Hopeful
Why is it that I am always drawing the opposite word than I am feeling? I guess that’s the point of this exercise, to try and feel feelings that I may not be connected to. It also acts as a good means of distraction to tap into a different feeling from what you are feeling if you are in a swampy place. This week was hard for me, not because I couldn’t feel hopeful, but because I was very distracted and couldn’t get into a place of calm to connect. I also realise that some of the ways that I am drawing can get repetitive, and the feelings start blurring together when I do this, so next week I will change that up and see what happens.
The drawings go in order, Days 1-5. Click on the first drawing and you can click through them all.
Day 1. Hopeful is a magical creature that visits from another land. Hopeful is the magic that comes from my imagination when I let myself draw without thinking too much.
Day 2: I am thinking too much, but I feel hopeful in a particular place, in the dunes on my walks.
Day 3: Hopeful is knowing that you can change things at any moment, that you can add layers and layers and create something new, and that there are always new ways of creating and drawing and seeing and thinking.
Day 4: This is a bad attempt at turning another gray day into a hopeful one, and it’s not working.
Day 5: Hopeful is looking out the window into an imaginary space, an imaginary place, with movement and action and ideas and excitement and fun!
This is the Draw Your Feelings Project.
Next Feeling: Lonely
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!