The Mindful Art Studio

(Note: five/27/15: I have changed my site name to www.mindfulartstudio.com in club to split up my art therapy practice from my online art business concern and to avoid whatever defoliation almost what services I am providing. Mindful Art Studio and its web log volition at present focus solely on inventiveness, fine art tutorials, fine art journaling, mindfulness, and related topics. It is not fine art therapy.)

Hello Creative, Authentic You:

I've been holding onto a undercover for the last few months, and I'one thousand so excited to finally be able to share information technology: I've institute a new dwelling house for our lovely customs. Welcome to the Mindful Art Therapy Studio! To utilize a term from one of my favorite creative authors, SARK, I hope you lot'll stay a while and have an "inspiration sandwich" while you're hither!

I sought out a new name because I want it to exist very articulate what this community stands for – learning to live centered, inspired, and creative lives. I think Mindful Fine art Therapy Studio does that. Do you?

Mindfulness and Fine art

Through writing this blog, I've realized just how hungry people are for inventiveness and mindfulness in their lives. Nosotros want to slow down, pay attention, make meaning, and experience inspired.  Whether you consider yourself "creative" or non, and I would debate that anybody is, if you don't have that spark of inspiration and inventiveness somewhere in your life, my bet is that you are feeling apartment, down, anxious, or solitary. I believe very strongly that for many people, fine art therapy and art are ii very powerful medicines.

I was rereading one of the books that collection me to explore the mindful, spiritual, and healing aspects of art, The Creative person'southward Style. Writer Julia Cameron says, "The quality of life is in proportion, e'er, to the chapters for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention." It'due south so true.

So much of what delights me requires my full attention – listening to my kids as they recount each new adventure, taking in the way water droplets perch gently on a tulip petal, choosing the right moment to brand a suggestion to a customer who is on the brink of change, or running unencumbered on the showtime warm spring twenty-four hour period, hearing the birds, and feeling the motility of my breath.

That's the level of connection nosotros require. And all the same nosotros make ourselves and so busy all the time. Mindfulness requires conscious endeavor.

A Mindfulness Exercise:

Art and mindfulness are so intimately connected. Seeing with attending is practicing mindfulness. Whether you are truly seeing and drawing something for the beginning time, or "seeing" your feelings appear on the page, it's an act of mindfulness. I retrieve often of my first cartoon teacher, who told me that I didn't need to learn to draw, I needed to acquire to see.

Attempt this exercise:

Pick an object that you see everyday – a chair, a stick, a bowl. Set a timer for 2 minutes. Now wait at the object as though y'all have no idea what it is – like you've never seen one of those thingies in your life. I invite you to appoint your curiosity. Await at colors, shapes, textures, and light. What do you notice? What were you missing every other time you lot looked at information technology?

What we unremarkably see when nosotros await at something is only a brief sketch. We think we know what things look like, but do nosotros really?

A Mindful Drawing Exercise:

Could you try cartoon your object now? Let get of expectations that it volition await a certain way or be "accurate," this is a mindfulness do. Your pencil is a miniature ant walking across the edges and contours of your object, e'er then slowly. What does your ant go? Whenever I practise this, I find so much more than detail and dazzler both in the object, and in my wobbly cartoon, than I ever expected.

"Attending is an act of connectedness"  – Julia Cameron

We so deeply want to feel connected, and it's is a powerful chestnut confronting hopelessness, desperation, and suffering.

What Y'all Can Expect from Mindful Art Studio

Having the opportunity to share creative self-care techniques and information with people across the globe is a blessing for me. It's part of my artistic and artistic practice, and information technology makes my life meaningful. Thank you for beingness here!

My goal is to achieve y'all, move you, and inspire you to live a more artistic life, to feel happier and less anxious, and to brand choices demonstrate how much you truly value yourself. You have so much to offer.

I want y'all to evidence upward in this customs, take in what you can, and give back by sharing your insights (just like Sara did terminal calendar week.) Let's take on this creative journey called life together.

I am humbled by your presence, your wisdom, and your creativity, and I'g excited about what's ahead in the rest of 2015.

Art Tutorials and Classes

Fine art journaling has been, and volition continue to exist one of the key ways that I help people feed their creative soul. You can also expect more online art classes and eastward-books on a range of artistic techniques.

Creative Self-Care and Coping Strategies for Anxiety and Depression

Fear gets in the way of creativity and joy. We volition go along to dive deeper into means of getting fear and anxiety to pace aside, go away, or transform. We will also continue to explore a range of coping tools to manage anxiety, stress, and depression.

This quote speaks so loudly to me about the habit of worry. And like any other habit, nosotros can replace information technology with a different one with a bigger reward.

Insights Almost Healing Art

I consider it a privilege to be an art therapist and to help more people understand and experience its power.

If you lot haven't looked effectually recently, here's a sampling of some of the best things Mindful Art Therapy Studio has to offering right now:

– Bank check out the Free Art Tutorials page for tons of mindful, creative, and nature based fine art techniques

-Heed to some guided visualizations to help relieve stress and anxiety

– Learn almost managing stress and anxiety with art,

– Connect with the community on the Creative Self-Intendance Facebook group for actress guidance and resources

– Mind to the podcast where I talk about How Fine art Therapy Works.

Mindful Art Studio's Housewarming Gifts to You

To help celebrate our new "domicile," I'd like to offer you lot some housewarming gifts.

1. GIVEAWAY:

Each person who comments below has a chance to win this art journal. In one case I know who the lucky, randomly called winner is, I'll get a scrap more information and personalize it for you before I send it off. Yous have until Friday at 9 am to comment.

ii. Fine art Journaling Class Sale!

For a limited time, I am making Art Journaling 101 Online available for just $19!

Call up Annotate to Win Your Art Journal!

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