During our one to one Nature Art Therapy sessions we take inspiration from the natural world and what interests Elise, exploring her interests through a variety of art mediums and different materials. We are learning through our senses as we explore and investigate the changing seasons. Our senses allow us to grow, to feel, and to enjoy the world. By witnessing the changes in the seasons we can reflect on our own personal changes that we have to encounter.
Snow Play
Playful Nature Art helps develop Elise's unique perspective and individual style of creative expression. Snow provides a brand new canvas to play with, to explore and create enchanting art like Elise’s adorable duck sculpture using snow balls.
We explored, shapes, colour, textures using snow and earth paint. We love to use earth paint, its safe and eco friendly.
An engaged imagination - Elise shared stories both orally and through simple drawings with a stick in the snow.
Playful Nature Art helps to calm her body and mind and nourish her heart and soul.
During our nature art sessions Elise draws on the power of her amazing imagination. It is important that Elsie has the independence and control in the creative process.
Today we learned that polar bears live in the Arctic and unlike the Black Bears here in the Okanagan, BC who hibernate, Polar Bears do not. Another wonderful example of how bears can be similar and yet they are different too. just like we are.
Outdoors Elise chalked out a polar bear keyline using familiar shapes onto black paper.
She then ripped up pieces of white paper placing them within the chalk keyline. Once she was happy with her polar bear she added Winters blue skies using chalk pastels.
Later Elise made an igloo for her clay polar bear (she had made earlier in the day) and her little friend penguin who lives in Antarctica which led to more storytelling both orally and through illustration.
She continues to learn and grow through her creative journey, learning more about herself our differences and the beautiful natural world we share. Through her creative explorations she is discovering her own art style and how unique she is and how unique her art is.
Art teaches us how to Live
“Lead you students towards nature, into nature; let them learn by experience how a bud is formed; how a tree grows; how a butterfly opens its wings, so that they will become as rich as variable; as capricious as nature herself.” - Paul Klee