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Feeling Safe to express Emotions
Feeling Safe to express Emotions
Learning how to feel deeply, manage emotions and comfort oneself can be incredibly empowering. When you can identify your emotions and practice feeling them, you will increase your ability to tolerate uncomfortable or difficult emotions without acting out. This is a very important skill.
Knowing how or what you are feeling and why you are feeling that way is critical to being able to communicate and work with others. (In Focus Pt. Two week 12.)
How do we represent emotions visually?
How do we represent emotions visually?
color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value (Elements of ART)
balance, emphasis, harmony, movement, pattern, proportion, repetition, rhythm, unity, and variety (Principles of ART)
ART is designed to help us express and work through our emotions.
ART is designed to help us express and work through our emotions.
It can tell a story or express a dream or even give others a inside peak into your imagination.
Lines
A dark, thick, angled line can show anger or being mad
A thin, flowing, rounded line can show happiness
Shapes
Squares, triangles and rectangles can show anger, fear, confusion
Ovals can show sadness
Circles can show happiness and joy
Colors
Red can mean anger or love
Pink can mean love or cheerful
Blue can mean sadness or calm
Green can mean good energy, soothing, calm and safety
Yellow can mean cheerful and good energy
Orange can mean happiness and healthy
Purple can mean sadness, disgust and mystery
Our Process
Our Process
Start by thinking about how you feel today. Are you Happy, Sad, In a bad mood, tired, lonely, Joyful, Silly, grumpy, frustrated...etc.
Now on your paper use the elements of art to express (show) that emotion.
Now on your paper use the elements of art to express (show) that emotion.
Draw with Pencil: Use lines and shapes to show emotions that you are feeling today.
Color and add texture with color sticks and felt tip black pens. Use what we have learned about line, shape, color and texture to express how you are feeling today.
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