This is Art Therapy

This is Art Therapy, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

After a difficult day, I borrowed the red wine from dinner to start this image. Then, watching reruns on CNN I drew the psychotic looking cat with red pencil. I was listening to the story of suriviors from Jim Jones People's Temple. Now the wine color reminds me of blood.
The value in art therapy is putting feelings inside you onto the art, seeing them there, and knowing you can get free of them this way.

Watching

Watching, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

Based a bit on my daughter, who can always give me that piercing look. This is also on Everyday Matters Facebook page.

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

I bought old sheet music of this Appalachian folk ballad, intending to draw on it. Am practicing today on my sample ballot.
This is also posted on Everyday Matters Facebook page today.

Morning Coffee

Morning Coffee, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

All the focus is on that first warm sip in the morning.

The same old tools

The same old tools, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

Sketching what was in front of me. The horse sketch is not in perspective. When I drew that, it was just a doodle. Then I began adding stuff and wound up here.

Biblio Buddha

Biblio Buddha, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

I never do read the page until the drawing is done. But I found this one interesting with all the references to death and suffering and belief buried under the lines I had drawn.

St Mark's Horses

Untitled, originally uploaded by askthemoon.

The bronze horses at St. Mark's, doodled with some lettering on a manila envelope.