1. I want one of these to wear, except that people would probably ask or say annoying things about it, negating it's usefulness. 2. Those oranges seem very rich and gorgeous. 3. Do you know anything about Art Therapy by oneself? 4. I need to draw and make again. 5. I get scared sometimes when I try to read a David Mack comic or look through people's crafts stores. Jealous, anxious and painful, sometimes.
1. I wish I could tell you "to hell with other people" but I only half mean it.
2. I think it was a magic marker. Magic!
3. I don't know much about art therapy really, at least not formally. I think most of my own art has been a form of therapy, but it's not been intentional exactly.
There are definitely books and websites that you can check out. I know I've seen prompts and exercises you can use to get you started if that kind of thing appeals to your process. I usually find the most inspiration from looking at things other people have done. If you go to flickr and type in "art therapy" or "visual journal" you get a good range of stuff.
I think it's really interesting how different people approach the visual journal thing. I have a friend who is ALL ABOUT collage. Everything he does is collage and they're so great, so expressive. But when I try to do collage it comes out contrived or just jumbled. I'm sure some of that is just practice, but I also think my brain's just not wired that way. (Apparently it's wired by monsters.)
4. Yes! Please do!
5. I think everybody who makes art (whatever that means) has that thought, or something similar. Art making is always personal. It's vulnerable too, or it puts you in a vulnerable place, which is hard.
I have to work really hard to not get jealous of someone else's talent. I have this terrible desire to be good at everything, which is setting myself up for failure. I have to do a lot of self-talk to keep myself from picking on the things I can't do.
But it's really interesting to read a professional artist talk about how hard something is for them, or how they drew something that they didn't like. From my perspective these are people whose drunken scribbles drawn in the dark with their left foot would be GOLDEN. But every artist has a critic inside and that critic is often brutal. Learning to live with that critic and work WITH it is so key to getting past the jealousy. I'm pretty sure I'll be working on that forever, maybe that's just how it goes.
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good luck in shaking the grumps! :)
2. Those oranges seem very rich and gorgeous.
3. Do you know anything about Art Therapy by oneself?
4. I need to draw and make again.
5. I get scared sometimes when I try to read a David Mack comic or look through people's crafts stores. Jealous, anxious and painful, sometimes.
2. I think it was a magic marker. Magic!
3. I don't know much about art therapy really, at least not formally. I think most of my own art has been a form of therapy, but it's not been intentional exactly.
There are definitely books and websites that you can check out. I know I've seen prompts and exercises you can use to get you started if that kind of thing appeals to your process. I usually find the most inspiration from looking at things other people have done. If you go to flickr and type in "art therapy" or "visual journal" you get a good range of stuff.
I think it's really interesting how different people approach the visual journal thing. I have a friend who is ALL ABOUT collage. Everything he does is collage and they're so great, so expressive. But when I try to do collage it comes out contrived or just jumbled. I'm sure some of that is just practice, but I also think my brain's just not wired that way. (Apparently it's wired by monsters.)
4. Yes! Please do!
5. I think everybody who makes art (whatever that means) has that thought, or something similar. Art making is always personal. It's vulnerable too, or it puts you in a vulnerable place, which is hard.
I have to work really hard to not get jealous of someone else's talent. I have this terrible desire to be good at everything, which is setting myself up for failure. I have to do a lot of self-talk to keep myself from picking on the things I can't do.
But it's really interesting to read a professional artist talk about how hard something is for them, or how they drew something that they didn't like. From my perspective these are people whose drunken scribbles drawn in the dark with their left foot would be GOLDEN. But every artist has a critic inside and that critic is often brutal. Learning to live with that critic and work WITH it is so key to getting past the jealousy. I'm pretty sure I'll be working on that forever, maybe that's just how it goes.
;)
[does that look just like me? i thought so.]
personally, i would have an x-axis of tiredness. they seem to usually be proportional.