It’s important to consider the impact of making ‘mistakes’ and how it can benefit a client to experience making mistakes, accepting mistakes, reframing mistakes, and even problems solving these mistakes so the artwork can be adapted. The ability to undo an error or make changes in digital media can be viewed as a benefit over using physical art products. Easy to share client artwork to client files.

Using digital media, such as tablet devices and software such as Procreate, can be introduced by the art therapist based on the familiarity that each client has with technology.ĭigital media has many benefits over physical art media:

For those people who use technology heavily during their everyday life, the use of digital media in therapy may feel a natural progression. It’s also important to acknowledge that as the general population ages, clients who begin to come through our practice will show themselves to be more adept and reliant on digital media. Photography and film have also formed an important part of the landscape of creativity where the process of image creation and manipulation is mainly supported by the tool, instead of the tools playing a large part in the process. However, not all art therapy has focused solely on the use of physical art materials. The entire process is contained within the digital device and therefore the client is not able to fully appreciate the sensory experience of how art materials interact. This lack of physicality can be viewed as a limitation to using a digital program for creating art. One of the benefits of using art materials is in the physical and sensory process that is activated by using these materials.

Digital art therapy is a relatively new concept in art therapy.

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