three eye-catching activities on Instagram

A WHO report, published in November 2019, underlines how bringing art into one’s life, in particular through the practice of activities such as singing, writing or photography, is beneficial for physical and mental health. . With the health crisis due to Covid-19, it is even more true: write to throw away confined moods, create on a sheet of paper or on a computer screen …

• Writing workshop

On the Instagram account @amours_solitaires, where she has been publishing anonymous love exchanges by SMS since 2017, Morgane Ortin led, at the beginning of the year, a forty-five minute live writing workshop, always accessible, with the sole instruction of” to be quiet “ and have “12 loose sheets”. These sheets are intended to write 12 letters, in a limited time, addressed to his father, his ex, this “Dear. e you in 10 years ”, or its complex. “An instinctive and spontaneous exercise to express what we deeply feel to the people who inhabit our life, underlines the young woman. It’s time to put it all down on paper. “

Live accessible from the @amours_solitaires account, via Instagram.com/p/CJ_2ARWIhCK/?hl=en

• Paint with watercolors

Marie Boudon, artistic entrepreneur behind the Instagram account @tribulationsdemarie, is the initiator of a flatmodern watercolor video lesson form (for a fee). Herself a watercolourist, specialized in floral representation, the young woman produces YouTube tutorials, accessible for free on Instagram, as well as live, to easily acquire, and without any prior drawing basis, the gestures and techniques of watercolor. . Here, the ten bases to choose his material as his subjects, while avoiding beginner’s mistakes; there, all tips for painting in minutes a rose or a branch of eucalyptus. A time of your own to disconnect, and add color to your days.

Tutorials on Instagram.com/tribulationsdemarie/and Youtube.com/c/MarieBoudon.

Drawing hashtag

What if art therapy began by exploring, like a museum’s collections to browse, posts from Instagram accounts united under the hashtag #drawing? This e-gallery has more than 228 million images or videos of techniques and models on which to linger to take to the open sea or draw inspiration: sketches of an Italian palace, sketch of a portrait of a girl, studies of a hand or a hedgehog, painting of a maritime landscape or a floral arrangement. Among these creations of budding or experienced artists are slipped free tutorials devoted to pastel, charcoal, pencil, ballpoint pen or even graphic palette, such as those of @ watercolor.illustrations, of @art_insanely and of @ drawing_art70. But where did the sketchbook go?

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