MIND

I don't mind admitting that I am a member of the mental health Charity MIND. I have mentioned before that I find art therapeutic.  But of course, like many things, I also find it stressful.  I can't work to deadlines, and unsurprisingly I can become compulsive. There's a lot more that I could say, but I won't bore you with the detail.  Anyway, I started Art Classes at MIND, and I am extremely grateful, both for these classes and the drop in sessions that I have attended. 

In one of the Art Classes we were asked to create a ship that was representative of our life. My Charcoal sketch took 50 minutes to design and execute.  The two birds and the break of cloud cover is representative of a glimmer of hope.  At the start of the next Art Class during the following week; we were asked to write a few words regarding our artwork.  This is what I came up with.  The sketch was done on the 3rd February and the charcoal was fixed yesterday.  Interestingly enough the 'facilitator' was kind enough to buy and bring in hairspray for that purpose, and was kind enough to take my sketch outside and fix it for me. What a lovely person.  

The words were written at the start of yesterday's art class, before moving onto a new piece of artwork.  That new piece is not particularly spectacular, the idea was, but its execution wasn't.  The 'Ship' in this post is a photograph of my original piece that was slightly bigger than A3 size.  Another one of the facilitators at MIND was kind enough to photograph my sketch on the 3rd and hand me this photograph when I arrived for the class on the 10th.  Ps 'the victim' is in the water, just to the left of the hull.