Art and Emotions 2

This is what I drew the day we had to have our cat put to sleep.

This was AFTER four years of studying painting and drawing and printmaking at Stanford.

What's my point? Sometimes mark-making is purely an emotional thing. It's not necessary to always be "making" something, or making your drawing "look like" something.

Kids understand this intuitively. And if they have drawing as an outlet for their feelings, often they can feel safer expressing them.

I write more about this in my Art and Emotions post on my other blog too.