tracibautistacolor.com

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