Get Messy Art: The No-Rules, No-Judgment, No-Pressure Approach to Making Art - Create with Watercolor, Acrylics, Markers, Inks, and More [Paperback]

Getting messy is the best part of creating!Get Messy Artgives you the freedom, inspiration, and ideas to experiment and play with art techniques and projects to create perfectly imperfect art.

We’re always told that play and experimentation is the foundation ofgrowing as an artist. But where do you start? Where to findnew techniquesto try? How do youbring them all together?Get Messy Arthas all the guidance, instruction, and inspiration you need. Based on the popular online class and community websiteGet Messy Art, this book brings together tons ofcreative art techniques and projects, includingpainting with watercolor and acrylic, mark-making,drawing with markers and pen and ink, sketching faces, and much more.

The fun doesn’t stop there. You’ll also learn how tomake your own art journals and trendy junk journals—easy handmade books to work in that are personalized and one of a kind.

InGet Messy Artyou’ll discover:
 

• A welcoming environment that encourages play and experimentation, to help you become the artist you always wanted to be.
• How to use no-rules, no-stress art techniques as a creative outlet to express feelings.
• Actionable inspiration that will keep you going, even when motivation is scarce.
• Fresh techniques that will show you innovative ways to use low-cost supplies such as paint and mediums, stencils, pens, and paper.
• Easy background techniques that will get you started and banish fear of the blank page.
• The satisfaction of making your own unique journals using simple methods.

Ultimately, art is all about creating for the sake of creating.It’s powerful, it’s cathartic, it’s messy—and it’s all yours. It’s time to get messy!

Caylee Greyis a South African artist who created Get Messy Art in 2014lÏ