Ubuntu Hello everybody! This is TC, and I’m so glad to be back with you for another tutorial, this one using alcohol inks on a different substrate, something called Duralar. I’m...
Ubuntu KELLEE Kellee Wynne Conrad is the creator of Color Crush Creative, a thriving, internationally followed Instagram community of color loving artists and the online...
Ubuntu Hi, it’s Moriah again and today I want to show you a technique you can use to explore the concept of justice. When I first found out about Ubuntu, I immediately...
The Season of Freedom is for uninhibited creating, journaling without restraint, embracing the mess in art and life, venturing into the unknown, expressing yourself, letting go of fear and doubt, and release. Prompts, tutorials, interviews, and challenges await you as you tackle the idea of what freedom means to you in your life and in your art. Go bold with hand lettering, try out collography, paint ethereal watercolour butterflies, use acrylic mediums to build layers, practice painting fast and slow, and more. Guest Artist, Ali Brown, shows you how to liberate yourself with abstract painting and joy notes. Let your art reflect your truest self and desires.
Ubuntu Hi, lovely Messians! It’s Divyam here and I’m totally excited to share with you this tutorial for the Season of Ubuntu. This season feels like a great moment to include...
Ubuntu Basic Supplies: Large sheet of smooth medium weight paper like Arches hot press - 22”x30” 90lb/185gsm Fluid paints in favorite colors like Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint Brayer...
Ubuntu Happy Wednesday friends! Tiffany here again and sharing with you my take on Ubuntu. Since we’re working “tiny” this season, I’ve decided to work in a small tag book...
Ubuntu Hi Messians, this is Clare with a super versatile tutorial for the season of Ubuntu. What better way to share some joy with family and friends near and far than by...
Artist SpotlightKellee Wynne Conrad is the creator of Color Crush Creative, a thriving, internationally followed Instagram community of color loving artists and the online membership program, True Colors. It is through this program that she has been...
Ubuntu Hi everyone, it’s Sarah! Today were going to be exploring diptychs and how they are used to bring the connections between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Since the word...
Ubuntu Hello! Alicia here again to share a tutorial on using watercolor to brush letter quotes in our art journals. I have been playing with letters for over 4 years now and...
UbuntuPrompts Download the prompts for the season Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal to spark journal ideas.
Art and science combined are great passions of mine and so naturally I really enjoy Scientific Illustration.
So today I wanted to share with you the rules of scientific illustration and hopefully show you some ways that you can level up your drawing skills, and illustrate the seasons.
This tutorial introduces the use of a simple spinner element.
Seasons In this video, I explain three simple principles of color to liven up your creative palettes: color value, temperature and intensity. Use these tips to make your...
Four different collage techniques to represent the four seasons.
Artist SpotlightDebbie Bamberger is a nurse practitioner in California. She has been caring for women and providing sexual and reproductive health care for over 25 years, hence her obsession with all things vaginal. She lives with her husband and two...
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...
Sometimes a season can seem like a country with it’s own landscape and culture, quite distinct from other seasons. In this tutorial, we are going to choose one season to work with and create a map showing its unique terrain. We’ll add some simple symbols to represent each place and touches of colour to bring the map to life. This map can serve as a helpful guide when you find yourself deep within this realm, reminding you of the roads you can take and places you can visit to make your stay more enjoyable!
At Get Messy, you are not a number, but a vital part of our community. A South African word, Ubuntu means: I am because we are. This season delves deep into the humanity in all of us and how to illuminate and connect with it. Through tutorials about charcoal and gesso, alcohol ink, and brush lettering with watercolour and ink, you will explore social justice causes in your home and world and find ways that your art can elevate the good in all of humanity. Guest artist Kellee Wynne from Colour Crush Creative shows you how to create a mixed media concertina art journal and introduces you to colour theory.
Seasons In this video, I share three fun acrylic painting techniques to create painted patterns in your journal. We’ll walk through dry brush stripes, rose florals, and an ombre...
Using a lunar calendar, document your emotions throughout the season by following the phases and cycle of the moon.
How to use fresh leaves and flowers to create beautiful gelli prints for your journals.
Artist SpotlightJulie Marriott is a painter, pattern designer, wife and mom from San Diego, California. She’s passionate about creating bold and joyful artwork for the color-loving soul. In between creating her colorful paintings, Julie loves to...
We all have favorite seasonal activities and traditions. By using old calendar pages, and creating a mood board, we are celebrating these unique parts of the current and upcoming seasons.
This tutorial will guide you and inspire you to create repeat patterns in your art journal and on collage papers for your art journal.
Artist SpotlightMerel is a twenty-year-old creative self-taught journal artist. Although she’s still a graphic design student, she devotes all of her free time to art journaling and writing.Why do you love creating? I love creating because it’s my way...
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...
Seasons Prompts Download the prompts for the season Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal to spark journal ideas.
For me, art journaling is as much about the story and the meaning as it is about the actual art work. I want to show you a way to combine words and images without having to draw on your art work.
Story We caught up with guest artist Amy Tan and asked where she finds inspiration for her art and for her stories. This is what she shared with us: I draw a lot of inspiration...
Artist Julia Bethmann shows you use your gelli plate to get more out of your collage work.
Archetypes are used in stories to convey powerful meaning across culture and time. Explore the classic archetype of the Hero and the Hero’s Journey in our art journals using mixed media elements and a recurring Hero figure.
Moriah Costa talks about how to tell people you are an artist.
Use ephemera from your everyday life to create a story using Traveler’s Notebooks.
Artist SpotlightMelanie is a designer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. She has a multidiscipline artistic background having studied and worked in the design industry for over 15 years. In this time, she has worked on a broad range of...
Amanda gives you some tips for getting started with collage and creating a fun, uplifting journal spread.
Comic book panels are a great way to focus in on the small moments while, at the same time, building up a bigger picture of the story we want to tell. In this tutorial, we’re going to be telling our stories by combining a comic book page layout with a mixed media, art journaling style.
The Season of Seasons explores the passing of time and how we change and grow with the seasons. Prompts help you express your evolution through your life’s seasons, and tutorials show you how to map your relationship to the earth’s seasons. Learn how to document your emotions with a lunar calendar and create a spinner to move through the seasons of life. Create seasonal mood boards, collages for each of the seasons, and leaf and flower gelli prints for all seasons. Guest artist Julia Marriott shows you acrylic painting and colour techniques to make your art bloom.
Story Amy Tan is here today to teach us how to tell our most important story - the every day one. Watch her incredible tutorial and learn how she uses everyday life + art to tell...
Minimalist art journaling is art journaling that strips away the excess, takes away the non-essentials, and focuses on what’s important. The Minimalist Art Journal is all about finding your calm and putting your emotions on a page. Including 16 lessons and 7 guest artists, you will learn to not fear the blank page and embrace it. Get away from the clutter and overload of normal life and focus on what makes this moment, this hour, this day important. No overload of extras and stuff. Just you, a blank page, and the basics. Take time, do less, and create more art where you are with what you have.
In this lesson we will build a supply kits of tools that you LOVE. We will choose simply but impactful supplies that are strong enough to stand on their own without needing the hoards of gadgets that distract from your message and meaning. We will hand bind an elegant, yet understated journal to give you full control of your minimalist art journal
why it’s important to keep your tool kit small
how to build an art journal kit that you absolutely love
what my ultimate tool kit is
how to choose, and prepare paper for a handbound journal
how to bind the journal using threaded saddle stitch
The conversation between colours in an artwork can make it complex and busy. When you reduce your palette to shades of one colour, you reduce the noise, and make a much more minimalist piece. It can still be intricately detailed, and multi-layered, but doesn’t get as intense.
Collage presents a unique way of including a wide range of textures and shapes while sticking to shades of a single colour.
In this Artist Date with Cindy, we will glue and paint and then gesso and then glue and then paint some more. And then maybe some more.
ResourcesFriends of Get MessyOur recommended suppliers and arty friends.The Get Messy podcastOur favourite art journaling magazine.The Get Messy Journal is housed here. The other journals are pretty great too.Use our link for 2 free weeks (woo!)High quality photo...
Effervescent Ali chats about being kind to yourself, how to find inspiration in your own work, and vulnerability.
We’re obsessed with Pam’s handbound art journal collection. It’s a good thing she’s sharing them with us.
Alicia SchultzLayered MinimalismI fell in love with Alicia’s work as soon as I saw it. The pastels, the florals. It spoke directly to the inner depths of my heart. The thing that strikes me most about her work is how she manages to create so much depth, and still keep...
Amy talks creativity through bullet journaling, documenting, and telling your story in your journal.
This is a casual Live Masterclass in a hangout format. Follow along as Vanessa shows how to paint intuitively.
Merel DjamilaRecycled PaperArtist Merel Djamila has an exceptional eye for distinguishing elements that are unrelated but together tell a beautiful story. Scroll through her Instagram archives to see pages that interact with their environment, and let her show you how...
We’re talking creative reflection and intentions. Looking back at what you’ve made, and how to make great art goals.
The collage queen invites you to make a paper mess alongside her.
This annual Get Messy tradition has two exciting guests join in…
A pep talk by Tiffany on rejection, failure, and fighting imperfection.
Starting Download the prompts for the season Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal to spark journal ideas.
Cait SherwoodLacy PatternsI am still starstruck whenever Cait talks to me. I still feel like I am not worthy of talking to anyone who makes anything this beautiful. I’m still in disbelief that she said yes to contributing in this class. Cait is an artist who creates...
Bookbinding expert, Kiala, takes us step by step through binding a journal.
Create color swatches to cut apart to make simple collage palettes and patterns with Sarah.
Sarah RondonMultimedia CollageSo Sarah really needs to start being arrogant about her mad art skills. She once helped me figure out how to mix the colour for my exact skin tone in three sentences. And I am really dumb at colour mixing. Her art knowledge is deep, and...
Lauren and Vanessa are together in 3D in Korea and chat about their travel journal kits and what supplies they travel with.
Amy from Mindful Art Studio demonstrates using art for mindfulness in order to find beauty and relaxation.
Tina AszmusMonochromatic BackgroundI first became aware of Tina from my scrapbooking days, and I have loved seeing her art develop over the last few years. Her style is very clean, her art is quirky, and her colour palettes are made of my dreams. Tina also has a real...
Level Up > Level Three3.2 Your Brain's External Hard DriveLearning Outcomes: Keep an external hard drive for your brain Assemble your external brain Discover how to create project reference notes that encourage getting things done...
Sketchbook Skool chats with us about making art part of your life, and shows pages from their sketchbooks.
Katie LichtStacked ShapesKatie Licht is the undisputed Queen of Collage. I remember finding her art on Flickr way before social media was in full force, almost an actual decade ago. I would go through her photostream again and again. I was ecstatic when I found her on...
We have a hack for finding your style and it doesn’t involve selling a kidney, so that’s a bonus.
All many of us need to do to create art journal pages is sweep up our art spaces and put those tiny discarded papers to serious work. In this class, instructor Zinia Redo starts simple and progresses through intermediate to advanced techniques that will help you use tiny pieces of leftover papers (or purposefully selected beauties!) for intricate and beautiful backgrounds. All you need for this class is scissors, your scrap paper stash, and glue to get your fingers snipping, arranging, and glueing. You can use this class to create art journal backgrounds, base pages, scrapbook pages, collages, mosaics, summer crafts with the kids, frame-worthy art, and more. If you follow all of the class techniques, you will have 92 art journal base pages ready and waiting for when inspiration strikes.
Solid ideas for Brandi’s favourite way to create – with commonplace books.
Remember: Bring your messy self, take what you need (no such thing as being behind), and remember that more than zero is enough. Here's the prompt for today's Messy May: Create a journal spread that encourages you to share kindness with others and...
How to start art journaling > WelcomeWe love people who make art. And if you're here then we love you too. Yay! We're so excited you're here. Who are we? Caylee, Amy, and Vanessa....
You go, ✨ We’re proud of you. We are celebrating that you have said YES to art. After your dance party, or during it, press play and feel welcomed:Your turn for action. Just three things:Bookmark the Dashboard. You’ll find the...
How to start art journaling > Lesson 1 So what the frida Kahlo is Art Journaling? Ah, the big question: What is art journaling? It's whatever you want it to be! Wait, saying...
We'd love to welcome you in. Here are six signs that Get Messy is your artistic sanctuary: You're craving creativity You want to be more consistent You're done with perfectionism You want to create art for art's sake You want to...
DashboardSo glad you're here, . For new seasons, classes, and workshops, upgrade to the new site. The journal is oceanic. It is capacious. It is memory, reverie, distillation. It teaches me to pay attention, to examine, to...
How to start art journaling > Lesson 2 It's not about the tools, it's about how you use them This lesson has our favourite supplies list. Are you ready for them?Supplies whatever you...
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How to start art journaling > Lesson 3 The breakfast of art journaling (How to make your first art journal page)You may have already created art journal pages, and if you have, GO...
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How to start art journaling > Lesson 4 Translating inspiration into art (How to do the actionable inspiration thing)All over the internet we have sites that promise inspiration,...
How to start art journaling > Lesson 5 Prompts are real life art catalysts One of Get Messy's three main pillars is prompts. Oh man, how we love prompts. We believe they are the key...
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How to start art journaling > Lesson 6 Art friends are not like regular friends Have you ever been in your art studio (fancy loft warehouse, kitchen table, or living room floor) and...
Tiffany shows you a different way to create a self portrait using a headshot photo of yourself.
This is where it’s safe (and you’re encouraged!) to ditch your to-do list. Ignore the laundry. Shake off perfectionism. And create for the sake of creating. Everything we do is rooted in kindness and being a good human. The community is a place to feel inspired,...
Ditch your to-do list. Ignore the laundry. Shake off perfectionism. And create for the sake of creating.We're an art journaling community created for every type and shape of artist. We’re here for you if you've ever wanted to unleash your creative spirit and...
Sasha Zeen shows you how to paint loose watercolor flowers.
Let’s explore ways to use vintage photos and papers in your art journal. Make a found word sentence or two to enhance you story, be it autobiographical or fictional.
Artist SpotlightAmy is the Founder of Amy Tangerine, a creative lifestyle company that creates online content as well as fun, tangible products like tee shirts and craft supplies. Amy wrote the book, Craft a Life You Love, has taught workshops all...
Helpful tips for beginning gelli plate users to feel comfortable.
Create your own abstract images by zooming in and cropping your photos interesting ways and then use these photos to share the details of your stories.
Misty chats with Divyam about the creative process.
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