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Get Messy is an online art journaling school that teaches you to cultivate your creativity. Without perfection.
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Melanie Theriault escapes and processes her reality through art journaling
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? Art journaling is a healing liminal space that allows me to both escape my reality as well as process it. It is my self care at its best. Art journaling feels like home, it feels like personal growth, it...
Meghan Deinhard allows her inspiration to express itself in little books
Interview with art journal artist, Meghan Deinhard.
52 Ideas for Starting a New Art Journal
The main thing that stopped me from keeping a journal in the past was fear of the blank page. Specifically, fear of the very first blank page. My initial way of dealing that fear was to simply keep the first page blank, turn the page, and make the art. It's not a bad...
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...
Sheri Sears is messy and perpetually covered in paint and cuts
Interview with art journal artist, Sheri Sears.
Abbey Sy expresses herself on paper
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? Art journaling to me is all about expressing yourself on paper; regardless of what medium and purpose and style. Ultimately, these little decisions of materials being used, styles and layouts being...
Art and feelings flow out of Iris Fritschi-Cussens into her art journal
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? It is a home for my feelings, and a safe space to experiment being myself. Nowhere else do the feelings and art flow out of me as easily as in an art journal. My best art is in my journals. I haven't...
Misty Granade uses art journaling as an artistic springboard
Interview with art journal artist, Misty Granade.
Sarah Gardner connects to herself through art journaling
Interview with art journal artist, Sarah Gardner aka Juicy*S.
Art journaling gave Anouk Karssen a purpose in life
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? For me, art journaling goes so much further than making art. Art journaling gave me a purpose in life when I didn’t feel like I was enough for the world. It gave me a purpose to get out of bed each...
What to create when you don’t know what to create
Creativity ebbs and flows. There are ebbs where you have more ideas than time, there are flows where you have more time than ideas, and there are the bits where you have neither time nor ideas. It’s all part of being a creative human. Sometimes, even though you have a...
Art journaling is good for Lisa Goddard’s heart, mind, and soul
Artist SpotlightWhat is art journaling to you? Art journaling to me is a way to express my emotions, dreams, experiences, and imagination in a creative and constructive way in a place where there are no rules or constraints. It is good for the heart,...
