Get Messy
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Get Messy is an online art journaling school that teaches you to cultivate your creativity. Without perfection.
How Sera Bourne worked through her grief by making carefree art
Artist SpotlightSera Bourne is an art journaler living in Alaska. She loves to get messy with her art supplies and make people laugh. Her ultimate goal is to rule the world and have ALL the dogs!Sera answered her questions through video! Hi my...
How Holly Janssen Uses Art Journaling to Find Her Voice
Artist SpotlightMom, wife, and middle school teacher, Holly Janssen recently rediscovered her love of creating mixed media art. Art journaling has brought her hours of joy, meditation, and friendship. Get Messy is the best community of unconditional...
Practicing Art Emboldens Talia Carbis to Create Without Pressure
Artist SpotlightTalia is an artist from Brisbane, Australia. She is a wife and mum to 3 kids, just trying to fit creativity into her life wherever it fits! Talia explores topics like Judaism, and mental health through her art and enjoys making YouTube...
Being an Artist Inspires Phill Rushmere to Approach Life Creatively
Artist SpotlightPhill is the 30 (something) year old INFJ from Norwich on the East Coast of England. By day a Compliance & Quality Manager and maker extraordinaire by night. A lover of bookbinding, hand lettering and of course art journaling. His...
Charlotte Erichsen Expresses Playful & Political Sides Through Art Journaling
Artist SpotlightLotte lives in Munich and loves to draw and paint the city, landscapes and animals. Her approach to art journaling is playful and sometimes political. When she is not creating, she likes to read books or newspaper or learn more hula...
Jenna Ledford Uses Art to Drown Out the Self-Doubt
Artist SpotlightAKA Ginnis Tonik on certain parts of the Internet Educator. Feminist. Creator. Activist. Writer. New Mama to William, not so new mama to four furbabiesHow do you live a creative life? By being a part of Get Messy, duh! I regularly...
How Sofia Lachkar Explores Herself and Her World Through Creative Process
Artist SpotlightSofia is a writer, art journaler, feminist activist and entrepreneur. She strives to live a meaningful life, by putting art at the center of her life and sharing her passion with other people. She loves to challenge herself...
How Kristin Tweedale Finds Creative Inspiration Through Community
Artist SpotlightKristin is a feminist scrapbooker, writer, and podcaster living in East Lansing, Michigan. Originally from the NYC suburbs, you’ll often find her perfecting her pizza recipe, or checking on the heirloom tomatoes in the garden. You can...
Alyssa Rothwell Keeps Creativity Alive by Making a Little Art Each Day
Artist SpotlightLiving in Canada, with a BA in visual arts, Alyssa is a maker and lover of all things handmade. For Alyssa, embracing imperfections and chasing after “happy accidents” is the true magic of art journaling. Anything goes within the pages...
How Jenny Sehlstedt Grows as an Artist by Leaning on the Community
Artist SpotlightJenny lives on the West Coast of Sweden with her husband. When she isn’t spending time in her very messy studio or at work, she sings in a church choir and loves reading speculative fiction, such as, but not limited to, Sci-Fi and...
Michelle Johnson Views Her Art as Extensions of Herself
Artist SpotlightLoud laugher, lover of cheese, coffee and bubbly water drinker. Momma to two assy doggos and one assy Guinea pig. Happily married to a dreamy, rad dude for 20+ years. She dislikes beets, lime Jell-o, and puzzles.How do you live a...
How Emma Szostok leans on community for inspiration when she is stuck
Artist SpotlightEmma is a person who puts her heart and soul into the artwork she creates. She like to create using bold colours and feeling the paint with her hands instead of a brush. ‘Her heart is as Black as night but her Soul is as colourful as a...