Painting is theropuetic

[cookster]

Seriously like 30 minutes ago i was pissed off out of my mind and distressed about tomorow. I sit down to work on a model and i feel fine now. Damn...

 

[mczolton]

I was just telling my wife this as I was cleaning some skellies. Seriously, even cleaning mold lines seems \"Zen\" to me Just wait until I\'ve done two dozen of these buggers and I\'ll probably be singing a different tune

Mark

 

[bayrodney]

+Painting=

Simple as that

 

[supervike]

painting is indeed theraputic. But I find it hard to have the discipline to sit down and do it, especially if I am worked up about something.

Have you ever noticed if you mood has an effect on your painting output? More relaxed=better results...uptight=more tense painting?

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by supervike
Have you ever noticed if you mood has an effect on your painting output?

Definitely.

Painting is good therapy for me too, but I\'ve also noticed sometimes when I\'m painting that I really shouldn\'t be - I\'m in the middle of trying to do something quickly that should really take half an hour or more, a sure sign I\'m not in that \'Zen\' state when things take as long as they take and you don\'t mind.

I hate it if something goes wrong though, it\'s like this lol :flame:

Einion

 

[Ogrebane]

Whilst painting to a deadline is sometimes a good thing. I find I really paint better when I dont have to rush. And quite often the time taken is less than when Im trying to rush. My scouts for WOH is a classic example. I tried to rush them and hated every moment of painting them but the ones before that which I didnt have a deadline for went smoothly and I loved painting them. I guess it is a Zen thing.

Dont know if cleaning mould lines would calm me down tho.

 

[sebrushworth]

I usually lose myself completely in my painting, which can be very therapeutic, but I have trouble sitting down to paint if I\'m pissed off or unhappy about something.

If I screw up something important on a figure I can get so pissed off that I don\'t paint anything for weeks.

 

[toxc]

Hi,

Well, painting even helps me when I have bad headache. When Paracetamol wont work anymore I have to sit down and paint some stuff. The meditative work, all thoughts are concentrated at the top of my brush, no more thoughts about all the stress... this all helps to cure my headache.

 

[Patrick]

Originally posted by Einion
I hate it if something goes wrong though, it\'s like this lol :flame:

I can identify with that. Vicky and I share the same studio space and that seems to be her progression also.

It\'s like that when she drives too.

I find any kind of creative work to be theraputic, but mini work is especially nice, you can focus on one tiny area at a time and block everything else out.

 

[Modderrhu]

I far prefer to be in a good mood before I paint. I try to imagine myself painting before I actually do it, and being upset or angry about something doesn\'t help at all. Painting doesn\'t cure my headaches, unfortunately, though I do wish it did. It takes a while for the brufen to do it\'s job well enough for me to actually see again.

With my gf out of town for a while, the best evenings have been some Tai Chi, followed by some painting. No matter what has happened during the day, it leaves me smiling. Painting minis has seen me through the worst moments in my life and given me goals.

We\'ve had a number of topics on this matter already, but I do appreciate being reminded of one of the reasons I paint.

 

[Sonnyslayer]

:flame: + painting=
+finsihed mini=
+ finding out you didnt remove all the mold lines= :flame:

 

[Logan]

Not wanting to sound like Confucius but...

When people either see me painting or see some of my stuff they say \"You must have patience to be able to do that.\"
To which I reply, \"No, this has taught me patience\".

 

[EricJ]

painting is meditation for me. So rarely can I let my mind relax and let my subconsious flow out a bit, but painting does it (well depending on what I\'m painting). I often have no idea where hours disappear to, but i\'ll look up and it\'s 2am and I should have been in bed hours ago. So for me it\'s not really about patience, since that doesn\'t seem to factor into it at all.

As for my mood, I think it does help, although not so much for short term things, but the mediation sort of lets me work through all the long term/life things and get my in generally to a happy place.

I can also definately get into a bad mood from painting too. Working on my latest, there was a day where I thought I had done somethign and completely killed my composition on the mini and it pissed me off the whole next day, until I had a chance to sit down and fix it.

 

[Ritual]

I have periods of insomnia (runs in the family and doesn\'t get better by a stressful job ) and I have discovered painting to be a good way to deal with it. Instead of lying wide awake in bed and trying to force myself to sleep (which never works anyhow...) I go up and paint. When I can\'t control my eyes anymore it\'s time to go to bed and usually I fall asleep within minutes. A couple of nights like that and I\'m so exhausted the insomnia goes away... And I get lots painted... A win-win situation!

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Art has been my \'happy place\' for a long time. I have delt with a lot of depression and sometimes (I wish all the time) I can sit down at a canvas/paper/mini/etc... and I just kinda \'go zen\'. Just riding that creative wave. I think I need to log off, wax up the ol board and go surfin now.