Wax Resist Paintings

Gameli

March has finally arrived and the huge Touch A Life team will be here this weekend!!!  This is going to be an amazing and busy month with the finishing of the Art Center and the TAL dedication.  All of the families who have built the dorms and buildings at the TAL Care Center in honor of their child who pasted away will be joining us for the dedication.  We are all so thankful for the Deal family (Connor’s Song), Art Feeds, and the design team who envisioned this Art Center and who are working so hard to make such a special place for the children.  Over the past several months, the children and I have been in an empty Legos building with only the bare necessities like plastic tables, chairs and some art supplies.  But in just a couple weeks we will have a fully supplied and creatively designed Art Center with many resources. 

The Art Center is a place where the children can have a therapeutic environment to express themselves and continue to heal through the process of creating art.  For children who have been trafficked and have been through the trauma of abuse and abandonment, art can be a creative outlet where kids, like Gameli and Jacob, can experience healing.  Through drawing, painting, sculpture, and many other mediums, the children are able to find their voice through art and express themselves in pictures when words may be difficult to find.  As the children get lost in the process of creating, many of them become still and quiet; thus, allowing their pictures and the images they create communicate their thoughts and feelings.

Benjamin

Each child is unique with a different story to tell.  That story may have started out ok but it took a dark turn when they were abandoned and sold into slavery.  Now free, each child has the opportunity to dream big because the God of the universe has chosen him or her before the creation of the world for a specific purpose.  The kids now are free to discover that purpose and know that they have a hopeful future.

Take a look at the beautiful wax resist paintings the children did last month.  They chose to draw their favorite creature with crayons and got creative with various patterns on their creature.  Afterwards, they did a watercolor wash over the crayons, which resisted the paint, and voila…a colorful masterpiece just waiting to be framed and hung up in the Art Center gallery once it is finished!

Wisdom

Moses

Jacob

Bernard

William

Benedicta