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Art therapy


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When you're tired, draw flowers. Drawing flowers helps reenergize your mind and clear brain fog.

When you're angry, draw lines. Curved lines, straight lines, whatever lines you like.

When you're in pain, build a model or do a puzzle to help distract your mind.

When you're bored, try coloring.

When you're sad, paint a rainbow.

When you're scared, knit something to make you feel secure.

If you're worried, make a doll.

If you're feeling indignant, tear up pieces of paper and arrange them into patterns.

If you're anxious, try folding some origami.

When you're tense, draw patterns.

If you're feeling nostalgic, draw a maze.

When you're disappointed, copy a portrait or painting.

If you're confused, draw a mandala.

If you're feeling despair, draw your way out of it.

If you need strength, paint a beautiful landscape.

If you can't feel your feelings, draw a self portrait.

If you need to remember this moment, draw colored patterns.

If your mind is a mess, draw squares or honeycombs.

If you need to make a good choice, draw waves and circles.

If you're in a rut, draw some spirals.

When you need to reach a goal, draw a target.

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Collage your vision of a perfect day.Think about what constitutes a perfect day to you and collage it. What about this collage can you make happen today?

Take photographs of things you think are beautiful. No one else has to like them but you. Print and frame them to have constant reminders of the beautiful things in life.

Make a collage related to a quote you like. Take the words of wisdom from someone else and turn them into something visually inspiring.

Create a drawing that represents freedom. The Surrealists embraced automatic drawing as way to incorporate randomness and the subconscious into their drawings, and to free themselves from artistic conventions and everyday thinking.

Document a spiritual experience. Have you ever had a spiritual experience in your life? Paint what it felt like intuitively.

Make a stuffed animal. Soft, cuddly objects can be very comforting. Use this project to create an animal from your intuitive drawings.

Work on a softness project. Using only soft or comforting objects, create a work of art.

Build a "home." What does home mean to you? This activity will have you create a safe, warm place that feels like home to you.

Document an experience where you did something you didn't think you could do. We all have to do things that we're scared or unsure of sometimes. Use this activity as a chance to commemorate one instance in your life.

Think up a wild invention. This invention should do something that can help make you happier– no matter what that is.

Make a prayer flag. Send your prayers for yourself or those around you out into the universe with this project.

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Draw or paint your emotions. In this exercise, you'll focus entirely on painting what you're feeling.

Create an emotion wheel. Using color, this activity will have you thinking critically about your emotions.

Make a meditative painting. Looking for a creative way to relax?  Have trouble sitting still to meditate?  Meditative painting might be just the thing you're looking for.  No painting skill or experience necessary - only a desire to relax and become more creative.

Put together a journal. Journals don't have to just be based around words. You can make an art journal as well, that lets you visually express your emotions.

Explore puppet therapy. Puppets aren't just for kids. Make your own and have them act out scenes that make you upset.

Use line art. Line is one of the simplest and most basic aspects of art, but it can also contain a lot of emotion. Use simple line art to demonstrate visually how you're feeling.

Design a postcard you will never send. Are you still angry or upset with someone in your life? Create a postcard that expresses this, though you don't have to ever send it.

Create a family sculpture. For this activity, you makes a clay representation of each family member-- mother, father, siblings, and any other close or influential family members to explore emotional dynamics and roles within your family.

Paint a mountain and a valley. The mountain can represent a time where you were happy, the valley, when you were sad. Add elements that reflect specific events as well.

Attach a drawing or message to a balloon. Send away negative emotions or spread positive ones by attaching a note or drawing to a balloon and setting it free.

Collage a heart. Collage your childhood memories in a heart formation.

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Paint to music. Letting your creativity flow in response to music is a great way to let out feelings and just relax.

Make a scribble drawing. With this activity, you'll turn a simple scribble into something beautiful, using line, color and your creativity.

Finger paint. Finger painting isn't just fun for kids– adults can enjoy it as well. Get your hands messy and really have fun spreading paint around.

Make a mandala. Whether you use the traditional sand or draw one on your own, this meditative symbol can easily help you to loosen up.

Draw with your eyes closed. Not being able to see what you are drawing intensifies fluidity, intuition, touch and sensitivity.

Draw something HUGE. Getting your body involved and moving around can help release emotion as you're drawing.

Use color blocks. Colors often come with a lot of emotions attached. Choose several paint chips to work with and collage, paint and glue until you've created a colorful masterpiece.

Let yourself be free. Don't allow yourself to judge your work. If you think your paintings are too tight and controlled, this collection of tips and techniques to try should help you work in a looser style. 

Only use colors that calm you. Create a drawing or a painting using only colors that you find calming.

Draw in sand. Like a Zen garden, this activity will have you drawing shapes and scenes in the sand, which can be immensely relaxing and a great way to clear your mind.

Make a zentangle. These fun little drawings are a great tool for letting go and helping reduce stress.

Color in a design. Sometimes, the simple act of coloring can be a great way to relax. Find a coloring book or use this mandala for coloring.

Draw outside. Working en plein air can be a fun way to relax and get in touch with nature while you're working on art

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I am drawing a guy snoring incessantly after seeing this thread

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Create a past, present and future self-portrait. This drawing or painting should reflect where you have been, who you are today, and how see yourself in the future.

Draw a bag self-portrait. On the outside of a paper bag, you'll create a self-portrait. On the inside, you'll fill it with things that represent who you are.

Choose the people who matter most to you in life and create unique art for each. This is a great way to acknowledge what really matters to you and express your gratitude.

Collage someone you admire. If someone has ever helped inspire your path, collage this person.

Create an expressive self-portrait. Paint in expressive colors. Select colors for emotional impact.

Draw yourself as a warrior. Start thinking about yourself as a strong, capable person by drawing yourself as a warrior in this activity.

Create a transformational portrait series. Transform your perceptions about yourself with this list of self-portrait ideas.

Imitate Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Using objects that have meaning to you, create a portrait of yourself.

Create a body image sketch. Practice life drawing to fall in love with all of the varieties of the human body, including your own.

Draw a mirror. This activity is based around a Piet Mondrian quote: "The purer the artist's mirror is, the more true reality reflects in it." It involves letting die what is not your true reflection, is getting back a truer reflection of yourself in your mirror. 

Draw yourself as a superhero. Many people like superhero stories. We resonate with the themes in the stories, with the dilemmas and problems that superheroes face, and we aspire to their noble impulses and heroic acts.

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Create a motivational collage. You can hang this collage somewhere you'll see it everyday. Filled with images you find motivating, it'll help you keep pushing on.

Create a face collage on a mask. We all wear masks of some sort. This project lets you showcase what's in your mask and the face you put on for the world.

Create a clutter collage. Are there things cluttering up your life? In this project, use words and pictures to show the clutter in your way.

Create a calming collage. Choose images that you find soothing, calming or even meditative and combine them to create an attractive collage that can help you to relax.

Collage a painting. To complete this exercise, you'll first need to create a simple, abstract painting on paper. Then, tear this painting up and create another. Think about how you felt when you had to tear up the first painting and which you like more

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Create a blot art. Like a classic Rorschach test, fold paper in half with paint or ink in the middle and describe what you see.

Mind Mapping. Make a visual representation of your thoughts to figure out how your mind works.

Make a dreamcatcher. Having bad dreams? Create this age-old tool for catching your dreams with a few simple tools.

Draw your dreams. You can learn a lot from what goes on in your dreams, so keep a dream journal and use it for inspiration to draw or paint.

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Draw images of your good traits. Creating drawings of your good traits will help you to become more positive and build a better self-image.

Draw yourself as an animal. Is there an animal that you have a special interest in or feel like is a kindred spirit? Draw yourself as that animal.

Create a timeline and journal the most significant moments in your life.This timeline will be the story of your life, with the most important moments highlighted visually.

Put together a jungle animal collage. Choose jungle animals that you find the most interesting, draw them, and then reflect on why you've chosen these specific animals.

Sculpt your ideal self. If you could make yourself into the perfect person, what would you look like? Draw the different sides of yourself. In this project, you'll explore the different aspects of your personality, giving each a visual representation. You might only have one or two, or maybe even twelve.

Make art with your fingerprints. Your fingerprints are as unique as you are. Use ink and paint to make art that uses your fingerprints.

Draw yourself as a tree.Your roots will be loaded with descriptions of things that give you strength and your good qualities, while your leaves can be the things that you're trying to change.

Design a fragments box. In this project, you'll put fragments of yourself into a box, helping construct a whole and happier you.

Paint an important childhood memory. What was a pivotal memory in your childhood? This activity asks you to document it and try to understand why it was so important to you.

Write and illustrate a fairy tale about yourself. If you could put yourself into a happily ever after situation, what role would you play and how would the story go?

Create a book that tells the tale. Design a visual autobiography. This creative journaling project asks you to look back at your life and make a visual representation of it.

Create your own coat of arms. Choose symbols that represent your strengths to build your own special coat of arms.

Draw a comic strip about a funny moment in your life. Enjoy a moment of levity with this exercise that will focus in on a comical even that happened to you.

Build your own website. Websites are very versatile ways to express yourself. Build your own to express what's most important about you.

Create a box of values. First, collage or paint a box the represents you. Then, place items inside the box that represent the things you value the most.

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too bad all you mofos suck at drawing :3

my type of therapy- go ride some rollercoasters, listen to guetta, go clubbing, go skateboard, go cracra

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