Art, Heart and Healing

Hi Everyone,

In my October 6th post I told you about a FREE on line class that I was going to take called "Art, Heart and Healing. It is so deep. On one side of the page we had to write positive thoughts about ourselves whether we feel them or not. Then we were to gesso, paint or college over them and do a background. This was a way of letting go of the negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts. On the right side of the page, we were to draw a frontal picture of ourselves if we wanted to. There is no way I can do a portrait of myself. I'm just learning and has a long way to go. There is a lot more or corrections to this portrait I could have done but I felt the need to stop because I was scared of messing it up more. That is also one of the healing points I have learned in art journaling-to not be afraid of messing up. I have a lot of practice to do but I am determined. I collaged the left side of the page and used water soluable color crayons on the face of my portrait. We are so many colors of beautiful that I am having a hard time coming up with what I like. Oh well, just wanted to share and I'm back to the drawing board. Have a nice week everyone.

Hugs,