Messy May No 5 - Free
Messy May No 5
For one month, you are invited to create daily-ish.
That's right, daily- ish.
This is a free challenge where above all, it's totally okay if you miss a day.
It's a challenge where if you complete even one out of the 31 challenges, we'll be celebrating.
This is a challenge for the mess makers and recovering perfectionists. It's for those who miss their creative practice, want to jump start it, or are absolutely rocking one.
Messy May is for you, exactly as you are right now.
Messy Collaboration
We call ourselves Messians. We’ve held solo and group gallery shows, published books, been in magazines and actual newspapers, created online art schools (and art communities of our own), been featured by Instagram, led retreats, sold our art, collaborated with other artists, quit our job for art, and taught art live.
Mainly, we’ve created a LOT of art.
Julia Cusworth
Julia is a British designer and creative enthusiast. She loves to express herself through shape, colour and pattern – living by the ethos of more is more!
Alyssa Griese
Living in Canada, with a BA in visual arts, Alyssa is a maker and lover of all things handmade. For Alyssa, embracing imperfections and chasing after “happy accidents” is the true magic of art journaling. Anything goes within the pages of her art journal and it has become an important place for her to process, to experiment and to play.
Michelle Schratz
Michelle is a mixed media artist with a strong passion for art journaling
Anouk Karssen
Anouk is an all-round creative from the Netherlands. For Anouk art journaling is a way to process her thoughts and emotions. In her creative journey Anouk tries to let go of her perfectionism by creating on a more intuitive level.
Sarah Rondon
Sarah is an artist and maker working with her hands - collage, jewelry, and quiet, tactile processes. She is drawn to texture, found materials, and the small rituals of creating.
Meg
Meg is a twenty-something art and junk journal lover who is obsessed with florals. She hosts the month-long prompt challenges #JunkJournalJanuary and #JunkJournalJuly on Instagram. She loves reading, cats, crochet, and a nice cup of tea.
Sarah Gardner
Sarah Gardner, also known as Juicy*S of Juicy*S Art, is a self-taught mixed media artist and teacher. She’s been teaching online since 2020, starting with Everything Art’s Wanderlust. She’s also been a teacher for Willa Workshops, Get Messy, Create Arts Online, One Badass Art Journal, and has her own Teachable learning platform: Juicy*S Mixed Media Art School. She’s been published in Strawberry Moon Magazine, featured in Kasia Avery’s “Creative Wanderlust,” and is the author of “Share Your Joy: Mixed Media Shareable Art.” Creativity is self-care for Sarah because playing with her art supplies in a curious and intuitive way allows her to banish her perfectionistic inner critic, and connect with her truest self. She has come to learn that it is this process, not the perfect end result, that brings her joy. A new art journaling course: “Layer ’til You Like it,” will launch soon in Sarah’s Teachable School. You can learn more at her website: https://www.juicy-s.net/
Meghann Early
Meghann is an NYC Based mixed media and collage artist & tarot reader. She loves to experiment with unconventional materials and believes that art making is for everyone.
Diana Mahar
Diana Mahar is a mixed-media artist, bookbinder and educator who discovered joy and flow in art journaling. This low-stakes, forgiving practice brought much-needed balance to her work life as a physician. She loves experimenting with found materials and is continually inspired by the lifelong learning that comes from a creative practice. She lives and works in Northern California.
Casey Turner
Casey is a self taught mixed media artist who fell in love with art journaling as a healthy outlet for releasing emotion during a time of grieving in her life. She enjoys teaching others how to art journal as well as how to incorporate their faith into their creative practice. She teaches classes online and hosts Christian art journaling retreats around the Unites States. She has taught for courses like Wanderlust, Get Messy, Flowers Magic Art Fest and more. She lives in the peaceful countryside of a tiny little no where town in Pennsylvania with her husband and children.
Tania Ahmed
Tania Ahmed is a UK based mixed media artist, art journaler and self-confessed serial gel printer. Born in Pakistan and now rooted in England, she draws inspiration from cultural motifs, bold patterns and personal symbolism, weaving them into layered pages and soulful prints.
Her teaching style is warm, a little chatty and equal parts technique and tough love: helping students let go of perfection-itis and remember that practice makes progress.
Her work is an invitation to make art that feels like you: imperfect, vibrant, alive and always evolving.
Amanda Trought
London-born Amanda is a Mixed Media Artist whose work has been exhibited globally, earning her numerous awards for her sculptural art and textile wall hangings. Her art has been featured in several publications and explores the use of art and creativity and its impact on health and well-being. In addition to her artistic practice, Amanda teaches both off and online and shares the use of developing an art journaling and creative practice. She curates an Arts in Health Network, and shares her expertise through podcasts, YouTube, and writing, inspiring others in the process.
