Phase two of Soul Art Therapy was trialed on Tuesday, April 1st. Six discharged patients met up with us outside of the hospital setting to go through some formalized art training, and to discuss what they want or need from the program.
The object of an open workshop is to provide former patients of Ndera a place and means to expand their skills. Exhibiting creative skills is a good way to reverse the social stigma associated with mental illness. In time, we hope to enable artists to sell their work!
For our first session, we explored basics of visual art - the color wheel was first and we reviewed primary, secondary and tertiary colors and mixing. Following that, we explored form, detail and light/shading by drawing thumbs. Afterwards, we ended with some fun guided-drawings - a cartoon
face and a stylized lion face. Click "Read More" to see the rest:
Thanks to Claver Haragirimana and Pastor Theogene for their assistance with this session.
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