Expressive Paintings
For Vancouver Technical Secondary School's Expressive Painting Project, students were asked to create a series of drawings.
First, they created a drawing with coloured chalk of a current emotional state, how they were that day. ("Today I am...")
Next, they created a drawing of their "Ideal State", being all they could be. For a third drawing, students draw inner qualities they had that would help them to move from their current state to their ideal state. Students wrote their thoughts on the back of each drawing.
Students joined each series of three drawing together - Current State Drawing, Inner Quality Drawing and Ideal State Drawing. They choose one of the series to paint and painted this transition. These paintings were featured at Heart-Mind 2013.
Susan Jones, the Van Tech art teacher introduced reflective writing and mindful breathing practice early on in the school year . She integrates this practice in some way in each art project - whether drawing from observation, imagination or expressively.
"I'm simply thrilled that these talented young artists' work was showcased at Heart -Mind 2013 (UBC)," said Susan Jones, the Van Tech art teacher who led the project.