Better With Art

Art-Making for Mental Health: Because We’re Not One-Dimensional

Welcome to BETTER WITH ART. I’m Melinda and I’m here to encourage you to reclaim your creativity and practice creative self-care with weekly small-art prompts that can be done in an art journal or on paper if you don’t have one. Grab a Sharpie or other water-resistant marker or pen, a white crayon, and watercolor paint for some simple creative self-care. We’re not one-dimensional and our approach to health shouldn’t be either. Taking time for art is not a waste of time.

If you’d like an art journal to get started with my simple form of art journaling, click here for my top value-for-the-money recommendation. I use it in my prompt videos, and for the art journaling groups at the library where I work. I LOVE the paper. It works well with the dry, wet, and layered applications I use it for. If searching for something different remember the paper needs to be heavyweight and preferably hot-press because although I love the texture of cold-press it’s really hard on markers and pens. This one is 140lb/300gsm.

Click here for this week’s inexpensive water-resistant fine-tip marker pen.

And here’s the link to the basic eight Crayola watercolors.

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Click here to sign up for info on my upcoming Seeking Solace Translucent Layers Collage Workshop.

If you’re interested in learning about art journaling as Christian worship click here.

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