The Art Of Emotional Processing

Elissa Capelle Vaughn · 2026-03-23T00:00:00Z

This colored pencil illustration, The Art of Emotional Processing, explores the vibrant and difficult brainstorm of confronting emotions, memories, and mental health. Intended to be part of an art therapy game, it captures the often disjointed, fragmented nature of this process.  The image is created in a coloring book style, sketched in pencil first, outlined in ink, and filled in with colored pencil. There is text art featuring words and phrases like feather, weight of memory, starter, fear, chronic, and honey. The image also depicts surreal bees, rainbows on clouds, color stories, band-aids, broken hearts, homework, a yellow brainstorming cloud, fireflies, and a rainbow brick bridge.    © Elissa Capelle Vaughn