Friday, October 1, 2010

Art Relieves Stress

Stress reduction by creativity must be done without any expectations of what should be on the paper. Start with a blank sheet of paper and a writing instrument. Make large swirling or zigzag movement all over the page for about 5-10 seconds. You will be left with a bunch of random shapes. Now you have something to color in- use anything and start coloring. Try anything- solid, striped, polka dots, wavy lines, scribbling, try putting the paper on a textured surface and color over that. If you have some handy- try different colors. If not, stick to trying a variety of coloring methods in each random shape.