Intuitive Drawings Can Reveal Emotions
So much has happened this year and we're only just into March. I've been looking back at my daily sketchbook paintings and in retrospect I can see how my emotions are reflected in the pictures.These are all drawn and painted intuitively so at the time of making I had no conscious thoughts about what I was going to draw.
I'll write underneath each picture my feelings today of how I see them. Starting at the beginning of the year, just after christmas and my birthday...
had a great time with family
still basking in the love
tired
reclusive
very sad and worried
heavily worried
numb
worried
trying to feel as though everything's ok
burden of worry
buying new house plants
delicate
tasks out of reach and difficult
feeling floaty, free
everything beginning to grow in the garden
calm and accepting
organising
Feeling physically weak
mindless bunny drawing to avoid the very difficult day.
Thanks for scrolling down this far! It's been a difficult year but things are looking better as I write this. It's been an interesting exercise for me to look through these drawings and to see how much the paintings reflect what's going on for me emotionally in my life. The colours are chosen intuitively too and I love to use beautiful colours, especially when I'm feeling down. I find them uplifting.
Have a lovely day and I'll see you in the next blogpost! xx
Comments
Love all these gorgeous colorful pages and hope by now life is good and all is well. That photo at the bottom has to be taken from Beacon Cove, Torquay, correct? My beach in teen days soooo long along!
Are you still in Brixham across the bay?
Hope you will post more often - your art is so uplifting.
Hugs - Mary (in North Carolina)
Thats such a great idea to document how you were feeling when painting/drawing...like a diary to look back on.
Sometimes when I feel bleak/anxious/worried/on a low eb...My way of coping is to get my mind stuck into art or go for a lovely walk around devon or Cornwall. My dads on going cancer treatments have been hard for all of us.Every time the phone rings my heart skips a beat...the guilt being so far away especially. My mind is often like a bird in a cage going round and round without an escape route.
Channeling that inner worry to art is a great way to de-stress.
I find other's art so inspiring~ like yourself you lift my spirits with such beauty and colour.
I have so many projects on the go at the moment. Ive been doing two commissions through FB for birthdays and toppers for cakes for the same client.
The other is a Frida for a friends birthday...but also ive started junk journals for my etsy shop. I also need to at some point when i get some free time get to the city and get some art printed up.
Lovely to see you back in blog land, I so much more prefer blogs and instagram...
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