
Painting for Brain Health
When I paint, my brain engages in ways I am not used to and it feels invigorating and empowering. As I grasp at ways to put on canvas what my mind's eye imagines, I can almost feel my brain reordering itself to come up with the artistic answers it seeks. This brain painting induced exercise and rewiring, while in my mind, is not just in my imagination. It turns out that my brain really is rebuilding itself to cope with the creative demands of recreating images in pigment. The