Laura Todd Art

21/02/2025

06/02/2025

So what exactly did happen to that little artist inside of us? 🤔
A common answer:
Life happened.
Which is not wrong and for children, life happens entirely on the terms of those who take care of them. I believe that is the VERY essense as to why children so naturally seek creativity…and it is rooted in one very powerful word:
FREEDOM
During our Inner Child Workshop Series, you will be given the ✨freedom✨ to explore and connect to your inner child artist:
During each workshop, we will guide you through a different art therapy practice and provide all the supplies…we’ll even allow you to make a mess out your artwork…and we highly encourage it!

One of the main components of art therapy is to heal what cannot be expressed in words- and how often did we as children feel unheard? That is EXACTLY why we have created these workshops: To speak directly to our inner child to feel seen, heard, and loved.

First workshop is Sunday, Feb 16, 2:00-5:30pm
Follow our event for more info and sign-up!
Link in bio
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“What art therapy is not is something that has strict rules. When someone was young, they may have been told that coloring within the lines was a sign of growth, that maturity meant structure. Unfortunately, this was often bad advice, and not only limited the creative side of the brain but may have worked to turn people off to the creative process. Art therapy works to undo this thinking and open up all sorts of possibilities. It is not uncommon for someone who is scared of, or thinks that they are really bad at art, to realize its healing power once the right materials are given to them for expression.”
- Sage Neuroscience Center

27/01/2025

Building our ideas into a reality!!!
My amazing friend Brenda Carl and I are teaming up to put together a workshop to help others that want to connect, explore, and grow more in love with their inner child. 🙏
It was Mister Rogers who said it best:
“You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind”. 🌱🌸
And that we have!
As we started planning we realized that when it comes to Inner Child Healing, a one and done workshop isn’t enough to receive the information and tools needed for an authentic experience.
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Our Feb. 16 workshop will be the first of a series of monthly sessions to offer the opportunity to go deeper into the different aspects of inner child healing.
Expert guest speakers and teachers in the community who are skilled in their specific areas of healing will be leading practices and sharing knowledge on the areas we divided into the upcoming workshop sessions.
These areas include:
📌 The neuropsychology of our inner child
📌 Breath work and somatic release practices
📌 meditation, visualization, and sound healing
📌 Creative and playful practices to meet with and connect to our inner child
📌 Parenting our inner child
📌 Integrating inner child healing in our relationships with ourselves/others
And more!
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Please add yourself as “interested” if you are truly interested, as we will be sharing more details on what you’ll be in for during our first and future workshops!

15/01/2025

Life Is a Work of Art ✨🎹❤️🎶🎨📷🎭📝

In the Fall I teamed with Indianola Show Choir Director Katie Wanek (one of my dearest friends)
to paint a backdrop for their competition season. Every song was about creativity and self-expression, celebrating colors/differences…we are the painters of our own canvas ✨✨✨
Very cool to see the whole vision come to life this morning at their first competition. Glad I could be in the audience to see it for myself…and do my best to not get all overly sentimental and cry happy tears but I still did a little lol.

27/11/2024

“Heavenly Path” the second painting for the new exhibit at Plymouth church in Des Moines. Each artist was asked to take a verse from Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel” and depict it.
“The Key of David” is the second verse I chose. I asked myself…to where does this key unlock? And was brought back to a clear vision I had in 2017 of The Heavenly Path that God has placed on Earth before His children to take during their lifetime. ✨✨✨
This path that I come back to in my mind often when I’m not stuck on myself and instead, opening my heart to God is full of golden light. Originally, the vision was brought to me during the warmth of Summer into Fall- but as this exhibit goes from now until January, I painted a wintry path leading toward a golden sunset.
Winter can still have warmth. I used to be very against the cold and I even had a plan to escape it each Winter. Now, I have my dog who will love the Livin heck out of Winter so I will be asking God to bring me warmth this Winter.
A life seeking God, is a life experiencing pain, accepting that pain, and getting closer to Him so He can make things new. I take it to God every day a little more than the day before. Blessed.

27/11/2024

“Root of Jesse” a painting I created for my church’s new exhibit based on the verses of “Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel”. The verses are known as The Antiphonies. We were all asked to pick a verse that called to us. I envisioned a glowing orange tree representing The Fruits of The Spirit. Jesse, father of King David was prophesied as descendant of The Savior who would be born and walk The Earth to save it 600 years later.
Jesus through The Holy Spirit, as we open our hearts to Him, activated within us, the fruits of The Spirit. As a look upon my last year, I often remind myself of the verse, “You will know them by their fruits”.
Words and promises are nothing without The Love of God creating Himself within us to do his works and bear his fruit. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🍊🍊🍊🍊✨✨✨✨

25/10/2024

Collab painting with a dear friend, they are an exceptional artist!!! We painted it over a canvas I found at Goodwill that already had the mountains and drips by someone else.
We used spray paint and acrylic and it turned out so dope. Playful painting for the feeling of it is pretty good therapy. 🌸🦋🌱✨🔥
Koda bringing the cute as always 🩷🩷🩷

24/10/2024

Evening walks 💜💜💜💜💜 with my Koda boy!

22/10/2024

It was a great turnout for our watercolor class at the Huxley library!!! 🍁🍂🍃🌾🎨❤️
Thank you so much for all who attended and learned from me, I felt so supported and appreciated by all and was so happy to see all the various colors and creative expressions come through!!!!
Thank you Shirley Kroneman Crippen for connecting me with the opportunity 🩷
Happy painting ✨✨✨
The technology was even a success, we set up my projector and phone on a stand I got a couple years ago to record the painting process!
Looking forward to more opportunities to teach more adult/teen classes 🙂 if you have an idea for a class, I’m open and available because teaching and learning is always a win for all!

19/10/2024

Making the most of Vegas! ✨🦋🌱🔥🩷