✨ Behind-the-Scenes of My Wild Watercolor Live Stream Life 🎥✨

Welcome to another inspiring episode of the Watercolor Wizardry Journey with Zarah McIntosh! In this tell-all update, Zarah shares her behind-the-scenes process of rebuilding her online art academy, Watercolor Wizardry Academy, from the ground up. Discover the power of aligning your creative business with your true passion as Zarah explains why she chose to scrap her previous program and start fresh, focusing on hyper-realistic watercolor artistry.

Zarah discusses her favorite live streaming platforms—including YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more—and breaks down the brand-new weekly schedule of live watercolor paint-alongs, exclusive community hangouts, and private Academy sessions. Whether you’re a beginner artist or an experienced creative, Zarah’s candid story of transformation offers motivation for anyone launching an online business, teaching art, or building a supportive community.

Learn about the benefits of joining Watercolor Wizardry Academy in its beta phase, from daily live check-ins and replays, to foundational workshops, progress tracking, and the importance of authentic, daily storytelling inspired by Zarah’s mentorship with Evelyn Weiss. Plus, get practical insights into using Kajabi for online courses and connecting with fellow artists in a vibrant digital space.

If you’re passionate about watercolor painting, hyper-realism art, creative entrepreneurship, or simply seeking honest insight into the artist’s journey, this episode is for you. Subscribe now, join the creative community, and follow Zarah’s journey as she blends artistic mastery, personal growth, and business building from the heart.

Keywords:
watercolor art, hyper-realistic watercolor, art academy, online art course, live paint along, creative entrepreneurship, Kajabi, online art community, teaching watercolor, daily artist updates, art business, authentic artist journey, building online business, art mentorship, artist community, Watercolor Wizardry, Zarah McIntosh

[00:00:01] Zarah:
Hey, everybody, this is Zara again with Watercolor Wizardry, where we're currently building the academy from the ground up. And today I'm giving you the lay of the land of all of our live streams. Actually, it's all the different ways I go live. So let's see. Why do I go live stream? It's. I love live streams. My favorite platform actually is Twitch for live streams. My Twitch streams are not set up because I.

[00:00:32] Zarah:
I'm not consistent and I. There's so much to learn with all the different platforms, but watching other people's streams. Twitch is my favorite. They really have it down. It's my favorite platform. Okay. Anyway, so, yeah, let's break down the schedule. Okay, so live streams for everybody on the planet.

[00:00:58] Zarah:
My favorite to show up on is on YouTube, although I will be on Twitch X LinkedIn, if you can imagine. Where else? Kik? Facebook. Yeah, Facebook page. Anyway, and I think that's it. Maybe a couple other platforms that I'm not remembering. So we're gonna be there. And it is Watercolor Wizardry. Wednesday Paint alongs.

[00:01:30] Zarah:
So it's every Wednesday, 3:30 to 4:30pm Pacific time. YouTube is my favorite because I can chat easily or I use Restream to multi stream. And they're. I feel like they're best set up with YouTube. So that's the place I recommend watching me. Plus, it helps me with the algorithm gods, you know, on YouTube. So, yeah, so it's. This is an everyone public, worldwide livestream every Wednesday.

[00:02:01] Zarah:
So the vibe will be chill. It's whatever I'm working on and I'll talk about whatever's on my mind. You know, it's the same for every live stream, pretty much. Except for in Academy. I'm much more focused on actually talking about. I go into teaching mode. Even though I try to not talk and just paint when the camera is on. I feel like I need to entertain the other side.

[00:02:28] Zarah:
I don't know. I'll get better at things. Okay, so next on the schedule would be the creator community on Kajabi. This is everybody that's ever gotten in contact with me signed up for anything. So it could be people from business wizardry, it could be people from Watercolor wizardry or Creator Vodcast. So it's just everybody together in one big family, and it's the creator community. And for that group, it's on Sundays and it's. No, it's not.

[00:03:01] Zarah:
It's Saturdays. What? It's on Saturdays and Saturdays, 3:30 to 4:30pm and it's the Saturday studio weekly hangout. And then. Yeah, so that's on the creator community in Kajabi. If you've ever connected with me in some way, shape or form, then you have a membership in Creator Community. Foreign. Let's see you. You would be able to log in and find out if you go to watercolor wizardry.com or Zara McIntosh.art, that'll get you there too.

[00:03:42] Zarah:
And log in and if you forgot your password, you know, set it up that way. Yeah. So that'll be Saturdays. So that'll be more of the private. A little bit private. More private versus the whole world. And then let's see. And then the private group, Watercolor Wizardry Academy.

[00:04:04] Zarah:
This group gets me right now scheduled every day. So I've scheduled it for every morning Pacific time. 8:30 to 9:30. Flexible start. Of course. My usually I'm on earlier and then I stay later if it makes sense. But usually by that time I need to go do something else or something. Okay.

[00:04:30] Zarah:
Like the bathroom, you know. All right, so that'll be inside the community for the academy, also on Kajabi. So that'll be for the private group in the academy. So yeah, that's just an easygoing live stream. It's not a, you know, official workshop or anything like that. But I kind of get it. You can ask me anything, you know, ask me what I'm doing as I'm doing it. But my goal in all of these streams right now is to complete the pair, you know, just get, get the lessons going.

[00:05:06] Zarah:
So replays on YouTube. Yep, they keep replays of all the live streams for Creator Community. It'll. You'll see it in the meetup events, all the past meetups. And then for Academy it'll be under meetup events for Watercolor Wizardry Academy. Yeah, so that's what I did today. Kind of organized my brain on all of the different schedules and so I apologize for everybody that's in my, you know, world because you probably got a couple emails about cancels and reschedules stuff today. I'm sorry.

[00:05:48] Zarah:
But it's settled now, you know, for now. So hopefully this will be the schedule ongoing. You know, obviously it might change. So yeah, you'll always have replays of the. The live stream so you don't have to show up live. You can always, you know, re watch if you want or scan through whatever, whatever you want. So yeah, so the schedule's pretty set, but you know, it's always going to be evolving and right now this one feels good. I'm committed to showing up even though it's imperfect.

[00:06:24] Zarah:
I'm gonna try my best to show up all the time. Granted, the daily for the Academy, I already know, you know, life happens. Okay. So just know that I'm trying my best to show up all the time, so. But, yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll have to, you know, skip out once in a while just because I already know my life is kind of unpredictable, so. But I'll keep showing up, even though it's messy. So, yeah, if you want to be a part of actually learning watercolor a more focused way, join the Academy. It's in beta right now, so it's pretty bare, but it's the lowest price that you can get in.

[00:07:08] Zarah:
And, yeah, we're building the workshops. It's focused on hyperrealistic right now. Yeah. And once you get in, your rate is locked. So as long as your membership stays active, it won't go up for you. But once we relaunch, it's going to. You know, the price will always increase every time we relaunch it. So, yeah, right now it's open, and it'll stay open until the seats are filled and.

[00:07:36] Zarah:
Or, you know, lessons get built. All right, so that's all I wanted to say. This has already gone longer than planned. I only wanted five minutes. Okay, so I'll talk to you guys later. I will see you on a live. A live stream. All right, Soon.

[00:07:54] Zarah:
Talk to you later. Bye.