Art Journal Catalysts
Inspiration
Why Creating Every Day Makes Suzanne Earley Feel Like Herself
How Julia Bethmann disregards the idea that all art must fit a certain aesthetic
The Get Messy Community enriches Rose Sheridan’s life through more than art
Anouk Karssen uses art journaling to process her emotions
Melanie Miles feels fulfilled by enjoying the creative process
Artist SpotlightMelanie is a designer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. She has a multidiscipline artistic background having studied and worked in the design industry for over 15 years. In this time, she has worked on a broad range of...
How Pietro Cataudella uses creative process to appreciate simple beauty
Artist SpotlightPietro’s project, @CityLiveSketch, was born in 2014 when he decided to create different and creative contents to share with his friends and followers. He combined his passions for drawing and photography, creating “postcards 2.0” of...
Ronni Nicole gives herself the freedom to evolve through art
Artist SpotlightRonni creates what she loves to call “Floral Inspired Fossils”. For as long as she can remember, she’s always had a connection with flowers. She’s consumed by all the little details within their design. Even from a young child she can...
Inspiration for Conquering The Blank Page
Kindness Hello Get Messy Family! If you are anything like me, sometimes you just can’t think of what to do in your art journal. It’s one of the reasons I created my Mixed Media...
How Rebecca Johnstone Finds Perspective Through Art Journaling
Artist SpotlightRebecca Johnstone, aka Dainty Dora, is a Surface Pattern Designer and illustrator with a First Class honours degree in Textiles & Fashion Design Management specialising in Print, from Heriot-Watt University in Galashiels (formerly...
Nature Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofnature"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way...
Connections Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofconnections"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our...
How art journaling helped Melody Willoughby through life changing events
Artist SpotlightMelody is a fifty something wife, mother and grandmother. She is from Arkansas and loves those razorbacks!! She has a wonderful family including a very loving husband.WHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE STORY? My story really began in 1996. My...
Fairy Tales Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonoffairytales"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our...
Colour Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofcolour"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way...
Jaimee Ulmer uses art journaling to release the pressure
Artist SpotlightWHY DO YOU LOVE ART JOURNALING? I love art journaling for the opportunity of processing, working through, and celebrating my life journey in a tangible, creative way. “Art it Out” definitely works for me! I also appreciate the...
Contrast Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofcontrast"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old...
5 Tips for creative collaborative projects
Art 101 Hello Messians, I wanted to write a post today about organizing collaborative projects. This is something highly encouraged within the Get Messy community and I love...
Art 101 Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofart101"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way of sharing...
Messy Spaces
The love of art supplies and art spaces seems to come with the territory of art journaling. I started my art journaling journey with one art journal,a couple of pens and my children's...
How Kate Meduna finds inspiration in her everyday surroundings
Artist SpotlightKate is from Moscow and loves crafty things.Why do you love art journaling? I love the creative process of making something. It’s the time I dedicate only to myself. I can do whatever I want and I won’t be judged. Most of all it is...
How art journaling was the missing puzzle piece that completes Sarah Maddox
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling and how has it impacted your life? Art journaling has completed me. For me it is the missing piece of the jigsaw. I have been creative all my life but have never before found the perfect creative outlet....
Being Brave in Art Journaling
Hey Get Messians, Julia here. I had an idea for a prompt during the get messy blog hop. It was as I was reading all the lovely and amazing comments left for me on my blog and I noticed...
Be prompted by Tanyalee
X#gmseasonofXWhy do you art journal? I have always been a creative person, from as long as I can remember, and I discovered art journaling right back in the early...
Be ignited by Jenna
Educator. Feminist. Creator. Activist. Writer. New Mama to William, not so new mama to four furbabies.
Meet Johanna
Johanna is a young mother of 3; inspired by documenting their lives and memories she makes her own journals and is avid about using them to celebrate the every-day moments.
Hangout with Mou
Belonging#gmseasonofbelongingThis is a replay of the Get Messy Season of Belonging hangout with Mou Saha. This is a casual hangout with all of us creating while Mou shared her...
Inspir-action from Mou
Belonging#gmseasonofbelongingPage through Mou's journals and fill your inspiration well. Transcript (this transcript is automatically generated and is sure to contain errors....
Staggered junk journals
Home Page through the pages of Char's Season of Home journal, and hear its story. In the video, Char also shares a few other ideas for journals she's made in the past, thoughts on...
Season of Habit Reflection
HabitOh, Messians, did this Season ever enable us to push our art further or what? There was so much to learn and so much to bring into our daily life that writing this is an...
Utilizing Hangouts and the Community in Building a Creative Habit
Habit During this hangout, Jess led us through sharing ideas on creating habits with art journaling through the use and support of the incredible Get Messy community....
Season of Documenting Intentions
Documenting For the season intentions, I'd love you to trust me. We're going to do things a bit differently. Dig Deeper Let's start this season in the deep end. Let's jump...
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...
Meet Mou Saha
Belonging#gmseasonofbelongingMou Saha Mou Saha is a mixed media artist, educator, coloring book author and an avid art journaler. Mou’s goal is to empower women to connect with...
Lesson 6: Push Your Muse
Inspiration How To Push Your Muse FurtherFor our final lesson we are looking at the idea of chasing our muse as far as it can go. By now you have created many...
Inspo to Art Hangout Replay
Creativity Thanks so much to everyone who joined us live! We had a lot of fun creating a page based on images we love using this season's inspiration translating technique....
An Introduction to Using Media to Create Art
Creativity This month your challenge is to use media that ignites your creativity to create a themed art journal. Why media? Watch the introduction video where Lauren will...
Using Media In Your Art Journal In Action
Creativity Take a peek inside my art journals and see how I’ve created pages based on movies, books, podcasts and tv shows. If you’ve ever created any pages based on media in...
Media Art Journal Walkthrough
Creativity What a fun season this is. I am personally obsessed with reading, listening to podcasts, music and watching movies. It is one of my favorite personal hobbies and I...
Welcome
Totems is the course that will walk you through finding your personal symbols and translating them into your art journal pages.
Closing Thoughts
To wrap up this course, I’m going to give you a little tour of some of my past art journals to show you a few examples of how I’ve used my girl sketches in my page spreads.
Lesson 1 – Supplies
Let’s start by going over the supplies I will be using in these lessons! I will tell you what brands I use and prefer, but feel free to use whatever supplies you have on hand!
Lesson 1 – The Best Interstellar Supplies
To start off this first lesson, we are going to gather our supplies so we are ready for a stellar time creating beautiful galaxies in your art journals.
Closing Thoughts
Thank you so much for taking this class with me! I hope I have been able to spread a bit of the galaxy love and you have learned how to create your own starry scenes!
Where to find your inspiration for art and stories
Story We caught up with guest artist Amy Tan and asked where she finds inspiration for her art and for her stories. This is what she shared with us: I draw a lot of inspiration...
05 • IDEAS + TAKEAWAYS
The Minimalist Art Journal > Bonus05 • Ideas + TakeawaysHere’s a bonus “lesson” with a bunch of past minimalist pages – quick examples, ideas, and takeaways. Takeaway: use an image to get the...
Finding Words
Hello lovely Messians, Judith here with your weekly dose of Friday Inspiration! For my first ever post here (woohoo!) I want to talk a little bit about finding the words to...
Finding Inspiration in the Everyday
Hi, friends. Elizabeth here. I used to compartmentalize my “creative time,” keeping it separate from family and work life. On one hand, it keeps the mess away from the chores. But on the...
Ugly Pages
I'm here to address a very debilitating and touchy issue: UGLY PAGES. As I run/monitor/participate in our social media channels here for Get Messy (and just interacting with any...
Art Collective
Lists Hello! My name is Anika Lacerte of The Handcrafted Story. I'm excited to share my first post as Creative Team member. I created a template called the Art Collective, which is...
Why I Share My Art Journal Pages and Why You Should Too
I will get right to the crux of the matter: not everyone will like your art journal page. Heck, most of the time you won't like it either, and some of the time almost no one will....
Getting Messy with little ones
We were so excited when Jen reached out to us and wanted to share her experience in getting her little one involved in her art journal. So we asked her to share some tips and different...
Be encouraged by Debbie
X #gmseasonofX Why do you art journal? I art journal because it makes me feel good. It gives me a place to process feelings, make something aesthetically...
Be excited by Alyssa
X#gmseasonofXHow do you live a creative life? I think I try to weave a little bit of creativity into almost all aspects of my life. I am definitely a collector of...
Be heartened by Gilly
X#gmseasonofXHow do you live a creative life? I didn’t enjoy school at all unless I was either cooking or doing needlework and left as soon as I could after my...
Meet Lauren
More#gmseasonofmoreMeet Lauren, adventurer, crafter, and storyteller.Hi Get Messy! Lauren here! Im so thrilled to be back with you! What a crazy year it’s been since we last created...
Journal with Char
Home Spend some time with Char in her journal, and then fill up your inspiration well as you page through previous pages. Action Steps Make a journal page alongside Char!Make use of...
What is home?
Home What does HOME mean to you? Char shares what it means to her, and prepares her supplies for creating.What is home?TRANSCRIPT (this transcript is automatically generated and is...
Meet Char DeRouin
Home Char DeRouin Char is an artist, designer and maker whose work is abstract, intuitive and organic in style, with a no-rules approach. She is influenced by experiences and...
Meet Barbara and her Painting Sketchbook
Less#gmseasonoflessMeet Barbara J Graham and take a look inside her painting sketchbook. Have you ever wanted to say more with less? How does colour and mark making convey emotion...
Season of Habit Intentions
Habit It's the first week of the season and this week will really set you up for success. Habit is going to change your art life. Just take a look at the comments on Instagram,...
Finished is the new perfect
Failure Failure is a feelingReading the discussion in the forums I get the idea we still don't quite know what a „failure“ is. So I want to address two failures –...
Feeling like you’re not good enough
Failure The lovely Rebecca is sharing a vulnerable, open look into her life and what failure means to her. Rebecca Brown Rebecca, born in Sweden, lives just outside...
A Pep Talk
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Create with Sera
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Motif
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Finding your personal shape system for fast creating
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Turn your mood into an art journal page
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The Magic in Underpaper
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Thoughts on a Daily Practice
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Welcome to Pieces
Welcome to the class!
Closing Thoughts
I really hope you enjoyed Transference! I know image transfers may seem a bit daunting at first, but once you’ve learned all the steps and have created a process that works for you, they become simple and easy to do. I really hope this class helps to clear up the process and leaves you inspired to create more image transfer spreads in your journals!
Closing Thoughts
A walk through of my (almost!) completed art journal.
06 • THE FINISHED JOURNAL
The Minimalist Art Journal > Bonus06 • The Finished Journal
Be awakened by Meagan
X#gmseasonofXWhy do you art journal? I art journal to keep myself sane. I have struggled with depression, anxiety and insomnia since I was a teenager. I have a...
Be moved by Karen
X #gmseasonofX Why do I art journal? Because it’s my creative outlet and there are no rules, no perfection, just expression! Art journaling gives me the...
Be stimulated by Jenn
X#gmseasonofX Why do you art journal? Art journaling is one of my avenues where I can freely express myself. I love the idea of having snippets of how I felt, what...
Meet Francisca
Francisca shares how she discovered her passion, and the way that she blend together her two passions. Nature and Art.
Season of Fairy Tales: Member Art Journal Flip Through
This season you guys have shown up and blow us away! We have been in awe of everything you guys are making and we are so sad to have come to the end. But! The end means that many of you are finishing up some really incredible art journals and sharing your final flip...
Bloom Season Hangout Replay with Francisca
This is a snippet of our Season of Bloom hangout with Francisca. This is an unstructured hangout and the only invitation was to bring collage papers with.
Gifts Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative Team The end of the year is officially here and that means it is time for our creative team...
Dreams Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofdreams"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way...
70 Ways to produce more than you consume
The focus of my life currently is this:
PRODUCE MORE. CONSUME LESS.
It’s a bold statement. With so much great stuff on the internet, and with it being so easy to be sucked into Pinterest, Instagram, blogs, and galleries, I’m needing to step back all the more. We consume so many things every day that actively trying to produce more than that is a big feat. There are two ways of doing it: either producing more than a hundred things per day, or drastically reducing how much you consume and making more than that number. I don’t want what I make to be influenced by someone else’s. I don’t want to be comparing how much I make. I don’t want to be making less because I’m too busy staring in awe at someone else’s stuff. I want my Ideas book to be a to do list and I want to get. shit. done.
There are a million reasons why I want to consume less and the number one reason is to produce more. I want to make a lot of stuff. I want to make up for lost time. I want to record all my memories before I lose them. I want to make a whole bunch of rubbish stuff so that I can get to making the good stuff.
And so I made an action plan. Here are the ways that I’m shifting my default to producing instead of consuming.
Flip Through
Here’s a complete flip through of how I documented my days using The Diarist, the A5 journal I’ve used for the previous year.
Week 3 – Twigs + gelli plate + thread
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...
Week 2 – Watercolours + pens + something found
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...
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...
Collage Relaxation
Promise#gmseasonofpromiseYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Relax with your art and get into flow state with this easy art journaling technique. Repurpose scraps...
Pocket Goodies
Add a pocket to hold tags or other created goodies in any art journal.
02 – Vision Boards
This lesson takes you through my process of creating a vision board centring around the theme of environments that inspire me. In this process, I take the time to go through and...
All the Materials
In this lesson, I introduce all the materials you can use for journaling. From different journal sizes, to pen types, to stationery, this materials overview will provide you some ideas on which tools you would like to add to your journaling stash.
Art as a Must Do Rather than a Nice to Do with Gilly Welch
In this Messy Conversations episode, Jenna chats with Gilly about her creative process and thinking around art journaling. They discuss how art journaling encormpasses everything and how you make it what you want it to be.
Gilly shares how she’s able to be creative every single day due to the freedom given – no boundaries, and no rules. We are all busy but when we put small bits together with pockets of time, it starts to make a huge difference.
Don’t Compromise with Barbara J Graham
Barbara’s lessons from her own creative story. Going to art school at 37. Exploring mediums like a child, how the inner critic shouldn’t exist, resourcefulness and restraint, and never compromising.
Happy Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofhappy"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way of...
Fun Formats to Try
This lesson walks you through fun formats to try with documenting your days.
Learn to Love Your Sketchbook and Create Consistently
Minnie Small shares the joys and benefits of sketchbooking, how to make it easier for yourself to create art regularly, and a bit about her own creative journey... all while painting.Transcript Disclaimer: This transcript was created by a machine and...
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...
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...