A cozy place to color, create, and belong
Welcome to the Cozy Coloring Circle
You’ve spent a lifetime looking after everyone else. Now it’s your time to create and color again. A private online retreat just for you, away from Facebook, warm, playful and peaceful.
The Cozy Coloring Circle is your online creative home. Come and join us with 14 days free to look around, no pressure at all.
I’d Like To Take A Peek Inside
This is your creative home
A place to color, create, and belong
The Cozy Coloring Circle is a gentle place where creative discoveries unfold before your eyes, one pencil stroke leading to the next. I’ll lead you along a relaxed pathway as you explore different ways to use your pencils, paints and brushes, and you’ll be amazed at what your materials can do. Use ordinary supplies from your local supermarket, what you already have, or something special from the art store. The choice is completely yours.
At the heart of it, a circle of kind, caring women, learning and sharing life together, relaxed chatter over coffee and cake, the way old friends do. Not a class to finish. A place to belong. A place where you’re supported.
Cindy Wider, Founder
A Word from Cindy
“I created this retreat for women who love color, who love a little playfulness in their day, and who want somewhere warm to bring that joy.
It’s a private online coloring and drawing retreat, tucked away from Facebook and all its noise, with its own cozy app just for us. A place to escape into color, imagination, and gentle creativity, together.
My intention has always been the same. To create somewhere cozy, friendly, and full of encouragement. A place where women feel free to color just for the joy of it, with kindness all around them.”
What you will discover inside the Cozy Coloring Circle
- A guided coloring pathway, discovering pencils, strokes, techniques, and the wonderful things your materials can do
- Easy, inexpensive ways to color using everyday items and supermarket finds, alongside optional quality materials
- A library of bite sized drawing and coloring courses, each finished in under half a day, always something new to pick up and enjoy
- Cindy’s Character Illustration Course, her much loved children’s book illustration course, for anyone drawn to story and character
- Fun printables to enjoy yourself or share with children and grandchildren, for lighthearted togetherness time
- A warm, private online retreat, away from Facebook, where women from around the world color and create together
- Your own cozy little app, so your creative escape is always with you, just your circle, no other noise
- Cindy’s gentle encouragement woven through everything, you’re never coloring alone
Show Me Inside
This is for you if…
You’d love to learn more about colored pencils, drawing, and painting, in a relaxed way that doesn’t even feel like learning. A guided pathway, from your very first strokes to so much knowledge about color, technique, and all the wonderful things your materials can do, with me right beside you every step, no pressure, no experience needed.
You’re ready for a private retreat that understands this moment in your life, away from Facebook and its noise. A warm circle of women to belong to, and something that’s entirely, joyfully yours.
What coloring alone looks like
And what the Cozy Coloring Circle changes
Without the Cozy Coloring Circle:
- You color for a while, then it drifts away with everything else
- You run out of ideas and aren’t sure what to try next
- It stays a quiet, separate thing, tucked away from the rest of your life
- The joy fades without much to keep it going
With the Cozy Coloring Circle:
- You show up because your circle is there waiting for you
- You always have Cindy’s guidance and a library of projects to choose from
- Coloring becomes part of your week, your conversations, your sense of fun
- The joy stays with you, warm, calm and steady throughout your day
How the Cozy Coloring Circle works
Simple. Warm. Built around your life
01: Join the Circle
The moment you join, your private retreat and full course library are open and waiting.
02: Choose where to begin
Pick a bite sized project you can finish in half a day, or settle into the Character Illustration Course. Not sure where to start? Just ask in the community chat, Cindy will point you in the right direction.
03: Colour and draw alongside Cindy
The high definition recorded color-alongs and draw-alongs are where the magic happens. Cindy guides you through every step, unhurried and warm, no experience is needed, she shares everything you need.
04: Find your circle
Fellow members, mostly women in their 50s, 60s and beyond, are coloring right alongside you in your private retreat, sharing their work and cheering yours on, all away from the rest of the world and Facebook.
05: Let the joy grow
This isn’t about becoming a “good artist.” It’s about having a warm peaceful escape that’s entirely yours.
From women who made the shift
Women who discovered their creative retreat
“I spent the last half century believing I could not draw. Cindy helped me realise what I once thought impossible is absolutely possible. We are all creative souls, yet at some point in our lives we begin to believe we are not. With each exercise I see improvement in my drawing and colouring skills. I believe I can, with practice, make continuous progress. It is truly a beautiful and replenishing experience.”
– Shirin Shamsi, USA
Your guide, Cindy Wider
The woman who knows you are creative
35 years. Thousands of women. One steady belief, everyone has color and creativity in them.
Cindy Wider is a Creativity and Coloring Coach, Art Therapist, author, and artist based in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.
For over three decades she’s helped women rediscover the simple joy of drawing and color.
She created the Four Comparison Skills, comparing angles, sizes, tones, and spaces, the same skills you already use every day without realising it.
The Cozy Coloring Circle is the warm, playful retreat she’s built for exactly this, women who just want somewhere joyful to color and belong.
Join the Cozy Coloring Circle
- The Character Illustration Course, Cindy’s children’s book illustration course
- A full library of bite sized courses, draw-alongs, color-alongs, and printables
- Projects across colored pencil, watercolor pencil, ink, acrylic, graphite and more
- A warm, private online retreat with a handy app, away from Facebook
- Your own pace, your own creative escape, no pressure, no expectations
- Instant access from the moment you join
“I’d Like To Take A Peek”
14 days free to look around, no pressure at all.
There are only 1000 seats in the Cozy Coloring Circle worldwide.
We’d love one of them to be yours, if it feels right.
What you might be wondering
I haven’t drawn or colored since I was a child. Is this really for me?
Completely. Every course, color-along and draw-along is designed for all levels, including complete beginners. You already have everything you need, the Cozy Coloring Circle simply helps you enjoy it.
I tried drawing and coloring before and stopped. What makes this different?
Community, consistency, and Cindy. With a warm circle of women coloring alongside you in your own private retreat, a course library always waiting, and Cindy showing up daily, stopping becomes much harder, and coming back is easy.
How much time does it take each week?
As much or as little as you like. The bite sized courses finish in less than half a day, (sometimes even 60 to 90 minutes.) The retreat is there whenever you want it, and there’s no right way to belong here.
What if I want more than the Cozy Coloring Circle?
The Cozy Coloring Circle is the heart of Cindy’s community. For women who’d love something deeper and more personal, the 12 Week Creative Identity Transformation Program runs twice a year for a small group.
“All it takes is one small ember to light up a whole new joy.”
That ember is already in you. It has always been in you.
The Cozy Coloring Circle is where it becomes a warm little flame you carry with you, everywhere.
Come and join us. We’ve been waiting for you.