My partner Emily and I knew we wanted to use acrylic paints for our lesson. Our assigned mental illness we researched was bipolar disorder and we wanted the people doing this lesson to feel relaxed and free to express themselves using, different colors, paints and patterns. We chose rock painting because it also can be a lot less stressful than being handed a blank canvas being told " paint how you feel". So a rock can be very personal and it's not like people have to compare or compete with there rocks. It was also much more economic than buying canvas that way everyone can take home and paint a rock of there own. It was a huge success and every single person that painted a rock loved it and said that they either used to paint rocks as a kid so it was nostalgic or it was very clever and relaxing. Many people found it de-stressing and really enjoyed getting to take the time out of there busy lives to just paint a rock and take your mind off everything else that might be stressing. I learned a lot in this project about mental illness when we did the case reports, creative stories and packets for exhibition. My creative story was about a boy with bipolar disorder that was also a sucisde attempt survivor after his dad passed away. He is an adrenaline junkie guy who competes in competitive sports tournaments such as the X games and he is happy when he has those near death experience kind of adrenaline. That is why the story cover I created is of a guy cliff jumping into the ocean at sunset. The story overall ends up becoming happy where there is a light at the end and a lot of foreshadowing throughout the short story. I am extremely happy with how this project turned out and I learned so much. One of my favorite projects we have done all year and I am so grateful I got a chance to have my own voice and input and opinions be heard and applied during this project and exhibition.