Sometimes the 'darker' emotions are strong enough that I feel stuck creatively.
Those are times when I pull out magazines and go through them to find material for collages or art 'journal' pages (a bit of a misnomer since there is often very little journalling... but I'm not sure what else to call them).
Often, the images I will be drawn to cut out reflect my emotional state.
By the time I have cut out images for a while, I've been brought more into the present moment and reconnected with my creative juice - and am then able to collage or art journal.
Sometimes, this process actually lifts me out of the difficult emotions. It feels healthy and healing - like the emotions are actually being processed, not ignored or shoved inside to hurt me.
Here are a few pages I did a while ago - adding to them each time I was in a dark place. Sometimes these pages get journalled on later.
I give myself permission to be messy :-)
In the above page, the background was done, in part, using this technique I came up with to create a random/chaotic look on thin papers that would warp with wet mediums.
In the above piece, I wanted a messy stamp and didn't have one so I carved one from an eraser (stamp carving is another thing that can totally absorb me and bring me into the moment).
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