Creative Self-Care with Painty Butterflies

Welcome to BETTER WITH ART and another simple, relaxing, quick-but-take-as-long-as-you’d-like art-making session! Let’s have some art fun and consider just how amazing butterflies are. And how they show us it’s okay to let go and enter into the discomfort of change. And live all our nexts in full color.

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.

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