Site Interoduction
After a day of rain on coronation day, I changed my workshop location to my friend’s home. Fortunately, occupations allow me to host the event there. Therefore, my art therapy workshop started at a private residence on 7th May at 2 PM. Due to the particularity of the site, the audience from fifteen reduces to nine people, including my reviewers from my early research, my colleagues from CSM, and my friends who live or study in the UK.
Activity Photos
At the start, I invited the audience to play a small game. I drew different colour bubbles on a piece of paper and asked them to use their understanding to define the emotion of colours. This game can help participants explore and express their emotions and can also help them understand the changes and reasons behind their emotions.
Most of them are not skilful painters, so I want to lead them to draw “emotion”, also called “drawing imagery”, Individuals begin to draw imagery, using elements such as colour, line, and shape to express their emotions and feelings. During the drawing process, individuals should aim to express themselves as freely and relaxed as possible without being overly concerned with artistic technique or appearance.
Gallery
Me during the Workshop
Feedback
Abi: I really enjoyed the workshop and it would have been nice to have a theme for the second portrait session. Airelle and I discussed our favourite plants – hydrangeas – and our comfort food, and then put these elements into the painting.
Amber: This workshop was so much fun, I would like to take part in the next one. Maybe next time you could change the order a bit and have someone else draw a companion first and then yourself. The result could be very different!
Ruth： I enjoyed the event, and it would make it a bit smoother if next time you taught some basic drawing techniques first.
Cloe: I love these examples you have posted on the wall, they help us a lot, but you could look for more styles of portraits that would be better.
Ciara： I love art! This event helped me to free my brain from intensive exams and give it a rest. I’ll invite my friends back for this workshop next time!
In summary, everyone enjoyed the event and gave me positive comments, which I felt appreciated.