Christmas Is Beautiful

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts

This is the message of Christmas. We are never alone.

A Christmas Quote

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

If you can dream it, you can do it

A Quote From J.M.Barrie

Change The Way You Look At Things And The Things You Look At Change

Writing inspired canvas

I created this canvas (excuse the terrible picture) because I wanted to relate it to writing and use words but not a quote, I wanted to do something different this time but inspiring too and what's more inspiring than nature? So I made a silhouette of a bird in flight out of newspaper and then rolled up newspaper sheets for the stem of the flower and created the flower out of circles of newspaper and screwed up inside the flower is a brightly coloured piece of paper-even though it isn't visible to an outsider, I like the idea of the contrast, it appears to be black and white but inside is a little ball of colour-hope.

Ways To Spend A Sunday

Coke Fashion

MK Gallery

Today, I visited MK Gallery as part of the research section for my Arts Award. Yesterday I decided I would 'go for Gold' rather than do the silver award and so I visited the gallery for some inspiration. It wasn't my typical interest, I like art with deep emotional meaning whether that be through words or images and the majority of the work was portrait based, however I did get some inspiration from a car they were exhibiting. Art is not always a canvas on a wall, cars are art as are rooms and gardens, people once designed these things on paper and the result is 3D art with a use, this has inspired me to perhaps get people to read my written pieces using 3D art.
I've returned home with a head full of ideas.

Passenger Inspired Art

Just another quote

A Morning Stroll

This morning I decided to fight my mental illness head on, I was not going to sit in silence in a dark room again-no I was going to eat breakfast and go for a walk. These were the photographs-such a beautiful place.

Silver Arts Award

At the art group I go to at BYHP, we've been working towards getting an Arts award, I'm working towards the silver Arts award and this is some of my work:

Title page

Setting the arts challenge

Starter activity from week one

Using Stencils

Day Hospital

I bought this beauty of a book ready for day hospital, and in case things get really bad and I end up inpatient. I assume there will be lots of sitting about and hopefully as I begin to feel better I will have more motivation to do things, like writing and sketching.

Making My Own Scrapbook

I go to an art group at BYHP and last term we created our own scrapbooks. I used an old Cardboard box and painted it blue inside and green on the outside. I chose to have a sweet shop theme and so made lots of little paper jars to create a window sweet shop effect on the outside, using brown card as the window frame and plastic sheets to create the glass effect. On the inside I then used sponges and foam in the shape of foam fruit shapes, like the traditional foam banana. I then chose a mixture of card and marble paper I had made on a previous week and stitched this into the spine of my book and this was the finished product:

Front

Back

Inside

Creative Writing Session 1

Today I began my first creative writing session at The Mill Arts Centre in Banbury.

I was quite apprehensive and anxious as 'going out' is not really my thing, sends my anxiety and thoughts crazy, and I'm quite poorly with my mental health at the moment, so it was a huge thing for me. I really want to learn though, I've found a passion in writing and I believe words hold a lot of power.

We learnt about Alliteration and looked at 'The Elements Of Eloquence' by Martin Forsyth, we then proceeded to write our own pieces focusing around Nelson Mandela's funeral using alliteration to grasp the reader's attention, drawing in interest, making sentences memorable.

The other group members shared some of their work from home and we gave constructive criticism.

Feeling very motivated to write at the moment, especially whilst I am so unwell, perhaps I can help an 'outsider' to really understand how isolating and terrifying mental illness can be.