In the same way that roses are roses at every stage of their journey, your Artist Self is always your Artist Self. Whether you have only been art journaling for 3 months and your Artist Self is still a newborn, or your Artist Self is a wrinkly granny, you are exactly who you are and who you’re meant to be already.
So how do you bloom? It’s the same as a rose. You nurture, you cultivate, you have bucket-loads of water and probably some poop. You grow. You bloom.
This season is about the cultivation of you. The cultivation of your artist practice. I invite you to spend some time giving yourself that love and care into who you’ve always been.
Hyperbolic journaler and imperfect artist, Caylee Grey is also a wife and mother from South Africa. Caylee is the Fairy Artmother of the Get Messy art journal community, book, and art supplies brand. She has sworn an oath to embrace the messy middle and believes that more than zero is enough.
Denise Gasser is a fine artist, art facilitator, and mother of four boys. She loves making art & encouraging other busy, tired, inspired moms to do the same. Denise is the founder of the Art After project--where she only works on each small painting until she gets interrupted--which has had global reach on social media and aided in facilitating a larger conversation about the challenges and rewards of making art after motherhood.
A hapa, Lisa is an interdisciplinary artist who loves to make and teach things and is preoccupied by color (so much so that she wrote the book A Field Guide To Color with Roostbooks). She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills college and has exhibited her mixed media work internationally. She is profoundly interested in bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative.
Zero expectations. Zero pressure. All the fun.