Painting: Relaxing and Stress Relieving Activity That can Condition Brain Positively

Emotional release like painting can help you relax, forget your worries and rejuvenate you effectively!

Artistic and creative activities as painting, gardening, music can sooth and nurture stressed brain and may help it relax and rejuvenate in a way, that it is recharged again, to perform some complex decisioning actions in daily life. Oil painting is one of them! Painting is relaxing and stress relieving activity that can condition brain positively. there are lot of stressful conditions in daily life but one should learn the habit to relax and let go. Painting has an inherent power to heal the fatigued brain muscles and improve cognitive decline. Painting is meditation! Painting is Therapy!

How and when to start Painting Therapy

Children from school days are encouraged to be involved in some extracurricular activities, to divert their energies constructively and learn a new skill as they are quick learners.

However, this can be achieved at any age irrespectively. One should develop painting as hobby, to artistically spend their time away from regular routine work, to vent their emotions positively. Oil painting is one such artistic activity which though said to be a costly one, but it is a rather beautiful way of showcasing your talent in front of your family and friends.

Painting helps to focus your brain and condition it by zoning in and zoning out activities while painting. You are submerged in your imagination and thoughts and suddenly brought back to real world by slight distractions. You focus to choose the colors , try to mix them may be or try diluting it sometimes. Or try shading it different way depending on light in your room or some other perspective. You are lost in your creation and brought back to reality in fraction of seconds. Take decisions on the go and in this way condition your brain power to face situations. Artists have lesser known cases of memory loss illnesses in their age journey!

Setting the Mood: Collect Art Accessories

Buying color palettes, brushes, canvas and different colors and oil medium will set you in a mood, to create something beautiful. It is that easy!

Start with following accessories:

Oil color box: small starter tube color kit with all twelve colors, 200ml each.

Brushes: 2 small, medium and large round brushes.

Glass Container: To pour oil medium, to clean and stand brushes.

Oil based medium: Turpentine oil or odorless medium for oil painting for intermittent brush cleaning between changing colors as used in water based painting.

Linseed Oil: To dilute the oil paints or change its consistency for seamless painting as and when required. As a beginner you can start with only turpentine oil to serve both purpose.

Old absorbent paper or old cloth: To clean, in case of mishap, as oil or paint spill, on floor.

Palette: To dab brush in paint color or mix the colors for mixing different shades in the painting or changing consistency of color.

Painting Surface or Canvas: This can be a readymade canvas available in hobby stores or any surface as wood piece or board treated with primer to sooth the surface and make ready to paint.

Pencil: Sharpened pencil in case you like to draw a free hand design first or a scenery or a portrait to start painting later on.

Painting cloths or Apron: You may like to dedicate some easy clothing for this activity or an apron to save your cloths from oil stains.

Dedicate a corner: Create a dedicated space with all your art accessories arranged, where you can meditate and create a piece of art, when you want to relax and let go!

Art work journal: Collect some good art work and pictures from magazines and picture cards for inspiration!

Create your own art corner in your favorite spot at home and invite friends to unwind and relax too. Creative oil spills, will have an amazing effect on you and those surrounding you, for sure.

Creative oil spills

Creative oil spills, here means, the acrylic paints, synthetic oil colors and other product of liquid petroleum hydrocarbon, such as oil medium, that is spilled on my canvas, in my canvas creations during relaxation time.

This creative oil spill luckily do not disturb the surroundings, unlike the ocean oil spills that disturbs and alters the natural balance between environment and life on earth.

This hobby of mine, since childhood led me, to participate in art competitions and experiment with pencil colors, crayons, water based colors, on paper and art books and finally led to try my hands on canvas with oil colors. I also got an opportunity, to showcase my oil on canvas work, in an exhibition cum sale in Malaka Spice Art Gallery in Pune, India in 2009.

Some of my art work, created on request of my near and dear ones still adorn their walls and bring back beautiful memories, when I get chance to visit them during vacations. My parents always encouraged to improve and helped me to visit art galleries to appreciate and learn more from the work of renowned artists. Here are some creations for your kind view!!