

Many family therapy programs ask children to draw their family as a way of visually representing the people close to them. Patients may be asked to draw a self-portrait or sketch out a scene of an important memory. Most people can draw with little training, so the typical program might begin with drawing to introduce the concept of creative arts therapy. Sculpting incorporates clay, carving tools, pottery wheels, and other tools to create three dimensional shapes.ĭrawing is useful for patients who want to quickly create a representation of something and can be incorporated into therapy with very little equipment necessary.

Painting is done using various forms of pigmented solutions, often applied with a brush, but can include technology like the airbrush, spray paint, or sponge brushes as well. Drawing is typically done with graphite pencil, crayons, charcoal, chalk, markers, or pastels. The oldest form of arts therapy, the modalities of visual arts offer patients the ability to work with their hands to create an image. Word spread of his success in using creativity and art making practices to take patient’s focus off their illness and enable them to get better. Hill went on to teach visual arts techniques to hospitalized soldiers and expanded his understanding of the healing effects of creative arts. He observed that when his fellow patients made expressive art, including drawing and painting, their mental health improved. Hill himself was a patient at one of these hospitals and began teaching visual expressive arts to other patients.
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