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I even scribbled on a note pad, “I am not your dear friend.” When she immediately started out addressing viewers as “my dear friend”, my hackles went up. Honestly, I didn’t care for the speaker.Would I recommend that you do the same? Yes, with a few caveats. The site offers training - no idea of the cost - but there is also a free online class to help you gain multidimensional clarity and connection. You know me. There is, however, a color sheet and a meditative process you can go through to determine what colors mean to you - and to your own higher self. It’s a bit like dream interpretation, I suppose, except that there are no standard guidebooks telling you how to de-code your drawings. Your higher self can speak to you through your drawings. Here you can learn to create simple art that brings messages from your intuition to your conscious awareness. It was at a site called, appropriately enough, Intuitive Art. And here is where I found my higher self - or at least the concept of my higher self. I’ve painted along with music, I’ve learned to experience art as a form of meditation, and even so, I still wonder if I understand anything about intuitive art. I quickly discovered I was not good at that sort of intuitive painting. I felt a bit lost, unsure of how to express thoughts and feelings. ![]() My efforts to turn those splotches of color into something called art often fall short of my vision.Īt other times, I’ve tried doing abstracts from intuition, the idea being to simply take a blank canvas, grab a brush and a variety of colors and to paint what I feel. I can’t always act upon what I see and feel, though. When I have random shapes and colors on the canvas, I can often see things and feel things. Intuitively, I wanted a little more light, a slightly more airy feeling to the painting. Garden Fantasy was one such intuitive painting. In this photo, I’ve lightened the colors just a bit with an editing program. It is a helpful practice, though, and I would encourage every artist - no matter the skill level - to sometimes play around with random shapes and colors and see what emerges. I’ve done it with ink and I’ve done it using splotches of acrylics on canvases. ![]() Instead of working through the exercise precisely as intended, I thought of ways I’ve previously applied this principle in my own artwork. Essentially the idea is to find and/or create visual meaning in random shapes and splotches of tea. The suggested exercise for that week involves used teabags, and since I don’t drink tea, I couldn’t follow along exactly as directed. I performed a few mental calculations and ended up at Week 22: Recognizing Intuition. These correspond to the seasons of the year. Wilson’s book is divided into four gateways toward the creative process. I’m already set for “ A Year in Art” so why not incorporate Wilson’s ideas, as well? ![]() I know I have a creative soul, and as far as I know it’s already wide awake, but still I loved the thought of exploring new creative possibilities through a week-by-week journey. After making that post, I said “Oh, why not?” and I bought the Kindle version. The book had been sitting on my “want-to-read” list for quite some time. ![]() In a recent post, I mentioned Awakening Your Creative Soulby Sandra Duran Wilson. It can mean using our intuition as a guide for creating art it can also mean using art as a guide to understanding ourselves, a way of communicating with a higher self, a part of our being that is connected to the divine. Intuitive art, I have learned, means two very different things.
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