Stimulate

04/15/2020

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/isaac-abrams-illuminations-the-chambers-project-nevada-city-ca/

Isaac Abrams was born in 1939 and raised in New York City. With a background in academics ranging from literature, history, science and psychology, Ab...

05/20/2019

"Producing visual art diminishes the experience of negative emotions and increases positive ones and reduces depression, stress, and anxiety."

In a cave in Indonesia, there are outlines of human hands traced in paint. To date, these tracings are the oldest example of art, dating back nearly 40,000 years ago. Human beings don't consistently perform an activity for 40,000 unless its hardwired into us, and making art is something that is as h...

04/22/2018

“supports openness to experience, the personality attribute that is most strongly correlated with creativity.”

A new study conducted by psychologist Barbara Kerr and her students found that social and cultural factors account for why Icelandic people are so creative.

03/31/2018

05/12/2017

Hear your voice in the silence of the brush strokes

04/30/2017

What is creativity?

06/20/2016

Create. Meditate. :-)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/study-says-making-art-reduces-stress_us_576183ece4b09c926cfdccac

Researchers found that 45 minutes of creative activity significantly lessens stress in the body.

03/31/2016

An amazing celebration of life, love and happiness. It was so great to spend this day with the friends and the loved ones. Till the next STIMULATION!

03/22/2016

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ~ Rumi

02/07/2016

Sundays: paint meditation and yoga. End your week the right way. :-)

02/05/2016

Anyone can and should draw/paint. Creativity is as essential to our well being as a healthy diet and exercise.

This is a simply technique for which you just need watercolors + ink + clear mind.
Don’t plan, don’t overthink, let the material show you what it wants to become.
Let it STIMULATE your creative side!

02/04/2016

"Like other tools, art has the power to extend our capacities beyond those that nature has originally endowed us with. Art compensates us for certain inborn weaknesses, in this case of the mind rather than the body. It is a channel of empathy into our own psychology that lets us both exorcise and better understand our emotions — in other words, a form of therapy."

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/10/25/art-as-therapy-alain-de-botton-john-armstrong/

“Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.”