Expressing feelings through art

From an art therapy website - Each person creates art to represent the corresponding emotion on the wheel - using colors, abstraction, or representationally. The more we make space for emotions, the more freedom we have to dance with them, rather than feeling overwhelmed by them.

When You Can’t Draw Your Feelings Hello friends, today, I'll show you what you can do if you’re feeling stuck with trying to express your feelings through art. You might have tried to do this exercise I shared previously, where I showed you how to draw or paint your emotions on paper. I know so

Alice Farion, a young French artist, describes how drawing and art helps her express her emotions. She describes through her drawing alienation, loneliness, bullying, masking, and more.

American Artist Douglas Smith studied Sculpture, Painting and Printmaking, but his main love was for Illustrations and telling a story. Below and above are examples of his Drawings, Illustrations made with the use of the Scratchboard medium. Scratchboard is defined by Wikipedia as "Sharp knives and tools that are used for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink". For the coloured ones, more layers of clay in different colours are laid, so that the…

Exploring the feeling of being trapped through this line sketch. Each contour represents the complexities of emotion and confinement. Art has a way of expressing what words sometimes can't. What do you see? #Art #Sketch . . . . . #painting #drawing #illustration #sketch #InstaArt #ArtOfTheDay #inkdrawing #ink#artwork #inkart #inksketch #paintingink

Figurative artist Leah Kelly works with oils, acrylics and charcoal to merge portraiture and surrealism. An unusual combination of faces and bodies in a representational art style is used to express emotions and experiences common within the female experiences. Women’s suffering, power, and emotions are expressed- translated through original ideas and compositions, or retellings of iconic imagery.

It’s not just that we lack answers. We don’t even agree on the questions.

Today is one of these days when I feel my brain is a mess! It's annoying!

Post the lyrics of a song and let other Pandas guess which song you had in mind. Are they correct, or are they wrong?

Help your teenager express their emotions using art! Art therapy activities for teens is an easy way to help your teens work through hard feelings and express themselves. We’ve got 25 ideas to get your teens drawing, painting, sculpting and more. Perfect for homeschool art classes.