Join me as I navigate the ups & downs of chronic illness & other life challenges through my daily creative practice. I openly share with sincerity & honesty about my own struggles, bringing my viewers along as I discover new ways to keep my creative practice alive even during my darkest & most uninspired days. This is not a channel where I tell you exactly what art materials to use or teach you step by step the "correct" way to make art. Instead I hope to instill in my viewers their own intuitive, expressive, art practice utilizing the principles of “Beginners mind”, "Non Judgement", "Self Acceptance" & most importantly, "Self Love". My videos are created for everyone that loves art, but especially for people like myself that are facing life challenges due to health issues, disability, trauma, grief or other difficulties that make life hard to navigate. Together we form a supportive online community through our creativity! Join Me on Patreon #ArtHeals #ArtStrong Links below 👇
Mixed Media. Such a relatable topic. I have my coffee table covered with art supplies and its drawers are also filled. I’ve surrounded myself with my supplies where I mainly rest on the couch so it takes the least amount of effort for me to be able to grab something and be creative in some way. Just playing with the colors is so calming for me.
I’m really glad you liked it. A lot of my bedridden viewers have put together what I call an “Art Nest”. I have a few videos on different versions of my own Art Nests over time. 🖍️📚💕
Matt medium tends to be thinner and Matt gel, medium thicker. You can paste down thicker pieces of collage material with the gel medium, but it’s a little more cumbersome to work with Hope that helps!
Wow! Just reading the comments here. I didn’t realize there were so many others in similar boats. Sending out so much love and virtual hugs to you all. 💕 We are not alone. 💕
I’m so glad I found you! I can relate to everything you are saying about chronic health issues and art and just showing up. I feel so understood and that means so much to me. Thank you 💕
Thanks so much for sharing that! I think we all feel that way when we find our community and people who can empathize with what we’re going through. Welcome to the community, you’re in good company here. 🙏💜🖍️📚
I just found this video and I can relate I have M.E so in bed most of the day and art is the only thing that makes me happy. So often I have to choose between showering or painting but painting lifts my mood 😊 every day is a compromise between what I can do and what I want to do.
Thank you so much for watching and sharing a bit about yourself. I want to assure you that so many people comment on this channel about choosing art over showering on bad days. I definitely do that too, showering takes an enormous amount of energy and sitting down painting, intuitively or abstractly in a sketchbook, definitely takes less energy. Just know that you are not alone in this community. 💕🙏🖍️📚🎨
I’m so happy I found you. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 27 years ago. My fatigue can knock me down. I am learning to draw and watercolor. This is like my medicine and therapy. Multiple Sclerosis is life changing and every year and day it can change in an instant. So sending big hugs your way
I’m really happy that you found your way here too! There are quite a few people with MS in this community. I love that you said your art is your therapy!! There is so much scientific evidence to back up its value on the mind and body. 🖍️📚💜
Trying to pack an art nest for a short trip away without the weight of all my bits plus paint and palettes....lightbulb moment when you used leftover gouache from paper.. perfect! Mixed media
Sometimes I feel you are describing me. I have Rheumatoid Athritis in my legs and arms. Every day is painful. Brain fog is my second name. I won't give in. I am making some mini journals full of flower and bird paintings and lots of collage fodder etc. It brings me so much joy to look at them after I sew them together. Just lots of A4 pages folded and put together just for me. Hope your fatigue goes soon. We can only live in hope.❤
I run a business and have ME/CFS. There are days the fatigue is so bad, all I can do is art. It is my savior! Thank you for showing up. I know what it takes on “those” days. But I have a question (I just found you and have not yet watched your other videos). What sketchbook are you working in? I heard you say Arteza or something?
Thank you so much for your empathy, understanding and supportive comment! It’s so nice to receive feedback like that. The sketchbook I was using in the video is an Arteza sketchbook. It comes in a set of two for around $25. A viewer purchased them for me off of my Amazon gift/wish list. They are inexpensive sketchbooks and the paper is not high-quality. The paper is very absorbent. I like them however because they are inexpensive and I don’t feel precious about using them. I mostly do experimental, primitive, playful work in this type of Sketchbook. There are others that I prefer for more refined work. I will post a link to the Arteza Sketchbooks here: amzn.to/3ZK1Lag
Mixed Media!!!!! As always super beautiful & creative video! I love how open you are with how you are feeling and infusing what you are experiencing into your art!! Always look forward to your videos Linda!!! You are a gem in my weekend!!
@@BeginnersMind-ArtMind thank you! So many of us suffer alone with a chronic illness or 2… and you completely validate all of us when you create and share! I haven’t had an ounce of bravery to do that on my channel… thank you for being you Linda!
@@BeginnersMind-ArtMind ohh I hear that so much when I watch other channels. Your tribe will always stick with you! We will always support each other! We artists are sensitive by nature and there is no need for anyone to place shame when they are sharing, teaching and being vulnerable with an audience. God will always have tender hearts like you rise to the top. Keep up the creativity, explore new mediums and play! - and might I say when you are completely improvising on camera with new techniques and new tools/mediums, I can see myself oooohing, and ahhhhing at the same time! Ha! You are in my prayers! Keep on going my friend!
Mixed media ❤ sorry you're fatigued Linda but thanks so much for sharing this important video loved it and the artwork certainly turned out beautiful we should give her a name she sounds like Ariel she's gorgeous 😊
Thanks so much for watching and letting me know that you enjoyed the video! It’s funny because one other comment her said she looked like a moon mermaid so I guess we’ll call her Ariel 🌜🧜♀️💜
Thank you thank you thank you for making this video! I have a chronic illness and get serious brain fog often as well as crushing fatigue…new to your channel and I am Glad I found it :) I am afraid to create when I am tired because I “mess up” but maybe I have to push thru it and use that time to allow myself to be messy and free…thanks again
Welcome, I’m so glad you found my channel to have you as part of this community! When we use art as part of our coping process for our illnesses, science studies have shown that creating intuitive, messy, spontaneous art is more healing than creating more realism based art. It’s all about allowing the creative flow to move through us. Good for you for realizing that sometimes we do need to give ourselves a bit of a push to get going. 💜📚🖍️
Thankyou for sharing. All my pain excuses go out the window 😅 Thanks for reminding me it is about turning up for oneself, and the allowing of with what is in the present moment ❣️ Love from France, and will join you again 🙏✨
I'm so glad I came across your channel. I'm gonna follow your advice about working on art even when fatigued or in to much pain. Now I only make art when making a video and not on the other days. I'm also so afraid to talk about my health in my videos since I just started out. But yeah brain fog is a very annoying thing. 🤣 I had to re-record the ending of my next video 4 times and I'm still not sure if I'm gonna keep it. I may still record yet a new one. 🤣 Oh Mixed Media. 😀
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching and commenting! Talking about your health in videos can be a bit tricky and scary. When I first started sharing about it, I got some really hurtful nasty comments. Because it is my passion is to share about the healing power of creativity when it comes to chronic illness, I made the choice to continue discussing it. 📚🖍️💕
Love the mystery woman. I love how you have addressed just what I deal with as an artist. I have depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia etc. You have encouraged me so much. I hope you have all good days ahead.😊
Thank you so much for sharing and letting me know that you enjoyed the video. So many people don’t realize how debilitating depression and anxiety can be. Here’s to many healthy happy days ahead for both of us. ❤️🙏
I was so happily surprised by this experimentation. I guess you just never know what is possible until you try and experiment with new techniques. 📚🖍️💜
First time visitor & New Sub! What beautiful artwork. I love your quote “ how can you be disappointed when you don’t have a plan?”. How true. MIXED MEDIA! ❤
I can rally relate to this. I have Fibromyalgia and also struggeling with fatigue. As you say, i need to do something little, every day, to just get going and get my brain calm. When i do my craft, my brain seems to get its way back to, atleast a bit, start to work. Keep going and we all are thankful for your art and the inspiration you give us.🙏🏻👏🏻❤️😄📘
I totally resonate with what you said here. Unfortunately, those of us with health issues have to push ourselves much harder to accomplish the things that we need to do for our wellness. I feel so strongly that being creative is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves. Thank you so much for sharing and being a part of this creative community. 📚🖍️💕😘
Can absolutely relate Linda. I have the same experience. It's so amazing how you can start small and then just have that creativity flow over you. Glad you were able to pull yourself into your studio. 👏💗
@@BeginnersMind-ArtMind It's was a pleasure Linda.🤗 Thank you for sharing so open heartedly. I share some of the same challenges. Fatigue being one of them. Hope you enjoy your weekend ahead. 🎨💖
Welcome to the community, happy to have you here! Lots of ME/CFS folks here so you might make some fun connections. Thanks for watching and sharing. 📚🖍️💕
