There is a strong connection between maintaining a creative edge and feeling good about yourself. With a small bend and stretch of your attitude, from there you can consider the fact that one way to feel better, is to simply become more connected with the art world, even temporarily.
So, for five ways to use art to promote wellness in the modern world, consider the following categories and techniques – look for inspiring YouTube pages to ponder over, install some photography apps on your phone and experiment, buy artistic tools to use for your own sake, hit up a local art museum, or draw with a child.
Look For Inspiring YouTube Pages
When you are searching for ideas about art in order to feel better, sometimes is best to just look for inspiring introductory videos for art companies, like the YouTube channel for Park West Gallery, for instance. From that central point, you can visit all sorts of different legs of the artistic journey, and you’ll find it very calming that everything is organized rationally to give you a journey into the art world as deep as you’d like to go on a whim.
Install Photography Apps
Another thing to do to feel better and more creative right away is to install a photography app on your phone. Some of the new ones allow you to turn your everyday photos into pretty amazing pieces of art, and you can easily share them either through social media outlets or directly to your friends. Every day new ones are popping up as well, to contribute to the cultural value of what any person can accomplish.
Buy Artistic Tools To Use
Another great self-therapy for being feeling like they aren’t at their best is to buy some art tools like pens, pencils, paints, watercolors, etc., and get some white paper and just go to town. The feel of tools on paper is extremely relaxing, and it’s a great way to promote wellness either individually or in group sessions.
Head To an Art Museum
Art museums are places of peace and quiet and well, so people who want to heal themselves one way or another can go to these galleries and simply walk around and absorb the creativity and good vibes around them. Again, either alone or with groups, this is a great way to feel better.
Draw With a Child
Finally, to sit down and draw with a child, perhaps one in your family, is a great artistic self-therapy. Kids don’t have the same mental restrictions as adults do, and aren’t afraid to be judged. To use that to calm your own mind, especially when drawing, is a great benefit.
Originally posted on November 21, 2015 @ 1:51 pm