The Mindful Art Studio

(Note: v/27/15: I have changed my site name to www.mindfulartstudio.com in order to split up my art therapy practice from my online art business and to avoid any confusion about what services I am providing. Mindful Fine art Studio and its blog will now focus solely on creativity, art tutorials, 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 and so excited to finally be able to share it: I've found a new home for our lovely community. Welcome to the Mindful Fine art Therapy Studio! To utilise a term from one of my favorite creative authors, SARK, I hope you'll stay a while and have an "inspiration sandwich" while you lot're here!

I sought out a new name because I want it to be very clear what this community stands for – learning to alive centered, inspired, and creative lives. I think Mindful Art Therapy Studio does that. Do y'all?

Mindfulness and Fine art

Through writing this weblog, I've realized just how hungry people are for creativity and mindfulness in their lives. We want to slow down, pay attention, make meaning, and feel inspired.  Whether you consider yourself "creative" or not, and I would argue that everyone is, if y'all don't have that spark of inspiration and creativity somewhere in your life, my bet is that yous are feeling flat, downward, broken-hearted, or alone. I believe very strongly that for many people, art therapy and art are two very powerful medicines.

I was rereading one of the books that collection me to explore the mindful, spiritual, and healing aspects of fine art, The Artist's Way. Author Julia Cameron says, "The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the chapters for delight. The capacity for please is the gift of paying attention." Information technology's so true.

And so much of what delights me requires my full attention – listening to my kids equally they recount each new adventure, taking in the manner water droplets perch gently on a tulip petal, choosing the right moment to make a suggestion to a client who is on the brink of change, or running unencumbered on the first warm spring day, hearing the birds, and feeling the movement of my breath.

That's the level of connection we crave. And yet we make ourselves and so busy all the time. Mindfulness requires conscious effort.

A Mindfulness Exercise:

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

Attempt this exercise:

Pick an object that you lot run into everyday – a chair, a stick, a bowl. Prepare a timer for ii minutes. At present look at the object as though y'all accept no thought what it is – like you've never seen one of those thingies in your life. I invite you to engage your marvel. Look at colors, shapes, textures, and light. What do yous notice? What were you lot missing every other time you lot looked at information technology?

What we normally run across when we expect at something is just a brief sketch. We think we know what things look like, but practice we really?

A Mindful Drawing Exercise:

Could you try drawing your object now? Allow become of expectations that it will wait a certain way or be "accurate," this is a mindfulness practice. Your pencil is a miniature ant walking across the edges and contours of your object, ever so slowly. What does your pismire get? Whenever I exercise this, I find so much more detail and beauty both in the object, and in my wobbly drawing, than I ever expected.

"Attention is an human action of connection"  – Julia Cameron

We so deeply want to feel continued, and it's is a powerful chestnut confronting hopelessness, agony, 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. Information technology'south role of my creative and artistic practice, and it makes my life meaningful. Thank you for being hither!

My goal is to reach you, move you, and inspire you to live a more than creative life, to feel happier and less anxious, and to make choices demonstrate how much you truly value yourself. You take and so much to offer.

I want you to show upward in this customs, have in what you tin, and requite back past sharing your insights (just like Sara did last week.) Let'due south take on this creative journey called life together.

I am humbled past your presence, your wisdom, and your creativity, and I'g excited about what'due south ahead in the residue of 2015.

Fine art Tutorials and Classes

Fine art journaling has been, and will continue to be one of the primal ways that I assist people feed their creative soul. Yous can also expect more online fine art classes and e-books on a range of artistic techniques.

Artistic Self-Care and Coping Strategies for Anxiety and Depression

Fear gets in the way of inventiveness and joy. We will continue to dive deeper into ways of getting fearfulness and feet to pace aside, go abroad, or transform. We will besides proceed to explore a range of coping tools to manage anxiety, stress, and depression.

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

Insights Nigh Healing Fine art

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

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

– Check out the Costless Art Tutorials folio for tons of mindful, artistic, and nature based art techniques

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

– Acquire about managing stress and anxiety with art,

– Connect with the community on the Creative Self-Care Facebook group for extra guidance and resources

– Mind to the podcast where I talk almost How Art Therapy Works.

Mindful Art Studio'due south Housewarming Gifts to Y'all

To help celebrate our new "abode," I'd like to offer y'all some housewarming gifts.

1. GIVEAWAY:

Each person who comments beneath has a chance to win this art periodical. Once I know who the lucky, randomly called winner is, I'll get a flake more information and personalize it for you before I send it off. You accept until Friday at 9 am to annotate.

2. Art Journaling Class Sale!

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

Remember Comment to Win Your Art Periodical!

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