Make garbage art.
Music students and teachers--take heed
Do art because it makes you smile.
I keep cheap brushes, canvases and paints well stocked at home just for those instances when the world is too much and doomscrolling is holding strong and ugh.
The perfect remedy is to throw some paint down and try to recreate a scene or a human form or a cat face or some geometric design.
You can't control the world. Believe me, I've tried.
But you can control your laughter quotient.
This morning, I drove to the perfect spot to paint. I timed my arrival so that I'd be ready to paint when earth rotated enough for my location (longitude 42.337708, latitude 82.999336) to begin facing the sun.
And so I did.
This was my vantage point from which I painted.
It's a terrible painting. It will not be hung in my house. It might not make it home.
But it was fun, and for two hours I sipped very good coffee and looked at birds and deer and colored with paint brushes and looked at water and listened to music and contemplated.
The benefits of doing art for funsies can not be overstated. Your mental health, yor concentration, your humor, your talents, and more are enhanced.
If you end up with a masterpiece, even better.
And, funnily enough, you sometimes do get a masterpiece—because you let go and had fun.
Go make “garbage” art.
We teach this.
