2020 has been a problem for many people.
To assist move time this summer season, and construct supportive connections with fellow survivors, I organized a web based paint occasion. I really like artwork and discover portray and making stained glass and different such initiatives therapeutic. I used to be craving socialization, so I had the concept to mix artwork remedy with socializing and sought out a non-public group to assist organize an expert paint occasion.
It was simply my luck {that a} native nipple tattoo artist identified in my city shares a enterprise together with her associate, during which they have been providing reside wine and paint events earlier than COVID-19 entered into our lives. Being unable to tattoo through the lockdown, the women moved their enterprise thought on-line and started internet hosting paint events together with transport out paint packages for youngsters, adults and their households. Evidently, they have been open to my thought of internet hosting a non-public paint occasion for myself and a bunch of fellow most cancers survivors.
The occasion was enjoyable and therapeutic. The theme for the portray was a butterfly, because of the thought of transformation as these of us who participated have been breast most cancers survivors. They supplied the entire provides to anybody in want, and the template to get us began with our creation primarily based on a typical theme. The undertaking was personalised with our including any ribbons correspondent to the colours of most cancers we have been recognized with, and perhaps needed so as to add.
My portray adopted a suggestion for colours we got in our paint equipment and it was outlined in a blue. The blue represented to me assist and lightweight blue is the colour for prostate most cancers, which my husband was recognized with final yr. Whereas I might have by no means requested for a most cancers prognosis, I’ve not regretted what I gained from the expertise—the friendship and camaraderie of a number of fellow most cancers survivors.
Collectively, we study to chortle, cry if wanted and assist each other when experiencing all of the steps to our most cancers journey. The group I painted with was began by a stunning fellow survivor, Patricia, who started Hyperlink of Hope Sista’s after her personal breast most cancers journey. As for the 2 pretty artists who ran our occasion, Artwork for Good Paint Events continues to supply on-line portray and Suzanne is gratefully again to the unbelievable work she gives as a Skilled Nipple Tattoo artist in Miami.
Collectively, we discovered a solution to assist each other throughout one more journey which was COVID-19. My completed artwork piece, which I’ve submitted for consideration for the 2021 Cure Hues of Color Contest, is entitled Journey Reworked. Perhaps the lesson in life is we get the chance to develop from our experiences and a few of the most troublesome can result in stunning new beginnings and experiences.
