We hope you have a wonderful time creating!

I’m so glad, Karolin!

HI Lisa:

I’m thrilled this speaks to you. The messy backgrounds are so much fun and leave so much room for what you can create with them. Working in stages this way has brought me a lot of art, and a lot of fun! Let me know if I can point you in any other directions. If you aren’t already, you can take my free art journaling and creativity class here: The Guide to Creative Self-Care.

XO Amy

HI Andrea:

I’m so glad I’ve caught your interest with this idea. think I mean give yourself permission to create without expectation. Like children do. See how this is for you. You may like it or not, it’s about discovering what works for you personally.
XO Amy

I suffer of Cptsd since long time ago and casually a pair of years ago I found myself in front a clean sheet of paper ….
Since I was a child I have always loved drawing …
However, the point is that I begun drawing anything I was in mind: objects, animals, geometries, and so on…
I realized a sense of well being, dued to the fact that the creativity process itself tends to take the mind out of the present time and space, and it is very helpful in the case your present is full of problems or you are severely afflicted .
However, it can happen that you begin to challenge yourself in realizing an always better draw of a same item … Example ?
I mean you draw a bird and than you say: oh it is not well made, it is ugly, I have to do it better !
So you restart drawing the same item trying to do it better, and still on, much better again .
Here it is that you want to demonstrate yourself that you are good in realize something, and concerning myself, at least, may be I am a bit perfectionist, however I can say that the therapeutical power of the art decreases rapidly to the absolute zero, or worst you begin to get frustrated by your work .
Can you understand the paradox meaning of my words ?
May be I am resulting a bit ” touched ” or weird, I don’ t know.
By reflecting on the strange concept you propose, ” drawing like a baby ” …
Well, I realize that It is not a so paradoxal concept, because in having the courage to abandon any acquired rules in the act of drawing that we tend to follow, and let the hand free to produce all the caos the mind also may have inside, at the and, it can give a more sense of pure freedom, a greater sense of liberation than the adult and structured way of drawing.
I give you my excuses for the long text, I am trying to undetstand if I centered the sense of ” drawing like a baby ” that seems to me it is a great sense of liberation, so much more therapeutical power for those like me who make art to relief from pain.
Did I understand, or misunderstood everything ?
Has ” the drawing like a baby ” technique a greater relief power than the ordinary drawing, by breaking with any schemes ?

My apologies for my English that’ s actually out of order, hope I will result quite understandable …

Ciao ciao .

HI Dorlee:

That sounds great. Doing art with my kids has always been one of my favorite activities. Let me know how it goes!

Cheers,

Amy