Never too much mail art

More mail art!  There is never too much of it - I LOVE IT!  Anyways, here are some photos I have yet shared with you!

The heart of rock and roll was sent to me by Penny:

I love it!  Mail art & music...and holiday (Valentines) appropriate!

This lovely bloom card was sent by Jan:

Again, quite holiday appropriate and I love the glitter!!

More glitter, in the form of a butterfly:

Was sent by Brandi!

Kim sent me a lot more hearts:

Thanks Kim.

This lovely mixed media card:

Came from Theresa and she included a fabric heart too!  Thank you!!

Another mixed media piece came from Katie:

Thank you Katie!

Lastly, and certainly not least, my mom sent me:

I am so excited to go shopping!!

I think that I've received all the mail art that is headed my way for now.  I have signed up for another swap but the mailings on that are not until the first week of April... so there might be a lag in receiving mail art.  On the other hand I now need to make some more mail art so I will be able to show that to you!!

Group Art

Last week in group art therapy class we were told to draw a picture of a negative experience from our past that had turned into a positive experience.  Here is my drawing:

And then we tore them up!  As a group we created a piece with all the torn up pieces from our individual art:

I enjoyed the process!!  The group piece is quite large.. at least 4 feet!  It was kind of wild having 15 girls all doing art together on one sheet of paper, but it worked.

Hope you enjoyed the art peek!!

Doodles

Today I wanted to share some doodles with you!!  This one was done at my internship site when I didn't have any clients to see:

This one:

was done when I received mail art with that stamp... I just had to add it to my art journal!!

This was done during the recent art therapy workshop:

I got the "Enjoy" brad from the workshop too.

This last one was done during class:

It reflects my feelings on all of the reading we have to do this semester.

Well friends, that is all for now!!  Thanks for stopping by - have a GREAT day!!

House-Tree-Person

One of our classes this semester is about assessments (aka tests).  This week we did the House-Tree-Person test. In order to learn about the test, we read (ALOT) and then we actually do the test as if we were the client.  So, first you have the client draw a house:

And then a tree:

Then a person:

Last, they have to draw a person of the opposite sex:

Here is what you should know about my test... I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.  Our teacher gave us 15 minutes per drawing.  I would have done a very quick house and stopped after about 3 minutes, but with so much extra time I kept adding details.  The tree was also more detailed than I would probably have done without knowing I had 15 minutes (in the real test you don't give a time limit - you let them take as long as they want.)  By the end of the tree my arm/hand were hurting so my people were draw rather quick and then I just read an art therapy article until the time had elapsed.

Things like that are important to consider.

This semester we have to give tests to two people.  So, after today I decided not to use this one.  It wore me out and most of my clients are significantly old and highly medicated since we are in a hospital so they are usually already tired.  I think the best part of the class was getting to see everyone else's drawings!!