The Catalyst: Embrace The Power Of The Journal - $129
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
Rae Missigman
Rae Missigman, mixed media artist, author and instructor, is known for her vivid colors, intricate layering, and signature repetitive art marks. As an artist, Rae believes that creativity can be accomplished in bite sized pieces during even the busiest days. As an instructor, Rae strongly encourages all artists to trust themselves to fearlessly do what they love. She champions a bold voice, continuing education and finding inspiration in the everyday.
Claudette Hasenjager
Claudette Hasenjager is a mixed-media artist living in sunny South Africa. She firmly believes that art has the power to heal and nurture the soul. Her art reflects the many facets of her inner landscape and gives expression to her multi-passionate personality. It is this deep calling from within that has fueled her passion for exploring various forms of creative expression. Through her art and her creative process, she strives to inspire others to heed the call of their own unique creative yearning, free their artist soul, and find comfort and healing through developing their own art practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jane Lee
Meet Jane Lee, a down-to-earth destination wedding photographer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She's not your typical globe-trotting photographer, but she does love a good adventure.
Jane's work takes her to different countries, and she absolutely enjoys every moment of her travels. What sets her apart is her simple yet heartfelt way of documenting her journeys. She carries her favourite Travelers Notebook, a trusty journal and her camera wherever she goes.
For Jane, it's all about capturing the essence of her adventures and the people she meets along the way. She takes plenty of photos and makes sure to print them out to keep record of her experiences. She believes in the power of sharing, and that's why she shares her journaling process on her Instagram and YouTube.
Jane also has a deep appreciation for art. She incorporates various media and techniques into her journal. From colorful splashes to reusing food label stickers, Jane's journal is a masterpiece in itself, filled with layers of creativity and emotions.
Jane's approach is relatable and grounded, just like your favorite travel companion who loves to document the journey as much as the destination. And she brings her artistic flair to every page, turning her journal into a work of art that reflects the beauty of her travels.
Tamara Łuć
Tamara Łuć is a South African mixed-media artist based in Poland, known for exploring raw emotions and life's complexities through her art. She uses painting as a means of self-discovery and healing. Alongside her artwork, she offers workshops and resources to inspire others, while also hosting a podcast featuring insights, interviews, and discussions on art and personal growth.
Mary Wangerin
Mary is a mixed media artist living with her husband and their two children in the Pacific Northwest, where the forest meets the sea. Mary feels most at home with a paintbrush in one hand and a delicious cup of coffee in the other. When she is not painting, you can find her exploring nature with her boys, perusing a thrift store, or homemaking- with Gilmore Girls turned on in the background.
Julie Hamilton
Julie Hamilton is an artist who practices play and possibility. Her work is abstracted from nature. She loves using all of the mixed media materials, collage being her favorite.
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.
Class Lessons
-
Welcome to The Catalyst -
Crazy Happy + Vintage -
Holding Space -
Crafting Your Unique Self Portrait -
Sketch It Out, Color It In -
A Practice in Pieces -
Releasing Emotion and Embracing Vellum -
Kaleidoscope Color Wheel -
Paper Scraps Poetry -
Feeling it All -
Conquering Blank Page-itis -
Make Your Journal Your Own
Recommended Supplies
This class is a plus class powered by Get Messy
This class is included in our Membership+ or available for purchase separately to anyone else! Class access will remain as long as your Membership+ is active, or long-term if purchased separately. Lifetime access is not tied to any of our current memberships.
Membership +
-
Billed monthly
-
100+ classes
-
1000+ Art Journaling lessons
-
Access to Get Messy Community
-
Access to Artist Dates & Messy Hangouts
-
Access to all plus classes
-
Access to all recorded workshops
Buy plus class
-
Long term access
-
Full access to the The Catalyst: Embrace The Power Of The Journal class
-
Access to private Get Messy Community
-
Access to the private class community to ask your teacher questions and interact and build community with other artists in the class
