Anxious
We’ve all been there; a test, a date, something we said. We have ways to calm ourselves down, things we do or tell ourselves. We go for a run, a walk, we eat pie. I have found drawing the difficult feelings very helpful over the years. Somehow this week was harder for me, but I pushed through anyway. I am discovering that what I think that anxious looks like in my head, isn’t always what it has to look like on paper.
The drawings go in order, Days 1-5. Click on the first drawing and you can click through them all.
Day 1. I am trying to express what anxious feels like or would look like as a person. I get cloudy thoughts, worried, uncertainty, fear. Red seems anxious, even thought I love red and don’t really associate it with anxiety.
Day 2: I did this painting on paper a month ago. I think that it is the best of all of them, somehow it expresses exactly how anxiety feels for me, a mix of confusion, noise, sadness and inability to act.
Day 3: Anxious is sometimes brought on by too many thoughts, too many things to do, no clear direction, procrastination that leads to more confusion and more thoughts and more to do’s.
Day 4: Anxious is me in a bubble protecting myself from what feels like Everyone accusing me of doing something wrong.
Day 5: Anxious is making something beautiful and then not being able to see its worth. I then cover it up because I am afraid to show its full majesty. Sometimes what we fear most is our own incredible self.
This is the Draw Your Feelings Project.
Next Feeling: Confident
Will you join me? This is a year long project, dedicated to connecting to our feelings and ourselves through our art. Send me your drawings, I’d love to see them!