Here are my ten favourite online art resources. These do skew towards book and journal arts as is my wont but believe me there is more than enough creative inspiration here for just about everyone.

While these sites offer lots of free options, please consider supporting them if your budget permits.

JEANNE OLIVER
This lovely teacher has assembled an array of talent to present art lessons on her website. She has both free and paid courses. Go here to subscribe to her newsletter and stay up to date with new courses and discounts on existing ones.

https://jeanneoliver.com/
https://jeanneoliver.com/course-home/...

FRANCESCA NUNES is a talented maker of journals and journal art using inspiration from nature and big oversize flowers in gorgeous just-dare-me colours. She has a free video class and an upcoming online workshop. Free but you need to register and the link is here.

https://heartmakes.franciscanunes.com...
https://heartmakes.franciscanunes.com...
https://paula-francisca-nunes-s-schoo...

LALY MILLE is another mixed media artist who never fails to get me up and making if I am in a slump. She is fun and exuberant and full of great ideas. She also has a free workshop coming up. It starts on 15 April so run like a bunny and sign up for your spot:
https://www.lalymille.com/flower-flow...

Here are links to her free art videos. Again, sign up for her newsletter for upcoming good stuff.
https://www.lalymille.com/videos
https://www.lalymille.com/art-journal

DANNY GREGORY and his SKETCHBOOK SKOOL. Even though Danny was not a trained artist he started sketching visual notes of what was going on right around him in the present moment. This led to his bestselling book Everyday Matters and a career in teaching and inspiring others to makeand keep sketchbooks. On his site you can access the free ebook "7 Deadly Sins of Creativity". He also has a email with weekly essays about creativity.
https://www.dannygregory.com/

Most of the courses on Sketchbook Skool do cost but there are other free resources on its website and its channel here on Youtube.
https://sketchbookskool.com/free-reso...
   / @sketchbookskool  

THE MARGINALIAN: Newsletter of ideas and images
This newsletter, formerly Brainpickings comes to your inbox twice a week and is a labour of love by Maria Popova who describes it as “…a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder”.

It is full of thoughtfully written and illustrated pieces that you will have you thinking and making. It is free and you can also donate your support for as little as $3 a month.
Sign up for The Marginalian here:
https://www.themarginalian.org/

BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY: Printable botanical images
If you're fascinated by nature and botanical illustrations, you'll be thrilled this open access digital library which contains over 100,000 vintage and antique images from hundreds of years of natural history publications.

The first link here is to their website which is very good but can be a lot to negotiate at first. The second link is for their account on Flickr. Follow that and you can open a free Flickr account and then access the images.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/b...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivl...

COFFEE WITH A CODEX: Video flip throughs of ancient books and manuscripts
You can join the staff of the Schoenberg Institute as they show and tell about some of their manuscript treasures from the 1200s to the 1700s with topics including cosmology, astronomy, psalters, books of hours, herbal music, breviaries, animals, and more. To sign up for the live showings go here:
https://www.library.upenn.edu/events/...

Or to see their past offerings in your own time, check them out here on Youtube at:
   • Coffee With A Codex  


And my very favourite site in the whole wide world -

PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW
This site and newsletter are dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain. Posts include fun, thought-provoking essays about people, some famous and some very much not so but who had enduring curiosity and a drive to follow it. YES, PLEASE! It is free for all but donate and support if you can.
https://publicdomainreview.org/

Please feel free to add your favourite free resources for art, creativity, and making in the comments below!