Week 1: Create a vision board that reflects your hopes and dreams for the year. Week 2: Paint or draw a self-portrait that represents your current state of mind. Week 3: Design a piece that symbolizes a fresh start or a new chapter in your life. Week 4: Use colors that make you feel hopeful and optimistic to create an abstract piece.

Mixed media on canvas panel. 5x7in. In the beginning of my art journey this was one of that spoke to me and I continue to have hanging on my wall.

1⃣ Isaiah 43:19 —Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring both; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. 2⃣ 2 Corinthians 5:17 —Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have become new. 3⃣ Lamentations 3:23 —They (His mercies) are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 4⃣ Ezekiel 36:26 —I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

Earlier this year I found a technique that has given me such relief, it's on my YouTube channel @sdstudios7 and I have posted it in the classroom under Art & Stuff--Neurographic Art. Let me know if you have ever tried this technique.. I love the process and release!