HeartYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Explore how to make moveable collages in your art journal. Action Steps Bring your imperfect, messy self, take what you need, and know that more...
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Lovingly Stitched by Alyssa Griese
HeartYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Stitch a love note or kind word to yourself or to someone you love. Action Steps Bring your imperfect, messy self, take what you need, and know...
Gel Plate Printed Vintage Books
Use gel plate printed papers to collage in AND let’s also use a gel plate to print directly in an altered book.
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...
Steph – Affirmation Zines
We will create and cut out flowers, letter affirmations, and decorate our zine using what you have on hand. There are step by step directions on how to draw flowing flowers, cut them out, and...
Caylee – Reverse Zines
A reverse zine is a zine that starts as a sheet and becomes a mini journal, rather than the other way around. It uses the magical power of cropping to make your art look absolutely gorgeous no...
How to make a zine
Here's a 60 second reference for making your own one-page zine. DownloadDownload the worksheets for this lesson.Want the steps one-by-one without having to pause? Here you go: Start with a...
The Pieces
We live such varied lives, holding so many roles, loving so many different things, and with all of that comes a lot of bits and pieces, many of which we easily overlook when it comes time to...
01 – Making the Journal
In this lesson I will take you through the process of making a simple and scrappy journal using mixed media paper and painted fabric strips as the signatures. The cover is made from...
Ways to Document Your Days
This lesson focuses on ways to document your days, whether in monthly, daily, weekly, or quarterly formats.
Value
Value refers to the degree of perceivable lightness of tones within an image. The element of value is compatible with the term luminosity, and can be "measured in various units designating electromagnetic radiation". The difference in values is often called contrast,...
How to make a zine
A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favorite bands, personal stories, subcultures, or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews, and stories. They can be by one person or many, found in stores, traded at comic conventions, exchanged with friends, or given away for free.
Incorporating your favourite elements into an art journal spread
Focus#gmseasonoffocusIn this video, I’ll take you step by step through my process of creating a spread which combines all the elements of my work. I will show you how I merge...
An intuitive approach to building a layered spread
Focus#gmseasonoffocusIn this video I’ll be sharing a layered spread from start to finish in my handmade journal. These spreads used to intimidate me, but not any more. I overcame...
Debbie – Instructional Zines
This is a lesson about how to make a one-page zine teaching others how to do something you’re good at.Supplies 1 sheet of printer paper scissors pencil and eraser black pen colored pencils Go...
Welcome to Puzzling
Life is full, and beautifully fractured. This course will invite us to gather and sort all the varied bits and pieces life brings our way, and create a journal that gives them a place to play...
Warm Up – Creating beautiful organic shapes with water and ink
Learn how to make striking organic shapes with a simple, fun art technique that uses water and ink.Supplies loose paper (thicker paper works best) a container of water a brush a bottle of...
Expanded Spine Art Journal
The incredible Diana was so inspired by Claudette's journal in the Courageous Adventures in Art Journaling class that she played around, figured things out by pausing a video, and made a similar journal. And then another and another. And then we're...
The Library – Find Your Creative Catalyst
At Get Messy, be kind to yourself. Cheer others on. Create with abandon. Dance naked in perfectionism’s face. Get Messy is the catalyst, but ultimately, your Messy experience is what you make of it.
In this lesson, we’ll chat about the different areas of the best art journaling resource on the internet.
Choose Your Companion
Free Lesson - Choose Your CompanionThe Inner Heroine class is all about documenting a journey that we have undertaken and that has allowed us to grow. In telling our story through the lens of a heroine embarking on a grand adventure, we can be free of self-censorship...
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....
Bonus – Tag It – Char
Tags are so versatile and fun. I must admit, I never understood the hoopla around tags before I started art journaling. My rationale at the time was because I was primarily...
Bonus – Tag It – Claudette
Tags are such a fun way to add some extra personality to our journals. While making our tags we play with stitching, threads, and fabric scraps. We use quotes, images, and...
06 – Wreck It – Char
The minute I shouted, “Wreck It!” during our brainstorm meeting, followed by Claudette replying with an emphatic, “YES, that’s it!” I knew I was in trouble. Seriously, how could I...
06 – Wreck It – Claudette
During this Wreck It part of our course we are going to be dunking our journals in coffee, closing our eyes so that we can randomly spray spraypaint throughout our journals, and...
05 – Color It – Char
The title “Color It” immediately makes me think of working with lots of juicy colors for a journal spread. Imagine my surprise when I ended up working with a limited color palette!...
05 – Color It – Claudette
In lesson 5 we are going to be making our own handmade stencils, as well as painted tapes and stickers that we can use to add pops of color and interest within our journal spreads....
04 – Explore It – Char
I thought this was a great time to explore and get reaquanted with soft pastels, because while I love them, I hardly work with them and they’re gathering dust. I remembered finding...
04 – Explore It – Claudette
In this lesson, we explore our journals again and have a look at the flow of our journals so far. We harness the energy of being courageous and adventurous as we make some bold...
03 – Grunge It – Char
I would argue that, “Grunge is in the eye of the beholder.” Of course, there are distinct and absolute concepts when it comes to grunge, but for me - and as in everything mixed...
03 – Grunge It – Claudette
One dictionary defines grunge as deliberately untidy and uncoordinated. I couldn’t have said it better. I love the wild freedom that grunge allows us to explore within our journal...
02 – Ink It – Char
I love inks and use them often when making collage fodder and using them in my background pages. They’re also great for adding that extra spark of color to your work. This time, I...
02 – Ink It – Claudette
Inks are such a fun supply to incorporate into our art journaling practice. In this lesson, we take a closer look at the difference between inks that dry to be permanent and those...
01 – Expose It – Char
When Claudette and I decided on “Expose It” as one of our lessons, I immediately knew that I wanted to share one of my favorite techniques: using negative space. It’s the literal...
01 – Expose It – Claudette
To start off this courageous adventure step of starting a new journal we are exposing its bones, examining all of its hidden parts, and exploring unexpected areas of inspiration....