Get Messy

Season of Growth

with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Growth looks like so many things other than constant forward motion. Growth is blossoming, and settlings, and processing, and allowing.

This season, Julie, Mary, and Jane guide you in becoming a better artist through practice, mess and masterpiece, and mindless playfulness. Here’s to a season of growth - whatever it looks like for you.

Class Lessons

Welcome
Prompts
Living an Artful Life
Become a Better Artist in 10-minutes a Day
On Letting Go
Mess + Masterpiece
My Home Art Studio
Mindless Playfulness

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist. Her bold, brightly colored artwork explores high contrast visual relationships, skating along the boundaries of aesthetic cacophony. She is the founder of the Art Journal Every Day movement, based on the idea of artistic improvement in simple doable 10-minute bursts.

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.

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.