Play Download the List Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal to spark journal ideas. Hello artists, Alicia here to kick off the Season of...
Roll the art dice: a creative art journaling game
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2.3 Riet Poch – Depth in Backgrounds
In a minimalistic page you can’t have a busy background, a lot of writing and a lot of other elements. That doesn’t mean that you aren’t allowed to use more than one color or element, but before you start decide what your focus will be. The focus in this lesson will be on the background. With simple techniques we’ll create detailed bases for our message.
How to paint an acrylic greenhouse
Connections We're in awe of Julie and her magical art. Obviously her hand-painted floral necklaces speak directly to Caylee's soul. As does her new podcast about her studio...
How to create and use your own stencils
Fairy Tales Hello there, charmers! Sasha here in this magical Season of Fairy Tales to share a few tricks on creating your own stencils. Let's start! I have never had access...
A guide to creating your ideal colour palette
Colour It's Elizabeth here with a stack of magazines, a bin full of paint, and a silent prayer that my youngest babe continues to nap while I walk you through creating your ideal...
A guide to mixing your own colours
Colour Hi, lovely Messians! Sasha here today! It's our favorite time again, isn't it? The start of a new Get Messy season always feels magical and special. This is the time, when...
A comprehensive guide to acrylics
Art 101 There are a variety of styles, brands, and price points for acrylic paints. If you've never ventured into this medium before, welcome! If your experience has...
Paper Aging & Distressing Techniques
Hello lovely Get Messians! It's Zinia here to share with you some fun techniques to create aged and distressed look on your pages. When I think about music, one of the first thing that...
How to mix ink with acrylic
Hello magical Messians! It’s Jules here to share with you a tutorial on mixing two of my favourite mediums: ink and acrylic. This is a technique that I use a lot but have never really...
Abstract art journaling with acrylic paint and ephemera
Abstract painting is so much fun, and SO easy to do. You can level it up by adding ephemera.Action Steps Create in your journal. Bring your imperfect, messy self, take what you need,...
Faux Screen Printing
Hello Get Messy! Vanessa Perry here, and today I’m sharing with you a simple tip that is one of my favorites and has even inspired me to create an entire journal out of it. Art...
Movable Idea Catchers by Kiala Givehand
IdeasYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Create an interactive way to explore and discover the ideas that live inside you. Part 1Bonus Save this file to your computer, print it out, and...
Silhouette Reflections
Reflection The end of the year is a good time to reflect on the past year and our hopes and dreams for the upcoming year. This tutorial will show you how to combine written...
Use it Up Journal
What do you do with your leftover paints? Or dirty stencils? Anouk uses them in my use it up journal, where she makes beautiful backgrounds of them which are ready for some quick and easy journaling sessions.
Lesson 5 – Acrylic Galaxy
We’ve already made it to lesson 5 and in this lesson I am going to show you how I paint a galaxy using acrylic paint! This is a totally different medium than watercolors, and while watercolors are my personal favorite (I love how the flow and blend!), acrylics paint can make some really cool galaxies and they are often more vibrant and richer colors than watercolor paints
Art Joy Postcards – Share and Care With a Card
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...
Make Your Own Collage Papers using a Gelli Plate
Helpful tips for beginning gelli plate users to feel comfortable.
Telling unconventional stories through abstract art
In this post, we will be thinking about unconventional stories and making abstract art to represent a different way of thinking about the unconventional stories that are important to us.
2.2 Abstract Acrylic
a super easy way to paint abstractly with paint
how to keep abstract painting minimalist
Using colour with more confidence
Colour Hi Messians,Jules here to help build up your colour confidence!If you are familiar with my work, you will know I am a huge colour obsessive. I always want to use more! I...
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...
Abstract painting Tutorial
Here's a tutorial showing my process from start to finish for an abstract acrylic paint page. I like keeping whitespace, but it looks gorgeous if you cover the whole thing too....
Layers of Reflection
Reflection Reflection happens often for me, I define it as giving serious thought to something. That something usually involves a good measure of self-reflection too. For...
How to start: Taking ideas and lessons from other artists to put them in your journal
Starting Kelly Henson Kelly is a veritable mash up of mother, teacher, skater and newbie art journaler. In previous creative incarnations she has been a digital scrapbooker...
Release Your Inner Child: Finger Painting
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Making paint brushes from found objects
Fairy Tales ‘Proper’ paint brushes are amazing of course, but sometimes it’s nice to go a little off-piste and put some of nature’s tools to use – especially at this time of...
04 – Visual Gratitude Pages
While I love writing in my journal, there are also times where I just want to get my paints out and play. This lesson focuses on just that. We will still be documenting things we are...
03 – Creating Tags, Pockets & Tuck Spots
In this lesson, we will cover different ways to decorate tags that you can add to your journals. They are a quick way to get creative and make a lovely addition to your journal pages....
01 – Making a Gratitude Journal
In this lesson, we will start off by creating a beautiful cover for out gratitude journal. We will then select a wide variety of papers and bind them together using a really simple...
Gather, Spark, Create by Felicitas Mayer
IdeasYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Use your old paper scraps and other crafty left-overs to find new creative ideas for art journaling. Action Steps create something based on this...
Week 1 – Tea bags + paint + found words
CourageThis season we are collaborating with a partner, or being our own cheerleader. Download the Season Sidekick for a list of prompts to work from. Char and Claudette are choosing three items...
Finishing with the Unfinished
Finishing#gmseasonoffinishingLet's finish our journal spreads with unfinished things. I know I have a lot of sketchbooks and journals of pages I didn't finish, forgot about, or didn't like. Can...
The Scaredy Cat’s Guide to Color
Download Save this mini workbook to your computer, print it out, and let it accompany you on your artistic journey this season. Your guide Caylee Grey Hyperbolic journaler and imperfect artist, Caylee Grey is also a wife and mother from South Africa. Caylee is the...
05 – Hand-Lettering Headings & Quotes
In this lesson, I will be talking you through some of my favourite tips for hand-lettering and faux calligraphy, along with providing you with a brush-lettering workbook. We will then...
07 – It’s a Matter of Perspective
The integrating self grows in confidence and is open to other perspectives. As the new integrated self builds its new habits, it makes choices based on its core values. It acknowledges...
06 – The Integration
The self is ready to bear the discomfort that might come from realigning with its own truth and re-integrating with its core self - its inner child. The self has finally committed to...
05 – The Leap of Faith
Despite its fears and doubts, the self takes the leap of faith! Doubt and uncertainty feel overwhelming to the self. It weighs the pros and cons over and over again. Fear paralyzes any...
04 – The Tower Moment
The self feels torn between its obligations and disappearing dreams, desires and worth. The self feels obligated to abandon itself in order to meet the societal expectations. It doubts...
03 – The Fragmentation
The society’s need for conformity widens the gap between the inner child and the growing self. The growing self continues to internalize the beliefs and paradigms that it learns every...
02 – The Journey
The inner child’s life journey begins to tear it away from its own truths. As the inner child begins its life’s journey, it leaves its core and is programmed to adapt to the requirements...
Sarah – Art Journal Zines
Make a Zine inspired by pages in your art journal and create a tip-in pocket to store it. Do you have a spread (or more!) in your art journal that you just love? Why not create a zine inspired...
Rory – Origami Zines
Fold and crease your single page zine in new ways, and use the literal unfolding as a visual journey through your own history or personal layers. When I started making zines in the 1990s, riot...
Texture
Texture is used to describe the surface quality of the work, referencing the types of lines the artist created. The surface quality can either be tactile (real) or strictly visual (implied). Tactile surface quality is mainly seen through three-dimensional works, like...
Color
Color is an element consisting of hues, of which there are three properties: hue, chroma or intensity, and value. Color is present when light strikes an object and it is reflected back into the eye, a reaction to a hue arising in the optic nerve. The...
Artist Affirmations
I love to incorporate artist affirmations into my art journal practice. Let’s create a beautiful and meaningful art journal spread to silence our inner critics.
Wild Abandon
Moments#gmseasonofmomentsYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Create with wild abandon. Let go of perfection and expectations and gather things that you love. Art...
Online Inspiration to Art
We always hear about using Pinterest for inspiration. Let’s make a pin board of things we love and use it to inspire endless journal pages!
Rooted
New#gmseasonofnewYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Go back to your roots.I went back to my roots by going back to old journals. Here are some more ideas: copy one of...
Mindfulness Through Art
Mindfulness#gmseasonofmindfulnessMindfulness. Turning towards ourselves and listening. Being patient and curious and open. Imagine how much our...
How to Create a Scraps Diary
In this video, Autumn Moon shares what exactly a Scraps Diary is about. She pages through her Diary and shares the spirit behind it, the guidelines, the essence, and what it means to her. Video Transcript Please note that this transcript has been automagically...
01 – The Inner Child
It is time to give the silenced inner child a voice to speak with us again. In my understanding, the inner child is the feeling, intuitive and sensitive part of each one of us - the part...
4.1 Symbols of You
Welcome to Symbols Of You. Together we will be exploring how the use of colors, words, and symbolism can be used to illustrate the positive energy we would like to celebrate and bring more...
1.3 Background
Now that we have our paper dolls ready, let's add color to our spread. We’re going to create a watercolor background with hues that best represents ourselves. Remember to skip the first 3...
1.2 Paper Doll of Self
First things first, we’re going to create a paper doll that represents our wonderful selves. This doll is going to be the focal point of your spread, so don’t be shy. Give her the spotlight...
Carolyn – 60 Minute Zines
Make a zine from start to finish in less than 60 minutes! You’ll go through 6 steps using a variety of art supplies and techniques that you can make your own. Add words, quotes or phrases to...
03 – Drawing with Scissors
Firstly, we will prepare our sketchbook page with a nice dark background with either ink or paint and let it dry. We'll then look at our photographs for inspiration to create nature-themed...
Three, Two, One
Explore ways to create pages with a simple formula of 3 colors, 2 words, and 1 image. This formula opens us up to endless possibilities to create unique layouts.
Movement as a Distraction
We constantly are moving, doing, and staying busy in our daily lives. How can we carve away slivers of time for peace and creating? In this journal we will connect to a moment of calm in the midst of the chaos playing on contrast and complimentary colors to highlight this dichotomy in our lives.
Color Interactions
Explore how colors interact with each other. Experimenting with color in your journal helps you find brush strokes and color combinations you may never have thought to try before! Make rainbows, mix colors, and see which new colors you can make from the tubes of paint you already have!
Envelope Pocket Journal
Finishing#gmseasonoffinishingLet's set ourselves up to finish strong this year. I'll be showing you how to create and easy envelop pocket journal that can be accommodated into your workflow....
How to blend acrylics on the page
Hello everyone, Im Tanyalee, teacher of the newest Get Messy ecourse Messy Pages. Thank you for joining me for this guest post for the Get Messy Season of Contrast. It is so great to be back on the Get Messy blog. I am going to share with you a little snippet of my...
3.2 Highest Self
Growth is a marker of life. As we grow, we learn. As we learn, we simplify and purify. This is a transformative alchemical process where our creativity, spirituality and self-awareness...
3.1 Our Transformation
In the next three lessons, we will create a series of windows leading to an ‘altar’ to the divinity present within each one of us. Our altars will be the seat of our highest self - that is...
Transformation
Moments #gmseasonofmoments Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: Create an art journal page using the word Transformation as the theme. Bonus points: Limit your palette...
Self Love through Collage
Worthiness#gmseasonofworthiness This lesson was originally released in the Season of Kindness. It holds so much value for the Season of Worthiness that - for the first time...
Time Capsule
Spark#gmseasonofsparkLet’s go back in time! This gave me a great excuse to look through my old art journals and reference photos and match them up. I’ve realized that sometimes I...
3.3 You at Your Greatest
In this lesson, we'll wrap up this journey to the divine within. Action StepsWrap up this stage of your journey to the divine within
Painting a ‘scene’ in your art journal
Spark#gmseasonofsparkOk so let’s get started! The goal is to create a ‘scene’ or a full painting spanning 2 pages or a spread in your art journal. Use whatever paint you like best....
Freedom of Limitations
Create four journal pages, one for each of the following themes: Inspired by a Mess, Out for a Walk, Something Messy Something Clean, and View From my Window. The trick is to make your pages FAST and INTUITIVE! So impose the following time limits: One page should take 5 minutes, one should take 10 minutes, one should take 20 minutes, and one should take 40.