mfh Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 About 3 months after Bill died a friend invited me to go up north where she was teaching a writing class for a week at a UW program. We rented a cabin on the river and I signed up for a watercolor class and have since experienced watercolor as a healing tool that is sometimes just a distraction, other times an expression of various feelings from despair to hope, from sorrow to joy. I came across this site today and it contains various ideas on the use of art to heal. I pass it on to you in hopes it might be helpful to someone. http://www.expressiveartworkshops.com/expressive-artists/100-art-therapy-exercises/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Here is a link to a series of Pinterest boards all on Art Therapy....many ideas for healing with art: Kassie Danielle Art Therapy, http://www.pinterest.com/kassieds/art-therapy/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 I have been doing Art Therapy for several months now only I call it art healing. It brings me calm and also I am finding that it requires focus or what I sometimes call mindfulness. Anne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted February 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 I like what you are doing, Anne...yes, calming, creative, and takes patience and awareness. They are also beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Today my art piece took concentration. The colors just come but there is always a sense of peace as I finish one. Click on save to see a smaller picture - it looks better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 My music and pencil/marker art keep me centered. I do other things but this passtime helps me in my healing. The picture looks better when you click on save because you see the full picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyT Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Beautiful, Anne ~ truly a reflection of YOU. ♥ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 This is titled: "Home is Where the heart Is" by IIana Yahav. It's my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 INcredible and I love the pup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 a flower - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 For my friends who love roses. Happy Spring, almost. Click on the link for real art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted March 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Anne, here is one for you....and everyone else http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYclqLKs_k#aid=P5k5ZFrfjGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 At Last A Prayer in Spring Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees. And make us happy in the darting bird That suddenly above the bees is heard, The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, And off a blossom in mid air stands still. For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil. Robert Frost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted March 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Spring happened at 10:57 a.m. in Spring Green, WI...the sun is out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyT Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Is there anything more beautiful and full of hope?! ♥ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 My welcome to spring ~ I share it with all of you. click on save to see the whole picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyT Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Just lovely, dear Anne ~ and this is one of my very favorite lines from one of my very favorite poets, e. e. cummings! Perfect. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Thank you, Marty, for taking a peak at my 'therapy' art pass time. There is nothing more soothing than to listen to music and color ~ at any age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted April 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Anne, of course e.e. cummings is one of my favorites (Bill's also). Your zencoloring is meditation, you know...and it is lovely, uplifting and full of spring. Here is another favorite that was read at Bill's funeral: “i thank You God for most this amazing” by e.e. cummings i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any–lifted from the no of all nothing–human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) e.e. cummings 1894-1962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 I am and have been a lover of e.e.cummings poetry. Thank you, Mary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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enna Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 My basket of flowers. . . "Arranging a basket of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day ~ like writing a poem or saying a prayer." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and LISTEN. ~ Anne Lamott click on SAVE for a better picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralfae Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Oh, Dear Anne, That is a beautiful basket of flowers! I am smiling, and my heart is delighting in joy to see your bountiful basket of flowers. It floods my heart with memories of picking flowers and making arrangements at the ranch, and filling the house with their fragrance. How very beautiful to see the generous celebration of Spring gathered into your basket and share with us all. Thank you for your art and for all the beauty you bring to this healing place. Much Love, fae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Thank you, fae. Your words are appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifflesnook Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 I did that tonight. I appreciated the Spring. I went into the garden alone (apart from Kelbi) and looked at the geraniums with the bees flying in and out. And just blessed them. I wish I had artistic talent but I don't. I can't write poetry either. But I can appreciate both. Thanks Anne. That is lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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