Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process. We have a...
Lauren Hooper
Artist. American. Art Maker, Grace Giver, Photographer of Life, Laugh Enthusiast, Creativity Chaser, Believer in People, Adventure Seeker, Inspiration Aficionado, Street Food Lover, and DIY Fanatic.
Catalysts by Lauren Hooper
Find Your Style
We have a hack for finding your style and it doesn’t involve selling a kidney, so that’s a bonus.
How Lauren and Caylee Built a Business Out of Creative Habit
Artist SpotlightHi friends!! Welcome to the first Member Spotlight of 2016! We thought we would kick off this year with sharing some of our own experiences with art journaling to introduce ourselves to you a bit more. We try to feature the amazing...
Travel Journaling
Lauren and Vanessa are together in 3D in Korea and chat about their travel journal kits and what supplies they travel with.
Journaling Exercise: What do you need more of?
More#gmseasonofmoreWe're going to take our art to the next, deeper, level today. Grab a journal and pen and spend some time answering these four questions: What was the process of...
How to Collect and Translate Inspiration
Creativity First things first, you have to be willing to sit in the messy middle. That is where art + creation come alive. In that in-between stage of idea and art - where...
Turn Your Inspiration into Art
Creativity You are an artist. You have harnessed the world around you and have turned it into your own creation. Now, let's put it all together and make some art with it. I...
Creativity Prompts + Sidekick
Creativity Season of Creativity Art Journal Challenge:Create an art journal based on a book, movie, podcast, tv show, music, etc that makes your artist soul soar. Think about...
Make a quick accordion art journal
Creativity For this season, I thought long and hard about what type of journal would work best for my journal's theme: A Wrinkle In Time. I wanted something that was very...
Adding Texture Into Your Pages
(image by Tanyalee) Hi friends! Lauren here today to help you add some quick pizzaz to those kind of boring pages you may have. If you feel like your art journal pages are falling a...
Simple Paper Splicing
Hiya friends! Lauren here. In real life I have the amazing privilege of being friends with a Get Messy community member, Karen H. We actually work together and I'm pretty sure Karen is...
Lesson 6: Push Your Muse
Inspiration How To Push Your Muse FurtherFor our final lesson we are looking at the idea of chasing our muse as far as it can go. By now you have created many...
Lesson 2: How To Find Your Muse
Inspiration Now that you have a better idea of all the smaller influences that have helped shaped who you are and what you are interested in, its time we find...
Lesson 4: Create a Muse Dictionary
Inspiration How To Create a Muse Dictionary A 'Muse Dictionary' is simply a catalog of your muse and it's definitions, symbols, meanings, etc. It's a quick and...
Lesson 3: How to Dig into Your Muse
Inspiration Now that you have your muse, it’s time to dig into it! First, we’re all about creating here. So stop and make a page using your muse! You’re at a...
Lesson 1: Who Are You?
Inspiration Who are you? First, to figure out what we want to create about in the future, let’s take a stroll through the past and visit some of the...
Introduction to Creativity
Creativity Welcome to the Season of Creativity! I, Lauren, am thrilled to be here with you this month talking about, what I believe to be the most important skill an artist...
Keeping an Inspiration Journal
Creativity Pinterest is great for collecting ideas. But the problem is that so much of the time we just let them sit there...forever. Pinning beautiful images is a passive...
Inspo to Art Hangout Replay
Creativity Thanks so much to everyone who joined us live! We had a lot of fun creating a page based on images we love using this season's inspiration translating technique....
An Introduction to Using Media to Create Art
Creativity This month your challenge is to use media that ignites your creativity to create a themed art journal. Why media? Watch the introduction video where Lauren will...
Using Media In Your Art Journal In Action
Creativity Take a peek inside my art journals and see how I’ve created pages based on movies, books, podcasts and tv shows. If you’ve ever created any pages based on media in...
Media Art Journal Walkthrough
Creativity What a fun season this is. I am personally obsessed with reading, listening to podcasts, music and watching movies. It is one of my favorite personal hobbies and I...
How to Prep An Art Journal Kit
Creativity The key to success: planning! Truly. Even in our art, we can guarantee our own success is creating art we love and actually following through and creating the art...
More Depth: Watercolor Layering
More#gmseasonofmoreFor this workshop we are going to focus on adding more depth into our art process. Whatever that means for you, take your time, in these crazy times, and go deep...
Meet Lauren
More#gmseasonofmoreMeet Lauren, adventurer, crafter, and storyteller.Hi Get Messy! Lauren here! Im so thrilled to be back with you! What a crazy year it’s been since we last created...