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  • Better With Art
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    • #My100CollagePapers
    • Mixed Media Fun!
  • What is Art Journaling?
  • Better With Art

    Color & Pattern Play: Be Uniquely You

    / April 13, 2025

    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

    / April 6, 2025

    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

    / March 30, 2025

    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

    / March 23, 2025

    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

    / March 16, 2025

    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

    / March 9, 2025

    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

    / March 2, 2025

    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!

    / February 23, 2025

    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.

    / February 16, 2025

    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

    / February 9, 2025

    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.

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