Art Therapy

 Well my good and loving friend Mel is seeing some hard times and she is depressed and spaced out; staring in to blank space... this is well, not the Melly-Welly I know :( . She was only complaining about how she is not painting and needs something to keep her out of her state of depression. So one day she finally decided to start and  took this large canvas she had brought it to work. She gave it to me and some other friends (Shauntal, Xia and Arisa) to prime the bored by just splashing paint all over the bored. We had rel fun doing this (a real stress releaser it was), we were left with a colourful canvas board.

How I left Mel with the painting

 Next step Mel  took Arisa's Avon calendar for 2011 and told Shauntal to draw these calla lilies which where in the month October. I then took Das air drying clay and molded the edges of the lilies and the thingy in th centre of the flower... lol, stock tissue paper and glue to form the body of the petal and a textured j-cloth to form the steam of the lilies. I began painting the calla lilies... yea at this time I wanted to paint the painting by myself, I was falling in love with it...teehee... but I can't do that this is for Mel and other to enjoy...It was late and Mel had to leave so i decides to pack up and go home as well. we left the painting in the artroom  Now the painting was in Mel hands.

 I went by Mel today to start that commission painting I was talking about and well... this is how far Mel reached with the painting. I really love what she has done with it. When i asked her if she is finished painting it she told me no, so I really can't wait to see how she is going to complete it. Will keep you posted on the completion of the painting. Hope she is having fun painting it and people please pray for Mel to return to her happy state, it really bothers me to she her the way she is :( . So hope you like our art therapy painting so far. 

the tissue paper gave the lily a nice veiny textured look. 

another bored we splashed and Mel painted the flower found in the month September
while i worked on  the lily  painting