My art ( Art as therapy ) Poetry & Paintings

My art.

( Art as therapy )

Observational art, from real life images, or raw emotion art, from my heart!

I use art as a way of expressing myself, and as an outlet to vent my emotions.

So far I have used pencil, charcoal, oil pastels, and water colour paints.

Very often I will notice the beauty in nature around me when walking my dog, such as wild flowers, and I will then take a photograph of those things that catch my attention and interest, and then I will draw it from my observation of the photograph, then create the finished picture later on at home.
This tends to be when I am feeling fairly calm or in a stable mood. ( That's what I've noticed so far when doing this.)

Then there is the other type of art, where I just use my imagination. No pictures, or photo's, just my raw emotion onto paper, again using any of the mediums mentioned above.

The following is a few examples of my most recent work.

This was a water colour from a photograph that I took. I drew  it in pencil first, from observing the photo, then used water colour paints to colour it in.

This one was created from memory, of a place I had been to on the Isle of Wight in England UK. It is of an outdoor swimming pool, with a view of the sea beyond. It is made using oil pastels.

This one above is what I described as my 'graffiti' art created using just my emotions alone. I created it from how I was feeling at the time. ( yesterday late afternoon, early evening )
( 17th March 2014 )
The other two pictures above are rather self- explanatory, but this above I would like to say a little about.
I was feeling extremely agitated, and frustrated when I created this.
I wanted to offload and express how I was feeling.
This painting started as cyclone-type spirals in black and shades of blue. Rather like tornado's or  cyclones.
Getting the 'picture'?
Sheer and utter TURMOIL is how I was feeling. See I have painted the word 'LIAR'? That's because I get unwanted negative nasty unhelpful thoughts in my head, which is due to the Bipolar. Thoughts and statements such as ''No-one gives a f*** about you, no ones interested in what you've got to say.......etc etc etc.......

I had drawn 'cyclone-type' spirals, with words to describe how I was feeling inside. I then took this flow of thought to create this graffiti art.

This is what I had written just before I painted this.

'' I feel as if I'm screaming inside, this awful feeling is so hard to hide.
I want to try and find a way to describe, this turmoil within.......like a tornado......or a cyclone.......I'm caught up in it's path.............and when it's passed.........?
I'm left with the aftermath.........
of what's left.

My face contorts with the agony inside.
Every fear I've ever known- is now magnified.
Treacherous, continuous, there is no end in sight,
only death itself will end this fight.
I want to cry, but I don't make a sound.
Only agony, silent, relentless can be found.
Deep down inside, where no one can see,
the depth of it's misery, known only by me.

WHY?     is it doing this to me when I thought I was doing so well?''


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