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Get Messy is an online art journaling school that teaches you to cultivate your creativity. Without perfection.
Ep 002: Pretty is nice but true is better
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...
Ep 001: Just do something
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...
How Amy Schubert and Kam Altar Use Art as a Release from Their Type-A Tendencies
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? Amy: I tend to follow a pretty structured, controlled, basic pattern in the rest of my life. I’m very type-A oldest child. I love that art journaling is not that. It’s my excuse to go. To not worry about...
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...
How Art Serves as a Form of Worship and Prayer for Cheryl Angelini
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? It's my way to be creative. I love trying different techniques and mediums. It's even helped me with my anxiety. Describe your art journaling process? I start with a picture that inspires me. Sometimes...
How Art Journaling Frees Karen Gaunt to Just Create
Artist SpotlightKaren is an Artist. She arts like a boss and believes that you should too. Karen loves Poppies, triangles, colour and hand lettering. She’s all about the process and loves to complete pages that take days to make and ones that take...
How Torrie Gass’ belief that all humans are creative leads her to practice art every day
Artist SpotlightTorrie’s deep belief is that every human on this planet is creative in their soul. We were made to design, create, paint, play, imagine and share our inner artist with the world. It’s just a matter of letting ourselves tap into that...
How simply creating art makes Sharon Nullmeyer an artist
Artist SpotlightSharon is a painter, pattern maker, flower picker, and collager! She loves things from time gone by, books, peonies, neons, poster colors, and hot sauce.Why do you love art journaling? I really do love art journaling. I stumbled into...
How embracing the mess of art journaling makes Lauren Caterson feel grounded
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? I love it because it feels good to have something that’s just about the process - the results really don’t matter at all. It’s very grounding for me. Since joining Get Messy I’ve been using my art...
Jodie York feels free from rules and expectations in her art journey
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? I love art journaling for the creative freedom. Full stop. This is where I try out new techniques and products. This is where I relax creatively with no plans, no expectations, and no rules. Describe...
How Katie Jones avoids overthinking by making art
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? It's just fun! I've always admired great scrapbook pages but felt a little restricted by the style, Art Journaling means freedom to create and just throw anything down on a page and make it art. Describe...
How art frees Anke Kramer and brings more fun to her life
Artist SpotlightI love beautiful things and like to be creative. In addition to painting and stamping, I also discovered photography and scraping for myself. I want to give all these things a space here and share them with others.Why do you love art...