Messy Pages

A Guide to Mixed Media Journaling

Messy Pages is like sitting down with your best friend and creating incredible art journal pages together that are full of heart and soul, pages that are bursting with inspiration and colour.

In this course you will create over 40 different types of pages using a large variety of tools, supplies and techniques.

Messy Pages includes tips for choosing the right journal, how to choose the best supplies and mediums for you, simple explanations for art journaling terms, supplies and how-to’s and examples and ideas on how to approach prompts to create pages. You will learn how to begin an art journal page by better understanding if your page needs gesso or not (and what the heck that even is). The course is jam packed with techniques and tutorials on how to use our favourite mediums like blending, calligraphy, gelli printing, using afferent pens and crayons (!!!), inks, acrylics, collage, gel mediums, watercolours and so so so many more!

This course is perfect for the beginner art journaler who would like to have someone walk them through the basics of understanding all the art journal lingo like mediums and gesso and what in the world a gelli plates is.

The course will challenge an experienced art journaler who desires to learn more fluid and experimental art techniques like painting galaxies, dreamy clouds, using inks, creating abstract backgrounds and so much more.

Messy Pages is all about stretching your art skills and supplies to create intuitive and messy pages to express yourself and your creativity in new ways