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    Winding Down: Neurographic Shapes

    / September 22, 2024

    It’s relaxing and colorful no-pressure fun this week on BETTER WITH ART.

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    Watercolor Relaxation for a Tired Brain, because We are BETTER WITH ART

    / September 22, 2024

    This week was hard on my brain. Take time to relax your brain and practice creative self-care with this simple no-pressure watercolor relaxation with me.

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    Deceptively Easy Night-Sky Paint Play

    / September 8, 2024

    This week with some simple supplies I'm revisiting a deeply-colored bit of relaxation with a deceptively easy technique.

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    Therapeutic watercolor blobs and relaxing lines

    / September 8, 2024

    There's just something about circles! Take a creative self-care art break with me.

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    Simple Art for Mental Health

    / September 8, 2024

    Get out some markers and a pen, and enjoy some creative self-care art-making with me!

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    Finding Calm: Take an Art Break with Me

    / August 18, 2024

    I NEED a creative self-care art break. How about you? I have my art journal and a Sharpie for some neurographic-line-making. JOIN ME!

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    This Week’s Art Break: Using Positive & Negative Space to Give Shape to Our Color

    / August 11, 2024

    This week we’re playing with the color we basked in last week. If you missed it, you can catch up here. This week’s art didn’t go according to plan. Ironically, I wanted to…

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    Color Play for Creative Self-Care

    / August 10, 2024

    This week we're playing with color for the pure pleasure of it. It's incredibly therapeutic to just full an entire page with color.

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

    / July 28, 2024

    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…

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    Creative Self-Care: Do It for the Process

    / July 28, 2024

    This week we’re relaxing with a new-for-me type of line-making. Take time to make art. It's not a waste of time.

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