Get Messy

Ama-ZINE

with Caylee Grey

Modern One-Page Journals

Traditionally, zines were single sheets of paper folded into eight to make a booklet. But here at Get Messy, we’re not that traditional…

In this class we have 8 zinemakers with diverse creative styles. Through these glorious teachers, you’ll learn:

how to harness the magic of cropping + losing control to make “reverse zines”

how to finish a zine in less than 60 minutes (with time left over to wonder at how easy that was)– how to make instructional zines (even for roasting chicken)

how to turn mundane moments into zines (even as a super busy person with an inability to “stay present”)

how to get fancy with folding

how to turn an art journal spread into an entire mini journal

how to fill a zine with flowers and affirmations

how to go back to the roots of zine-making, bring out your inner anarchist, and express yourself

All wrapped up in heaps of zine examples and ideas to get the idea cogs turning. At the end of the class, you won’t know what to do with all the ideas and techniques you’ll have in your back pocket… or wait… of course you know, you’ll become an amazing zine-making machine.

Class Lessons

Welcome
How to Make a Zine
Carolyn : 60 Minute Zines
Caylee : Reverse Zines
Debbie : Instructional Zines
Erin : Mundane Zines
Rory : Origami Zines
Sarah : Art Journal Zines
Steph : Affirmation Zines
Vanessa : Feminist, Anarchist Zines
Go Forth & Make Zines

Caylee Grey

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.

Debbie Barish

Dr. Debbie Barish is a nurse practitioner in Berkeley, California, providing sexual and reproductive health care for almost 30 years. She began art journaling 6 years ago with no prior art practice, and it changed her life. She lives with her family, works part-time, and art journals every single day.

Rory Grimes

Rory is a mixed media artist, art journaler, mom, dancer, and more living in Oklahoma. She created her first zine in the mid-nineties and, despite a lifetime of dabbling in different creative pursuits, has always returned to zine making as a prized form of written and visual self expression. Since discovering art journaling in 2020 she has sought to combine these art forms without sacrificing the grungy photocopy aesthetic and shareable nature of 1990s zines.

Erin Ware

Erin Ware is an artist, illustrator, and surface designer who finds all her best ideas tucked within the pages of her journals. She lives in Savannah, Georgia, with her husband, Nathan, and their kiddos, Felix and Evangeline. Teaching things like zine-making is actually her dream job.

Carolyn Nehring

Carolyn is a mixed media artist and has been art journaling on and off for years, but now makes it a daily practice since retiring. Carolyn loves to play and experiment with all things color, paint and collage. She hopes her art journals will inspire others to play as well.

Stephanie Tourial

Steph loves art, travel, and journaling. Born and raised in California. Living life as full as can be, one day at a time.

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/

Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd

Vanessa is a Canadian artist living abroad. She creates spaces for like-minded creatives to explore archetypes, art witchery and the self. Using her knowledge from her work as an archaeologist, she leads communal spaces to explore art and dig deep into ourselves at the same time.