Get Messy Art

This tutorial will show you two different ways of creating texture in your art journal using minimal supplies, making it the perfect beginners technique.

How to Photograph Your Journal

Hello, lovely Messians! Sasha (@sasha_zeen) here! Many of you might know me as a fellow Messian and the Get Messy Instagram Community Manager. I am so excited to be here to share a quick photo tutorial with you. Whether you are only starting out your creative or...

Let’s Get Fancy: Taking collage further with your Gelli Plate

Artist Julia Bethmann shows you use your gelli plate to get more out of your collage work.

How to use modeling paste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSfX4bolNw&feature=emb_title

Level up your art by drawing into wet paint

Artist Cait Sherwood shows you a really simple technique for leveling up your art. Draw into wet paint and create a deeper art journal page.

How to make a travel watercolour set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoY16ouEtKU

Loose Watercolor Flowers

Sasha Zeen shows you how to paint loose watercolor flowers.

How to use a Brush Pen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1s_WANejog

How to draw faces

Divyam shows you how to draw a face so you can add unique characters to your art journal.

How to make an easy journal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MTr2A5j1c

How to use oil and chalk pastels

This post is concentrating on both oil and chalk pastels, as well as other medias. Pastels are a great way to add texture, depth and variety into your art. The colour pay off and resistance you get from oils is fun and powerful whilst chalks can be soft, beautifully...

How do I add foil to my art?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zerR_st_CZM

Getting Started with Collage: Tips & Journal Spread Process

Amanda gives you some tips for getting started with collage and creating a fun, uplifting journal spread.

Procreate App Tutorial for Beginners

Using the iPad app Procreate to create in new ways.

Fun ways to create in an altered vintage book

Seven tips for making an altered book art journal.

Create 5 easy grunge backgrounds in your art journal

In this post I’ll be sharing 5 easy ways to create grungy, gritty and textured backgrounds in your art journals. A lot of my own art journal pages start out with these techniques, because I love that raw, messy texture they can create. These backgrounds techniques can...

9 ways to add text to your art journal

For many of us, images come most easily when we’re art journaling, and for others working with text feels more natural. Being a wordy, languagey, writer-type, I am definitely one of the latter. That being the case, I want to show you some of the different techniques I...

Make Your Own Collage Papers using a Gelli Plate

Helpful tips for beginning gelli plate users to feel comfortable.

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...

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...

Creative Reflections and Intentions: Goal Setting as an Artist

The end of the year holds so much resolution and finality. It’s the closing of a chapter. But this also implies the newness of the next. It holds so much promise. Rather than focusing on the end or on the beginning, I encourage you to sit right in that feeling of...

How to bind a three hole pamphlet stitch

This is a lesson from Basic Bookbinding. Whatever your inner artist needs to create, build yourself the perfect handbound book with this course to capture all of your beautiful art and precious words. In Basic Bookbinding, you will learn how to bind four different...