Welcome if you’re new here, if not, welcome back!
I’ve been slack in updating and blogging since the move to Florida. I came here sick with bronchitis, it got worse, and long story shorter, it took me quite a while to get back on top, so to speak. I’m feeling great now though, and really enjoying my Art Journaling classes I began to take last December.
Art Journaling has been such a THING for me, it has changed my life. I’ve learned a ton about how to draw, I’ve come a good way in finding my own unique style, and it is a fabulous way to process emotion. I’ve always found doing my abstract art and paintings to be therapeutic, but journaling has taken it to the next level and has helped combine both of my artistic loves together; writing and painting. In journaling I use pencil, colored pencils, markers, acrylic paints, watercolors, pastels, and just any and every medium.
I’ve even started my own YouTube channel (Pam Swyers is the name of it), and I am beginning to share some of what I’m doing in order to encourage others to grab a pencil and paper (start with the basics!) and dive in. You will not regret it. Having done some traditional therapy, I found going from that to the art journaling to be quite a natural segue and helped me transition into working out my emotions on the page or canvas. My focus is very much Art as Therapy for beginners (because there are many out there doing so many amazing things in this area and I’m still relatively new at it!) but I’ve had friends ask me about it so I found that doing videos is a much easier way to SHOW someone what I’m doing, rather than just trying to TELL them about it.
If you are at all intrigued, give the YouTube channel a look-see. There is not a ton of content up yet, but working on it weekly to add more.
So this is a big thing for me these days, as well as trying to get plugged in to our new community, make local friendships, and go out into beautiful Central Florida and just ENJOY being here.
I’m so happy to be feeling good, out walking in the park again, and back to living my BEST life right now.
Have emotions to process?? Join me! We all do!! Have a great FALL my amazing friends!!