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Get Messy is an online art journaling school that teaches you to cultivate your creativity. Without perfection.
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52 journal cover and first page ideas
The main thing that stopped me from keeping a journal in the past was fear of the blank page. Specifically, fear of the very first blank page. My initial way of dealing that fear was to simply keep the first page blank, turn the page, and make the art. It’s not a bad...
Jana Clinard Harris finds community invaluable to her survival as a creative person
Interview with Jana Clinard Harris about art journaling, creative practices, advice, and what to do in a creative rut. Take a peek into the art, and heart of your new favourite artist…
How to organise ephemera for MORE creating and less hoarding
Ephemera is my number one supply ever, and if I only had one supply I could take on an island, it'd be paper. I am an exceptionally organised human, but I am also a creative and ephemera organisation lends itself to somewhere in the middle of those two things. The...
Eva Donges puts herself on the page.
Interview with art journal artist, Eva Donges.
How to embrace a new season in your art
Every month at Get Messy, we start a new season. Get Messy Seasons are a focused exploration of creating according to a theme. Filled with tutorials, prompts, and catalysts for you to learn and love. In the same way that we go through seasons of our life, we also go...
Brooke Gorrell-Beaudoin makes the heaviness of the real world feel a little bit lighter through art journaling
Interview with art journal artist, Brooke Gorrell-Beaudoin.
e bond finds a safe space where anything is allowed in her sketchbook
Interview with e bond about art journaling, creative practices, advice, and what to do in a creative rut. Take a peek into the art, and heart of your new favourite artist…
Art journaling is a Alyssa Griese’s non-judgemental playground
Interview with Alyssa Griese about art journaling, creative practices, advice, and what to do in a creative rut. Take a peek into the art, and heart of your new favourite artist…
Wendy McGowen creates daily
Interview with art journal artist, Wendy McGowen.
Karen Price finds freedom to play in her art journal
Interview with art journal artist, Karen Price.
Roben-Marie Smith brings beauty into the world through art journaling
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? As far back as I can remember, I have been a creative person. Art journaling is a part of who I am, and like I was as a child, I still find comfort and personal satisfaction in creating. Journaling is my...
Melanie Theriault escapes and processes her reality through art journaling
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? Art journaling is a healing liminal space that allows me to both escape my reality as well as process it. It is my self care at its best. Art journaling feels like home, it feels like personal growth, it...
