Soothe Your Winter Blues With Vitamin Sea

Jan 2, 2018 | Fine Art, Painting, Places

Soothe your winter blues with relaxing beach art in shades of ocean blue.

Relaxing beach art to banish winter blues and remind you of languishing summer days

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time during the last nine (NINE?!) years, then you’re probably familiar with my posts about goals, or words and phrases of the year. Honestly, I kind of geek out about the beginning of the year. The winter chill is relatively mild in the Pacific Northwest, and I even love the gray skies. While lethargy and laziness tend to haunt me in hot summer months, I’m invigorated by cooler temperatures. But I know that’s not the case for others.

Just Before Dark | dark, moody seascape painting by Melanie Biehle

Just Before Dark | Original Painting Available at Saatchi Art

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Some people, especially younger women, have been diagnosed with a type of clinical depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). While a few may experience this in warmer spring or summer months, SAD symptoms predominately begin in the fall and continue into the winter.  A woman with SAD may feel like her energy has tanked, be extra moody, crave carbohydrates, or feel like hibernating.

You might be thinking, wait, that sounds like me. Well, maybe it is. The difference between having those kinds feelings every so often versus being diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder has to do with how long you’ve been experiencing these feelings and how much they interfere with your daily life.

You can learn more about Seasonal Affective Disorder at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Relaxing beach art that reminds you of that feeling of freedom associated with summer. Even though we’re no longer children running barefoot and free, there’s a sense of being unencumbered. A practice of getting out of your head, or at least trying to, and taking on a slower pace. Endless Summer encapsulates this free feeling of summer through color and light, providing a way to carry that attitude and energy with you even when the days turn gray. A Day at the Beach combines pastel hues and watery blues to create a sense of calming energy – relaxed, easy, slow, light. There’s a happiness to these paintings – not a high/jittery happy, but rather a calm knowing or a deep joy. Gratitude and appreciation. Time nearly stops to create the perfect reset.

At the Beach No. 4 | Original Painting Available at Saatchi Art

VISUAL WHISPERS OF A SUMMER BREEZE

My artwork doesn’t have the healing powers of meditation, light therapy, medication, or exercise. But I hope that seeing the calming ocean will remind you to take good care of yourself during these sensitive times. I’d like these original paintings inspired by the sea to also be a reminder that the days of squishing your toes in warm sand and languishing in the rays of coastal sunshine aren’t as far away as they feel.

Relaxing beach art that reminds you of that feeling of freedom associated with summer. Even though we’re no longer children running barefoot and free, there’s a sense of being unencumbered. A practice of getting out of your head, or at least trying to, and taking on a slower pace. Endless Summer encapsulates this free feeling of summer through color and light, providing a way to carry that attitude and energy with you even when the days turn gray. A Day at the Beach combines pastel hues and watery blues to create a sense of calming energy – relaxed, easy, slow, light. There’s a happiness to these paintings – not a high/jittery happy, but rather a calm knowing or a deep joy. Gratitude and appreciation. Time nearly stops to create the perfect reset.

At the Beach No. 2 | Original Painting Available at Saatchi Art

Relaxing beach art that reminds you of that feeling of freedom associated with summer. Even though we’re no longer children running barefoot and free, there’s a sense of being unencumbered. A practice of getting out of your head, or at least trying to, and taking on a slower pace. Endless Summer encapsulates this free feeling of summer through color and light, providing a way to carry that attitude and energy with you even when the days turn gray. A Day at the Beach combines pastel hues and watery blues to create a sense of calming energy – relaxed, easy, slow, light. There’s a happiness to these paintings – not a high/jittery happy, but rather a calm knowing or a deep joy. Gratitude and appreciation. Time nearly stops to create the perfect reset.

At the Beach No. 5 | Original Painting Available at Saatchi Art

Relaxing beach art that reminds you of that feeling of freedom associated with summer. Even though we’re no longer children running barefoot and free, there’s a sense of being unencumbered. A practice of getting out of your head, or at least trying to, and taking on a slower pace. Endless Summer encapsulates this free feeling of summer through color and light, providing a way to carry that attitude and energy with you even when the days turn gray. A Day at the Beach combines pastel hues and watery blues to create a sense of calming energy – relaxed, easy, slow, light. There’s a happiness to these paintings – not a high/jittery happy, but rather a calm knowing or a deep joy. Gratitude and appreciation. Time nearly stops to create the perfect reset.

At the Beach No. 6 | Original Painting Available at Saatchi Art

A PRESCRIPTION FOR VITAMIN SEA

Pacific Ocean, No. 1 | Canvas Print and More Available at Society6

Endless Summer | Fine Art Print and More at Society6

These Day at the Beach oil paintings from my Endless Summer art series combine pastel hues and watery blues to create a sense of calming energy – relaxed, easy, slow, light. There’s a happiness to these paintings – not a high/jittery happy, but rather a calm knowing or a deep joy. Gratitude and appreciation. Time nearly stops to create the perfect reset.

P.S. If you’re wondering why the hell I’m writing about psychology, it’s all part of my brand-new-for-2018 From Within attitude. I have a masters degree in psychology and a lifelong struggle with anxiety, which I now control with medication and meditation. Mental health education and advocacy is important to me, so sometimes you may see paintings paired with psychology.

 

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