Form it needs

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Expressive Art Activity # 17 - Expressive Self-Portrait

Materials:

- Acrylic paint

- Collage papers and magazine clippings

- White glue and sponge brush

- Heavy paper or journal page

Method:

It is intriguing to create an expressive self-portrait that focuses more on your inner state than your outer appearance. This expressive art exercise is good when you feel like one stage of your life is ending and you do not yet know where you are going. Reflect on the question. "Who am I right now?" Or you might ask, "Who am I becoming?" 

Paint a loose representation of a face in acrylic paint. As you let your paint dry, gather and cut out your collage items. When your underpainting is dry, quickly and spontaneously glue on your imagery by painting both sides of the image liberally with white glue. The white glue on top of the image will waterproof it so that you can paint or glaze over top of it. When your collage items have dried you can "bury" some of your imagery into your self-portrait with more acrylic paint. 

Allow your expressive self-portrait to be "negative" or "ugly" if it needs to be. We often express what we have hidden or rejected about ourselves before we can truly celebrate and own our beautiful qualities. Consider this quote by psychologist Eugene Gendlin, who writes, "What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes....if there is in you something bad, sick, or unsound, let it inwardly be and breathe. That's the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs."


stand out is the most recognizable image that i see so i believe "stand out" plays a main part on who i am right now. 



"feed your color addiction" = how ive been using color therapy constantly to help guide me through my emotional issues in my relationship that has become a struggle in the past months


"show the love" = what i really need to be focusing on in my relationship to help us out or through these current struggles
clearly, who i am has a lot to do with the relationship i am in.


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