I have been quiet, and not making much art with all my free time, because I’m just in survival mode and my mind only can do things like process what I feel in my journal. So much going on in my life and in the world.
Just wanted to let you know that is ok to stay still and not be productive if you don’t feel like it. But if you do, let your emotions fill your canvas, pages, kitchen, dance floor and more.
Sending you a hug!!
Just wanted to know how are you doing? This time of hardship have us a little confused and nervous, but I’m confident we will overcome this. I did a couple of videos were I show my process for expressive painting and Visual Journaling.
Both methods are good to express how we feel and just play a little. Play is the basic form of therapy, so if you are feeling anxious, and you are curious about creating, I encourage you to pick up some art materials and start your process today. No rules, just play!!
Painting. In this exercise you will see my process to paint without rules, just for fun and to express how I feel. I do this questions when I paint.. 1-If I were 3 years old, how would I paint? 2-What would I paint if this painting does not matter? 3-How would I paint caos? 4-If I could paint with attention to detail or very small, how would I do it? 5-Nobody is going to see this painting, how would I paint? 6-If there were no rules, how would I paint? 7-If I could paint very very small, what would I add? 8-This painting doesn’t have to make any sense, what would I paint? You can continue to paint as if you were just playing.
Visual Journal. I do this exercise a lot, I have a couple of journals that I keep close by. Is something different that I add to my art practice, because is not me creating for a product or with art techniques in mind. I’m just expressing. In this demonstration I added a painting I did in a separate paper, but quickly added photos from magazines. Is a Photo-collage Journal. If you are not keen on drawing, try collecting your favorite images, words or quotes from magazines or books, and/ or print memorabilia and make a regular practice of creating an image journal. It can be any theme [travel, soothing images, etc] and a glue stick and start gluing. I then wrote words and phrases that came in to my mind at the moment of making the collage. Visual journaling itself ought to serve that purpose of stress reduction and emotional regulation.
Sending you a big hug friends!!!