Drawing Inside Circles

If you'd like to draw as a way to ground, but need guidance, this is a great prompt. It also can be more grief specific if you want. It's one you can recycle and use over and over.

This prompt can act as a symbolic container for what needs to be held or it can be simple and grounding without touching grief directly.

This prompt is great for all ages, you can see the kiddo version below.

You can use any shape you want, it doesn’t need to be circles. I like to use circles as I find they are easily accessible as most have containers of various sizes that can be used. All you need is something to draw with and a surface to draw on. It can be as detailed or as simple as you’d like it to be.

I will be walking you through each step if you’re not sure where to start or how to go about drawing inside of your circle. If you want to go off on your own and once we get started do your own thing as always, I encourage creative freedom.

This one is great for kiddos too, see the image below for an example of a kid version of this prompt.

Here they are all together…

Below is a time-lapse of creating the example directly above.

Supplies:

For a full list of supplies we typically use in Art Your Grief you can go to the link here, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page linked (to see several lists that meet your needs).

• Pen

• Paper (I used watercolor paper that’s listed on our supply lists in the above link)

• Optional: Pencil and eraser

• Optional: small acrylic white paint pen

As with all of our prompts, I will walk your through step by step with my voice recording as well as written steps and photos for each step. My hope is that you will feel like we are doing this work together and that you can express and process in a way that feels helpful for you.