5 ways to give your Paint by Numbers artwork a second life!
According to mentalhealth.org.uk, “participating in the arts can enable people to deal with a wide range of mental ill-health conditions and psychological distress.” So keep painting! You will feel better for it.
- Re-define an existing space
Hang a vibrant artwork filled with colour to add great impact and delight to your space. If you'd like to create a calmer space, hang a calm painting filled with warmer tones. You could even add your personal touch and add humour to the space with a comical artwork. Spruce up your existing hallway or entrance way by hanging a piece of artwork. As you walk past, it will remind you to find that inner calm and positive energy, ready for the day ahead.
- Create a chill out nook
After a long hard day, kick back and relax with your favourite book under your new painting hung in your new creative calm nook to create a safe and warm space. By creating a space around the painting, you will keep the time you painted your artwork alive. The feelings, the thoughts, the journey and relaxation alive. This will help you focus on the more positive thoughts reducing stress and actively calming your anxiety. To reinforce that place of calm and peace, dress up your nook with a diffuser and favourite reading materials keep that sense of peace alive and growing!
- Spruce up your stress-free zone
By creating a space around the painting, you will keep the time you painted your artwork alive. The feelings, the thoughts, the journey and relaxation alive. This will help you focus on the more positive thoughts reducing stress and actively calming your anxiety. To reinforce that place of calm and peace, dress up your nook with a diffuser and favourite reading materials keep that sense of peace alive and growing!
- Addicted to Paint by Numbers, Create a gallery space
Dress up your walls like a gallery space! There are great benefits to your brain each time you are viewing art. This counts for all art pieces, including highly photo-realistic artwork to the abstract collections of shapes lines and colours. Looking at art stimulates the brain and fosters your innate ability for organising patterns and making sense of design while calming the mind.
5. Gift of giving
Gift your piece to a special someone, friend or family member to show how much you care about them. Choose a painting to paint and gift while making space for your own down time and self care. This is a gift where everyone wins. This is a meaningful gesture that shows they are worthy of your time and effort. They best gift of all.
- Brigitte Gerges