The Catalyst: Embrace The Power Of The Journal

This class is for you whether you already deeply know the journal's power, have seen a few hints of it, or dream of discovering its depths.

This class is for you if you use your journal for release, process, curiosity, escape, beauty, mess, brain vomiting, heartstorming, art making, common placing, planning, breathing in, breathing out, memory keeping, happy bits, grief, play, practice, skill-building, fun, going deeper, keeping it light, and/or making a mess.

It's for you in the season you're in right now. 

Embrace the power of the journal.

Featuring: Caylee Grey, Rae Missigman, Julie Hamilton, Casey Turner, Mary Wangerin, Meg Journals, Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd, Jane Lee, Tania Ahmed, Meghann Early, Tamara Łuć, and Claudette Hasenjager. 
 

These 12 glorious artists are excited to guide you in using the journal as a catalyst and discovering its (and your) power. They will guide you through their creative processes for filling your journal. The artists in this class are all using the  Get Messy Art Journal. I'm biased - after 400+ journals, it's my favorite one. But just like the rest of the supplies, nothing is required. Use what you have. Creativity happens in the midst of imperfection, while you're figuring things out.

Caylee Grey - Truths About the Journal

Welcome to The Catalyst! What are your truths? What is your journal for? Page through my gloriously unfinished journal and get excited about filling in your own.

Rae Missigman - Sketch It Out, Color It In 

Get things out of your head and onto the page. This workshop is all about getting things out of our heads and onto the page. No perfection, just a soft landing place for the images and words that transform our blank journals into beautiful visual diaries. Simple beginnings, in the form of loose intuitive sketches are a great warmup for the color and collage that comes next. As we embrace the notion of free style journaling, we will learn to accept our scribbles, let go of the fear of covering them up and even approach our pages as mini vision boards for our swirling thoughts and ideas. 

Julie Hamilton - A Practice in Pieces 

The art of gestural mark making and many layers to create lively painted papers for use in collage. Large painterly work that is then deconstructed and then reconstructed using collage in your art journals. An opportunity to play and experiment and hopefully discover something new that you can use in your art practice.

Casey Turner - Releasing Emotion and Embracing Vellum

Art journaling is a need, it’s a healthy release of emotion. But what if we are intimidated by some of the pages in a journal? Can we fully lean into the process of art journaling if we are unsure how to work with certain pages? That’s how I felt about vellum…at first. But vellum can be your friend. I’m going to show you my art journaling process and how I’m embracing vellum. 

Mary Wangerin - Kaleidoscope Color Wheel  

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way- things I had no words for.” - Georgia O’Keefe

I absolutely love art journaling for all of the ways we can express thoughts + feelings through color, shapes, + texture, that we may not otherwise be able to communicate! 

In this lesson we will explore color + texture as we create our own version of a color wheel using favorite colors.

Meg Journals - Paper Scraps Poetry 

No words? No problem. Harness 'found phrases' and collage as tools for self-expression in your journal.

Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd - Feeling it All 

Check in with how you are feeling by using a transparency, color and bold lines to alter a portrait. We will trace a portrait which we will then alter using color, patterns and different media.

Tania Ahmed -  Conquering Blank Page-itis 

Take full advantage of the Get Messy Art Journal’s lay flat pages and gel print directly into your book of delights to create a bold, graphic, typography inspired spread. We will also incorporate elements of collage and learn how to add finishing touches to create a masterpiece that is personal, meaningful and uniquely you.

Meghann Early - Holding Space

Create a spread using the pocket  in your journal to practice forgiveness and self acceptance.

Tamara Łuć - Crafting Your Unique Self Portrait  

Come along on an insightful journey where we'll explore self-portraiture! In this lesson, we'll take a closer look at what questions we can ask, and knowledge we can gain from researching and looking at self-portraits. We will understand what we find attractive in others' art too and use that understanding to paint our own self-portraits in our journals.

Claudette - Make Your Journal Your Own 

Take your journal from beautifully pristine to wildly your own through some easy-to-follow techniques and reckless abandon.

Jane Lee - Bonus Lesson 

A surprise arriving in your classroom in May