Art diary “Self-Knowledge”

Description of technology.
A deep topic for a sketchbook can be recommended to a client who is mature enough in a stable state aimed at self-knowledge. You can use completely different materials and techniques for decorating sheets of an art diary: collages, applications, use fabrics, and other materials, drawing techniques, both acrylic and other types of paints. There are no restrictions on working on the proposed topic, any form, appearance, image can display the topic both at an abstract or symbolic level, and actually convey information about the “I”

Purpose: the creation of this kind of art diary on the subject of self-knowledge makes it possible for the client to easily structure and understand the main axes of his own consciousness and subconsciousness. It gives an opportunity within the framework of creative expression to find the optimal form of self-presentation and self-understanding. The art diary is a form of emergency psychological self-help and a place for safe response of emotions.
Instruction: The main task of a person is to know his desires, needs and opportunities. To activate your resources and personal potential, in order to achieve this goal, you can offer a form of keeping an art diary on the topic “Self-Knowledge”. The topics selected for the diary provide an opportunity to see all the facets of the human “I”. You can keep a diary in a free form to implement the topic you want, the time to create a diary is not limited. In order to present the topic in more detail, you can use all visual materials: paintings, newspaper clippings, aphorisms, poems, drawings, applications, photos. The analysis of the presented topic is carried out together with a psychologist. Try to fix the questions that you have when working on an art diary. Remember what surprises or what is not clear.

Materials for creating an art diary: The client himself chooses a sketchbook, the number of sheets must be at least 60. Paints, pencils, felt-tip pens for visual design of themes, decoration materials.
Approximate subject of the art diary “Self-Knowledge”
1. My portrait – “How the world sees me”
2. If I was born on another planet – “I’m an alien”
3. A place of rest, protection and restoration
4. First childhood memories
5. My favorite color of life
6. colorful mood
7. Ornament for the canvas of my life
8. If I were a vegetable what kind of vegetable would I be?
9. If I were an insect what kind of insect would I be
10. If I were a flower what
11. my favorite weather
12. Peace Tree
13. Tree of my kind
14. My past, present and future
15. My line, my color, my shape
16. My symbol
17. My map of life
18. My dream
19. My plus and minus
20. My internal clock
21. abstract fantasy
22. An umbrella that will protect me from all problems
23. Starry sky of my goals
24. My house
25. My mood emoticon
26. my fire
27. Roads of life
28. my future happiness
29. Something in 10 years
30. My inner flows
31. The fish that will fulfill my desires
32. The labyrinth in which I get lost
33. What’s stopping me
34. My guardian angel
35. Boxes with my tasks for life
36. Experience bag
37. My puppet puppet
38. A haven to which I can always return
39. A landscape that gives peace and joy
40. Jewelry with magical powers of healing
41. My aura – how I imagine it
42. A drop from the ocean of the wisdom of the world
43. Help
44. How do people wear their problems
45. problem and task.
46. The space of my life
47. My personal space
48. Types of spaces.
49. Trust and credulity.
50. I like
51. The emotions of the people around me
52. What I can best
53. Mandala of harmony
54. Interweaving of male and female in me
55. My geometry of consciousness
56. My universe, which I create myself
57. Three wells of knowledge
58. I need
59. My goal is my target
60. Music of my soul
©Victoria Nazarevich