The Raw & Messy Sessions
Where Messy Minds Meet.
These Raw and Messy sessions aren’t tutorials. They’re not polished. There’s no voice-over explaining every step. Just me, showing up with paint-stained fingers and all, and doing ‘the work’.
I started filming these videos for people like me. People who need a little nudge to get started. Who don’t always want to create alone. Who find comfort in watching someone else just… begin.
Raw and Messy Sessions are about being in the messy middle. The place where your desk’s a disaster, your mind’s all over the place, and nothing feels finished, but you keep going anyway.
You don’t need to follow along. You don’t need to know what you’re doing.
You just need to sit down, grab your art journal, junk journal or sketchbook, and make something. Anything.
So press play. Let’s get messy, together.
Where Does Anger Belong? (Art Journaling About Anger) | The Raw and Messy Sessions
Anger is an important emotion. It appears when something is taken from us, when ...we lose something, when we think something is unfair, or when we are not heard. It moves us and pushes us into action.
At the same time, the sentence also feels like a note to myself: anger belongs here, in my art journal. Not thrown at other people, but transformed into something meaningful.
I also talk about the past few weeks. I was away from YouTube for a while, and during that time something shifted. I started to feel more confidence and a stronger sense of my place in the world as an artist. It reminded me how essential self-expression is for me and why it now feels like the right moment to truly bring my method into the world.
Raw & Messy Sessions are my space for honest art journaling, reflection and creative self-expression. They are not to inspire, but to invite you to grab some art supplies and start messing around too.
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I'm Marieke Blokland, artist, designer and founder of Studio Bloknote.
At Studio Bloknote, I create raw, expressive art journaling and mixed media content that embraces imperfection, emotion, and creative rebellion.
Explore my website:
http://www.studiobloknote.com
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