Making art should be easy. But let’s be honest: Art is messy. (Heck, life is messy!) Together with me, Caylee Grey, we’ll explore what it REALLY means to be an artist. Practically. Warts and all. So that you can be an artist, today, now, even if you work a day job, have a million and one commitments, and own a cat that likes sitting on your art. No more excuses. Okay? Okay.
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Check out my art around this here: https://getmessyart.com/the-mess-makes-for-the-best-art/ 🎙️ Full show notes and more information 📖 Buy the book ✨ Embrace imperfection and join Get MessyBy Caylee Grey
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You can find the free PDF sharing my favourite books for art journalers here: https://getmessyart.com/when-you-cant-create/ (https://getmessyart.com/when-you-cant-create/). --- 🎙️ Full show notes and more information: https://getmessyart.com/category/blog/podcast/ (https://getmessyart.com/podcast) 📖 Buy my book: https://www.getmessyart.com/book (ht…
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Self Publishing a Book with Kristin Tweedale
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Telling your story is important. Telling your story of your life is what connects you to others, and helps them feel a little less lonely. By telling your story, you give others permission and remind them of their worth. The story-telling champion, Kristin Tweedale, and I talk about telling your story for yourself as well as for self-publishing. Sh…
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The Art of Book Writing with Misty Granade
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When I started art journaling, I started because I wanted to be an artist. But, step one to being an artist is making art. It's the same for writing a book. Step one to writing a book is actually sitting down and writing. The absolute Queen of Process, The Queen of Doing the Thing, is Misty Granade. When I found out that she was writing a book I kn…
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Structure vs. Chaos in Creativity with Sarah Gardner
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Sarah and I chat about the way she sees creativity - a place that has space for both structure and chaos. We talk about the harmony of her left and right brain sides of her brain. Creativity is impossible unless you're willing to embrace uncertainty. You have to widen the scope of possibility in order to create something new. Man, it's another good…
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How to Publish a Book with my Fairy Bookmother, Jeannine Stein
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Prepare yourself for a bucket load of fangirling. Jeannine is one of my favourite people in the world - my editor, my Fairy Bookmother, and all-around dream maker. She changed my life, and in this episode, we're sharing insight into the process of publishing a book from the perspective of an editor, and of the writer. We talk about starting with th…
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7 Ways to Feel Less Alone as a Creative (Zoom-Fatigue-Free)
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The life of a creative can be lonely. And let’s face it: whether we identify as creatives or not, we all know what this pretty rubbish state of being feels like. As humans, we’re hard-wired for connection: we long to be understood by others, we long for relationships with people with whom we can go through our struggles and celebrate life’s wins. T…
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What it's Really Like Running a Six Figure Creative Business with Deborah Engelmajer
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Deborah is my business bestie. She runs a membership for handmade sellers called Tizzit. We send each other daily voice notes about the highs and lows of business and everything in between. In this podcast episode, which is essentially a one-hour voice note, we discuss work/life balance, Deb's French/Australian accent and whether it holds her back,…
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I believe that anyone can make art but not everyone can be an artist. I know that the common narrative is that everyone can be an artist, however, I disagree with that. Well. Slightly. Let me explain... --- 🎙️ Full show notes and more information: https://getmessyart.com/category/blog/podcast/ (https://getmessyart.com/podcast) ✨ Embrace imperfectio…
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Let Go of Control and Make Imperfect Art with Kelli Saginak
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You guys. This is an episode in which I share the wisdom and kindness of my life coach. This is the one single human who has changed my life the most in the past year - the beautiful Kelli Saginak. Kelli opens up about her history with control and anxiety, we talk about practical ways of dealing with lack of control, how to do things in a way that …
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Bookcast Series #2: It's All About the Proposal
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The proposal was the first official task of writing my book. It's also what ended up being my compass and my rock. It was a mammoth task, but it was also easy? Why? Because I had already done the work... the year before in a very deep way and also every single year for 5 years. This is the second episode in my Bookcast series. Bookcast is a group o…
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I have a massive girlcrush on Laurel. If you've ever struggled to create art that looks like the art going on in your head, then you're going to discover your newest girlcrush too. If you're a food person, same thing. Hell, if you are a living, breathing, creative, then Laurel will find her way to the top of your list. --- 📖 Buy my book: https://ww…
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Whether you're exploring a new country or your own backyard, here are practical tips on how to travel like an artist rather than a tourist. --- View this on YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/cayleegrey 🎙️ Full show notes and more information: https://getmessyart.com/category/blog/podcast/ (https://getmessyart.com/podcast) ✨ Embrace imperfection and jo…
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How to Write an Art Book in a Pandemic with Kellee Conrad
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Last year, Kellee went through an intense creative burnout. I've been through many of those myself. This episode is about what's waiting on the other side. Kellee and I have loads in common, including writing a book with the same publisher and even the same superhero editor. Going through a large-scale project like writing a book when the world is …
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Bookcast Series #1: The Beginning - I Wrote a Book!
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Life is experienced in moments. Some of these moments hold more weight. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I can feel the weight of some moments. There are certain moments in my life that I knew while they were happening that they would change everything. This is the first episode in my Bookcast series. Bookcast is a group of podcast episodes de…
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A Spa for Your Creative Soul with Shay Kent
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Shay is so full of wisdom and kindness, and she encourages that you create the same within yourself too. After hearing a testimonial about her class, that it was “like a spa for your creative soul”, I knew I had to pick her brain. Grab your supplies and listen mindfully while you work… Shay is the guest artist for the Season of Mindfulness at Get M…
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Creating Authentic Art from the Inbetween with Rachael Helmore
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Rachael is my friend in real life. Not only is this episode proof that I have friends, it's also an exploration into what creating art in the "in-between" looks like. Rach is someone who says things that are so profound that I have to whip out my notebook in real life to write it down. I knew that we had to record one of our discussions for the pod…
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I had never thought of photography as art. I had always thought it was just for logical people following a very precise way of doing things. It felt like the opposite of creativity to me. Enter Pete. Pete sees creativity in a way not unlike my own - as a looping rollercoaster with no end goal and just the journey to go with. Turns out photography i…
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How to Deal with Artistic Block with Tricia Poulos-Leonard
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Today I sat down with Tricia. Tricia is wise and someone that you wanna have in your corner because she's very zen about art making, very knowledgeable and plays between the right and left side of your brain so well. She's a great encourager and wise mentor. We talk about her creative routines and how they've changed over the course of her life. We…
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Dance Naked in Perfection's Face with T Grey
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Every guest I have on the podcast is my favourite, but this is my favourite favourite and most exciting. It's someone who excites me every day. My husband, T Grey. We're talking about what it's like being on the other side of someone who lives life creatively. We get into the way his logical, rock solid, INTJ brain sees art, and his evil plans for …
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Intuitive Art for the Recovering Perfectionist with Iris Fritschi-Cussens
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This is the story of what happens when a perfectionist decides to actively go against her own nature in lieu of making the art that her soul needs. Iris and I talk about her brave decision to deliberately choose wonkiness, ignore self-doubt, and go for process over product in order to live her true creative life. If you're a perfectionist, Iris wil…
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The Get Messy Season of Collaboration was in January. But community continues to be a Big Deal to us Messy Artists. If you've ever experienced a creative drought, you'll know the impact that your creative family can have on helping you through it, giving tips on finding the other side, and making you feel less alone in your struggle. If you've ever…
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Collaboration for Art and Heart with Char + Claudette
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For the month of January, we focused on creative collaboration at Get Messy. Claudette Hasenjager and Char DeRouin led the way to nurture a safe space for artists to find their creative soul mate. For just the month, or for beyond. This excitement about creative collaboration stemmed from their own experiences collaborating with each other. In this…
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Art as a Must Do Rather than a Nice to Do with Gilly Welch
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In this Messy Conversations episode, Jenna chats with Gilly about her creative process and thinking around art journaling. They discuss how art journaling encormpasses everything and how you make it what you want it to be. Gilly shares how she's able to be creative every single day due to the freedom given - no boundaries, and no rules. We are all …
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Creating After a Drought, Art Meditation, and other Questions
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This is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode, where you're the one who asks me anything and I'm the one who answers. We cover a host of topics, mostly about supplies and where I'm at in my creative practice.I share my favourite tools, classes, and resources for making art. I discuss themes I'm processing through art (now and always), coming back to art…
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No Rules. No Perfection. Just Expression with Karen Price
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Nope, Caylee didn't become an American for the new year. That smooth, calming radio voice you're listening to is Get Messy Guardian's @ginnistonik. She's interviewing the marvellous Guardians of the Community to bring even more inspir-action and encouragement to your ears.The best part of someone else hosting the podcast is that we get to wax lyric…
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The best thing to come out of 2020 for me has been my studio. It's my one true love (sorry T). It's an old shipping container in an old slaughterhouse. It's gritty, and raw, it's hipster as hell, and its mine.This studio has enabled me to do that weird thing people talk about called "work-life-balance" and for that, I am truly grateful.I wanted to …
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Take Time to Freaking Make with Anna Baer
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Why is it so difficult to just. make. art? We know how much we love it and how it feeds our soul. We know it makes us better in a multitude of ways, but sometimes even the thing we love the most can feel like a massive effort.I talk to Anna Baer, aka Olive Green Anna, about this. We talk about her mad skills – in creating art, in getting others to …
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Using Art to Narrate Your Journey with Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd
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The podcast is back! And we're jumping right into the deep end. We're not talking about surface level art here, no no, you can't really do that with my guest. Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd and I are talking about a way to get around how damn hard it is to put your inner heart into your art. Not just putting your likes and dislikes onto the page, not just yo…
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The focus of my life currently is this:PRODUCE MORE. CONSUME LESS.It’s a bold statement. With so much great stuff on the internet, and with it being so easy to be sucked into Pinterest, Instagram, blogs, and galleries, I’m needing to step back all the more. We consume so many things every day that actively trying to produce more than that is a big …
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Connecting with Yourself with Elaine Kiziah
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One of the biggest things that art journalers struggle with in their creative practice is the journaling part of art journaling. It’s weird. I know. A while back, I invited a journaling expert to help the Get Messy community with how to find the words. Elaine Kiziah completely blew it out of the park with the workshop she created for us. Journaling…
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Why Art Journaling? with Wendy Solganik
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What is it about art journaling that makes it actual magic? Out of all the different ways to be creative, why do we choose art journaling? Why is this the one thing we have stuck with over time, and the one thing that we are constantly falling in love with? In order to answer this question with Wendy Solganik, we need to dissect her entire creative…
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Connection, Structure and Silliness with Sandra Busby and Tara Roskell
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You are going to love this episode. I’m chatting with Tara and Sandra from Kick in the Creatives. And if you don’t know them yet, by the end of this episode, you’re going to fall just as in love with them as I have. And good news for you because they’ve got their own podcast and you can binge listen to them and just take in everything that they hav…
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Today I chatted with the incredible Barbara J Graham. She is the guest artist for Get Messy's Season of Less. We spoke a lot about how she creates, how she puts her emotions into her paintings, and how she is able to express the intangible in something tangible. Barbara has a beautiful story about how she came to art and how art was there all along…
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Finding Joy and Flow in Your Creativity with Hannah Fitzgibbon
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Oh, Messy artist, I have a treat for you this week on the podcast. Today I spoke with Hannah Fitzgibbon, and let me tell you… I feel like my whole world has changed. My creativity has been rocked, everything… You are going to love Hannah as much as I love her because she is amazing, articulate, and wise. The stuff that we spoke about today has revo…
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I recently received an email from Kate, who had a problem. I could relate and wanted to help. Maybe you need to hear this too. If you're feeling overwhelmed with how many options you have, if you're feeling stuck creatively, or if you're a perfectionist and you're super hard on yourself.... this episode is my letter to you. Here's what to do.And of…
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Art for Excitement and Yumminess with Connie Solera
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Today’s episode is a good one. You’re gonna love it. I know you’re gonna love it because it has Connie Solera in it. And Connie has a heart of gold. She’s a great teacher. She’s an incredible artist and I feel like she was put on this earth just to make everyone else better artists – she’s wonderful. Connie is also the guest artist for the season a…
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Today I am chatting with the beautiful, the kind, the lovely Meg Journals. She has a beautiful accent, a beautiful heart and beautiful journals to match. It was a completely spontaneous interview chat thing just as I was heading off to the train station for my mom but I hope that you create as we chat. I love Meg, I know that you are going to love …
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Morning pages are going to change your life. Morning pages are going to give you better art, better relationships, better mental health and a clear head. In this episode, I'm going to chat about how I make them work for me and give you an exact to do list on how you can make them work for you, how you can rock them, how you can make your life rock …
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The Magic of a Sketchbook with Karen Abend
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Once again I am freaking excited about this week's guest on the podcast. This week it's the beautiful Karen Abend. She has a heart of gold and I'm really excited about our chat today. In this episode we discuss the absolute magic of sketchbooks. We discuss how sketchbooks are the root of everything creative, no matter what you call them - sketchboo…
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Real Life is What Makes Art with Johanna Clough
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"You’re putting your life into it so that’s what makes it something special. That’s what makes you appreciate it and other people as well. It really doesn’t matter what you use and it’s funny to say that because I make journals and I’m very passionate about it because I think what you use can inspire you and be a very, very powerful tool to keep yo…
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"I don't take it upon myself to make my art last forever." - Mou SahaMou is the guest artist for Get Messy's Season of Belonging and she is an absolute zen queen. We talk about her journey, how she created belonging within her art, how she tells her truth, and her journey to realising that she is enough.---🎙️ Full show notes and more information: h…
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Be Intentional About Your Artist Journey with Cindy Jay and Debbie Bamberger
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Every year, Get Messy hosts a workshop on reflecting back on the year, and creating intentions for the year ahead. This year we have two very special guests. Print out the workbook, grab a pen and watch the video below where Debbie, Cindy, and Caylee walk you through reflecting on 2019 and planning for 2020.Cindy Jay and Debbie Bamberger are prolif…
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Walking the 5 Paths of Journaling with Rebecca Kochenderfer
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In this episode, I chat to Rebecca Kochenderfer, the founder of Journaling.com and a lifetime journaler. Rebecca shares her experiences, approach, and tips surrounding the practise for both business and personal life. She walks us through the five paths of journaling, effects on our well-being and methods of journaling."It's not selfish to look out…
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How to Art with Intention with Amy Maricle
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"The only bad art is the art you don't make" - Amy MaricleIn this podcast, I chat to Amy Maricle about art with intention. Amy shares some of her most profound views on how to become more aware and intentional in your art practice. We discuss what it means to be mindful, how mindfulness changes your art, being zen about thinking big and letting go,…
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How to maintain a creative habit with Anika Lacerte
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If you want to be an artist, if you want to create a lot of work and for it to be a part of your life - you do need a creative habit. It doesn’t need to be an hour every day.In this podcast, I chat to Anika Lacerte about creative habit. As someone who is currently on her 9th 100 day project, Anika is kind of an expert at it. She shares her top 16 w…
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Inspiration does not exist. It's a lie. Inspiration is not real. True inspiration is the kind that leads to immediate action. Inspiration that leads to nothing tangible is... nothing.There's something tangible standing between an idea and something being realised. That something is YOU.YOU ARE THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN FEELING WARM AND FUZZY …
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Creating art with a purpose beyond yourself with Morgan Harper Nichols
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In this episode of the podcast, I was awed by Morgan Harper Nichols. Yup, that's right. The Morgan Harper Nichols. MHN and I talk about how selflessness is important to her artistic process. How she finds purpose in her art by creating beyond herself. As someone who created an entire life and business around creative community, this chat rocked my …
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How I went from lazy and passive to deliberate and goal driven
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I used to be what I will graciously call passive.I had (and have) a really good life. I was born into a self-made wealthy family. Every bit of my life (and the lives of my ancestors) was put together so that I could live an easy life. My parents did this weird thing where they actually loved each other. They loved me too. My sister was amazing. My …
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Making art should be easy. Turn up the music, select your arty weapons of choice, crack your knuckles and then, well, make art. But let’s be honest: Art is messy. (Heck, life is messy!)So even though it’s so important to you to be an artist and create art regularly … you aren’t. I get it. You can't be an artist because you have no time.You can't be…
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