How to draw or paint your emotions

How to draw or paint your emotions

How to to draw and to paint his emotions ?

In this article, you will discover a short guide, step by step, to help you express your feelings through art.

These exercises of personal development through artistic creation are based on the principles ofart therapy.
Easy, accessible and adapted for beginners, they will help you express yourself and use art as an outlet for your emotions.

First, arrange your space so that you feel calm and relaxed. Make sure you are in a place where you will not be disturbed.

The supplies you need are:

• Sketchbook or paper
• Drawing materials of your choice (gray or colored pencils, markers, pastels, gel pens, etc.)
• watercolor painting
• Gouache
• 300gsm watercolor paper
• Paint brushes
• water cup
• Cloth

Start mindfully

Before you start creating, invite the mindfulness In you.

Login to yourself, close your eyes, breathe deeply and become aware of how you feel.

Can you identify an emotion ?
For example: calm, stress, anxiety, relaxation, anxiety, anger, joy, sadness, calm, lost…

How is it does it feel in your body ?
For example: tense / relaxed muscles, clenched jaw, muscle pain, slow / rapid breathing, chills, tremors, hot / cold…

Accept their feelings without judgement nor resistance. Just be aware.

artistic creation

Now that you are fully aware of your emotions, you can move on to making art.

here are the 3 steps Creation :

1. Stay in touch with how you feel. What is your emotion? Your feelings?
   
2. Close your eyes and ask yourself if this feeling had a color, a shape, a weight, a temperature, a texture,… What would it look like?
   
3. Represent it on paper, using colors, shapes and lines.

You don’t always have to know what the feeling is like or visualize it. All you have to do is be ready to work with this one.

Go with your instinct and your intuition.

Ask him, what color suits this feeling? What form ? Or what cut ? etc…
Don’t think and let the answer appear.

The benefits of practice

We all have some experience with art, but we rarely use it as a way to really express our feelings. So it can be difficult to do this at first.

As a general rule, we tend to overuse our thinking mind (mind).
But when we give it up and use our intuition (the small inner voice), we can access these feelings, express them and externalize them more easily on paper.

We speak because we have need to exteriorize our thoughts, our emotions. But also because we need to be heard, validated, listened to by others. It’s just human.

To draw Where to paint his emotions allow speak out other than through language.
This reminds me of the expression: “Words fail me”, used in certain situations, when the emotion is too strong. Indeed, sometimes words have or are a limit.

It is sometimes difficult to identify and externalize our feelings. Artistic creation is therefore an excellent tool of introspection and expression to achieve this.

Through artistic practice, you can to listenyou To hear, to feel and visualize your feelings.

This activity is very rewarding because it allows you to empathize with yourself.

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thoughtful writing

After art creation, you can use writing as another creative way to explore the emotions you have drawn or painted.

Take a pen and a notebook, then write down the answers to these questions:

• What does the drawing look like? Does it remind you of something: an object, a memory, an animal…
• Describe the drawing as if you were the drawing. For example, you might say, “I’m a drawing with lots of different shapes, I feel confused and scattered, I need more organization or calm…”
• What did you learn from this? Whether it’s about yourself or your relationship to that emotion

To conclude

Art is an expression unique to human consciousness

Aristotle

Being able to express oneself through artistic practice is a real gift for human beings!

Therefore, dare to express yourself with colours, pencils, brushes, pictures or through any form of art.
Indeed, dancing, singing, theater for example, are also fantastic tools to externalize your emotions.

In conclusion, I hope that this little guide will be useful to you and will help you to express yourself and externalize your emotions through artistic creation. I invite you to share your feedback and your experience in the comments 🙂

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