Art, Painting, Drawing - Share Yours

[FindingMyself88]

oops sorry @Ayesha , I tried searching but apparently not good enough. Do you want me to just post there and you delete this post?

 

[franciemarnie]

That's beautiful. I wrote a book, which I didn't realize was a metaphor for my experience of PTSD until I was done. Art is truly healing. My fairy tale was reality. It told me what I needed to know.

 

[TLight]

Those are so beautiful and innocent 'findingmyself.' Brought tears to my eyes.

I too had horses as a child. I'm so lucky to have one now at 49.......he is what I wake up in the morning for. I'm so fortunate.
To me, there is nothing comparable to the bond one can have with a horse. People who haven't had the pleasure of that can not seem to comprehend it and I can't seem to explain it. There are no words.

ptsd and horses = trust, love, healing.

 

[FindingMyself88]

That is awesome @franciemarnie ! Thank you and yes, art is healing. My T is helping me cultivate it and she can pull meanings out of it that I had done subconsciously or without really thinking about it.

@TLight thank you so much :hug: You are so lucky, I hope to one day give my heart to a horse again. For now I volunteer at a therapeutic riding facility for kids and whenever I go back to my hometown, I go visit my old barn and ride. However, no horse has captured my heart like Greyson did. Yes! Horses are definitely healing, Greyson is who kept me alive in high school!

 

[WillyKat]

I know what you're saying though I can't draw or paint, unless you're talking about drywall, and even that's questionable. But I get you're work and understand the connection.

When I was little, maybe a couple years after the abuse, our horse was running wild around the pasture, clearly disturbed about something. I opened the gate to get closer to her, and as soon as I did, she ran right at me. For a second I thought she'd run right over me but she stopped just to one side of me. Right in front of me on one of her lower ribs was a bee, stinging her. I brushed the bee off and then had to go back and pull out the stinger. I petted her and she calmed down.

 

[Hashi]

@findingmyself your pictures are really lovely.

 

[FindingMyself88]

@WillyKat it can honestly be any kind of art, those are just the ones I work in. Thank you :)

Aw, poor baby :(. Greyson got stung one time while we were cantering towards a jump. I was already in two point position (leaning forward) and he bucked. When he did, I went under his neck. He lurched to the side to keep from hitting me but in the process he cut his shoulder badly on a tree. He immediately came and stood over me until someone got to me. Thankfully all I had was a concussion, I could have been killed. I felt horrible that he messed his shoulder up though for me, it had to have stitches.

@Hashi Thank you :)

 

[Echo]

@FindingMyself88 - I particularly love your drawing. Just beautiful.

 

[FindingMyself88]

Thank you @Echo I do love the drawing the best of the two. Although I have to say painting was very helpful considering the last few days have been really hard and I've been really anxious. I am looking at ideas for new paintings now..

 

[Deleted member 12723]

My oldest granddaughter is part native American and she makes beautiful dream cathers that she either gives away or sells. She is in tune with nature.

What I used to do was go through magazines and cut out words that meant something to me. Then I would arrange them in a collage on brown paper. They meant so much to me. They told my story.

I am a strong believer in art expressing emotion.

 

[Barberian]

Did this thread get merged? I used to post in "Get your art on, all types of art included", now find my posts in this thread.

 

[cherryblossom]

@Barberian , yes the threads were merged by Anthony because they were both similar. See post #552.