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Color & Pattern Play: Be Uniquely You
This week’s simple art is relaxing exploration of shape and design and color, joyful expression of our own personal styles, and celebration of our unique selves.
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Watercolor Flow & Self-Compassion
Let's use watercolors to embrace imperfection in our art. And in ourselves.
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Abstract Print & Flow: How Art Helps Our Health
I love this surprisingly beneficial abstract-print & tracing activity! BETTER WITH ART: simple art with inexpensive & easily accessible materials. Join me!
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Creative Self-Care FUN with a Little Personality + NEW ART JOURNAL TEST
Simple, colorful, fun, therapeutic. Join me for no-pressure art for creative self-care as I also test a new art journal.
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Simple Art/Big Impact: Creative Self-Care for Mental Health
This week I’m testing another new journal option with Sharpie and pen for some neurographic-style doodle goodness. Welcome to BETTER WITH ART. I’m Melinda and I’m here to encourage you to reclaim your…
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Exploring Texture & Depth with Simple Watercolor
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 the privacy of…
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Untangle your mind with watercolor tangles
It’s impossible-to-get-wrong colorful fun this week on BETTER WITH ART! Grab your watercolors and join me and Nora for this week’s creative self-care art-making.
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You deserve, no, you NEED an art break today!
For YEARS I thought there were too many more important things to do to take time to regularly make art. I was wrong. Creativity is important to mental health. Make art with me.
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Stressed? Overwhelmed? Make this simple healing art.
Revisiting my simple form of neurographic art this week. Relaxing. Mind-calming. Therapeutic. Healing. If you're looking for a break, you've come to the right place.
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Finding balance in bilateral drawing
What is bilateral drawing and how does it help our brains? Grab your art journal or a piece of paper, and two writing implements, and join me to find out.