How my sketchbook is helping me be nicer to myself

healing from art school one page at a time

This video is a deep dive into my origins/reasons for starting a sketchbook practice in the first place and how once I tied the idea to Self-Compassion, I realized there was a great deal of magic waiting for me if I just trusted myself again!

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Maybe Buy Some Art or sign up for a class

Read Fierce Self Compassion by Kristen Neff (this is an affiliate link to my bookshop storefront)

Other things mentioned in the vid:

Review of the Hot Tub Dialogues in The Pitch by Theresa Bembnister https://www.thepitchkc.com/nothing-watered-down-at-subterranean-gallerys-hot-tub-dialogues/

Baby Mel’s first art writing https://subterraneangallery.wordpress.com/category/hot-tub-dialogues-lecture-series/

Now based in Seattle and still readable, Informality http://informalityblog.com

Look at more paintings in the screenshot series here https://melmitchelljackson.com/cmnd-shift-3 the other painting (made in Photoshop first) was from my BFA thesis series of my apartment. https://melmitchelljackson.com/interiors