Painting as therapy; Three figures. 

Here’s a demonstration of a painting of three figures I made as a form of therapy, [ I guess all painting is a form of therapy] in helping me confront my negative feelings over an event that started four years ago . If you can do it with some humor and love, it has to be beneficial. I found this little painting so beneficial I will do more. Try imagine; the process of applying swabs of colorful paint over messy lines that symbolize three things; a messy situation that I helped create, the mess of the mesh of co dependency and entanglement and the mess of people disappointing one another, regardless of who’s at fault, is beneficial in that it
A. Helps identify and put into pictures the things that are disturbing you,
B. Helps you confront and look at the people or events clearly and see they are just renderings of the past,
C. Shows you that you are actually changing how you feel about these things, because symbolically you are using colors and tools to paint over, make light of, and see that things are changeable. This is just the beginning of making huge events seem manageable.
This technique of finding large shapes, loose line washes and working back into them, is effective for painting anything, and over the coming months I will delve into that more. I use a 60 x 40 cm canvas and various acrylics.