Melinda VanRy Art & Design

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.

Let's use watercolors to embrace imperfection in our art. And in ourselves.

I love this surprisingly beneficial abstract-print & tracing activity! BETTER WITH ART: simple art with inexpensive & easily accessible materials. Join me!

Simple, colorful, fun, therapeutic. Join me for no-pressure art for creative self-care as I also test a new art journal.

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.