Mou Saha

Mou is an artist, author, teacher and speaker. She has been published over 800 times in print media, appeared on PBS TV shows and taught workshops around the States, in Europe and online for Creativebug under JoAnn, Etc., Big Picture Classes, Michael’s, Get Messy and many more. Mou’s background as clinical psychologist fuels her ongoing quest for wellness through daily creative and spiritual practices. She has represented brands like Faber-Castell, Anna Griffin, Sizzix Ellison USA, etc. and been a freelance writer since 2005. Mou is a mom of three humans and one canine and lives in New Jersey, USA.

Catalysts by Mou Saha
Messy Recipes

Messy Recipes

Sometimes, your creativity needs a catalyst, and Messy Recipes includes a bunch of catalysts for creating an endless amount of art journal pages. Get Messy Fairy Artmother Caylee Grey has designed 12 recipes that include a list of “ingredients” (or supplies), a method with step-by-step directions, and pictures for guidance and inspiration. Guests artists have shared their favourite recipes too. Following the recipes exactly or using them as a guide, you can create endless variations. Perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike, Messy Recipes provides the catalysts for creativity that you can return to again and again.

Your Truth is Enough with Mou Saha

Your Truth is Enough with Mou Saha

Mou is the guest artist for Get Messy’s Season of Belonging and she is an absolute zen queen. We talk about her journey, how she created belonging within her art, how she tells her truth, and her journey to realising that she is enough.

Lettering

Lettering

Belonging#gmseasonofbelongingTurn your monoprinted pages into lettering with Mou's technique.Transcript (this transcript is automatically generated and is sure to contain...

Recipe 13

Recipe 13

#getmessyrecipes Unfinished/ extra tags and magazine cut-outs (choose the ones that will fit your current journal) Any homemade embellishments – I used clay. Anything goes. Acrylic Paint and brush....

Monoprinting

Monoprinting

Belonging#gmseasonofbelongingIn this workshop, Mou walks you through the supplies she uses for monoprinting, and guides you through her process for creating a monoprinted...

Recipe 15

Recipe 15

#getmessyrecipes Food packaging, cleaned and cut out (choose the ones that will fit your current journal) Acrylic Paints and brush. Pick your favorite paint. Scissors and glue Brush pen for lettering...

Recipe 14

Recipe 14

#getmessyrecipes Dried and emptied used tea bags, coffee filters, leftover painted papers, magazine cut-outs and security envelope (choose the ones that will fit your current journal) Acrylic Paint...

Hangout with Mou

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

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....

Meet Mou Saha

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...

07 – It’s a Matter of Perspective

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

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

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

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

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

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...

01 – The Inner Child

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...

Breaking Patterns by Mou Saha

Breaking Patterns by Mou Saha

ChaptersYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Use your art journal as an intentional self-healing tool. We will focus on spotting some of our unproductive thought patterns and creating...

3.2 Highest Self

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

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...

Wrapping Up

Wrapping Up

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...

Welcome to Becoming Whole

Welcome to Becoming Whole

An introduction to the workshop and how it’s structured, the journals I’m using and a list of materials. “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would...

Day 05 Courage

Day 05 Courage

Remember: Bring your messy self, take what you need (no such thing as being behind), and remember that more than zero is enough. Here's the prompt for today's Messy May:What does COURAGE mean to you? Create an art journal spread with your take on...