What is Intuitive Painting?
Intuitive Painting is a portal to creativity and intuition. Painting with inexpensive materials provides freedom to go big and take risks. Inviting that “anything could come into this painting” and going towards the energy without a predetermined vision are avenues to staying present in the moment.
Rejecting the inner critic’s fears, taboos, and criticisms is an ongoing journey of self-acceptance. Intuitive Painting is soul work that can be a key to unlocking dreams and emotions the conscious mind cannot articulate, speaking through image, shape, and color. Alternatively, the painting process may utterly transcend what the logical left brain can explain, and be simply an energetic, ephemeral experience.
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Intuitive Painting is a portal to creativity and intuition.
Painting this way is an invitation to focus on how you're feeling, and what's going in inside of you while you paint. Explore using image, shape, and color to express yourself without rules. See what speaks to you and through you.
Painting with inexpensive materials provides freedom to go big and take risks.
Intuitive Painting will be very different than any other "art class" you've taken, because the act of being creative is what matters - not what your painting looks like when you finish! Expect to find tempera paint and big sheets of heavy, inviting paper. Some workshops may involve art journaling or collage. It's a space for play and exploration.
Inviting that “anything could come into this painting” and going towards the energy without a predetermined vision are avenues to staying present in the moment.It's a strange thing to consider painting without striving for what’s “pretty” to look at. Our culture puts intense focus on the end product of any activity, on achieving a feeling of accomplishment and success. The practice of Intuitive Painting is to express yourself through paint, and to learn to be present, curious and observant of how you feel during the process.
Rejecting the inner critic’s fears, taboos, and criticisms is an ongoing journey of self-acceptance.Imagine painting something that looks like a wound. What if you painted a unicorn spearing a sparkly pink snake under a rainbow? What if you paint something that looks like a mouth, or an eye, or skull? Intuitive Painting allows our subconscious to bring things to our attention that need to be seen. It’s a process that allows us to explore our limits. Are there things it would take courage to accept? Are there things you’d like to have more of in your life? Intuitive Painting allows us to venture into our shadows and dark places and things we've locked away.
Intuitive Painting is soul work that can be a key to unlocking dreams and emotions the conscious mind cannot articulate, speaking through image, shape, and color. You may find that sometimes it's easy and fun, and your inner child is delighted to get to create something new without expectations. Other days, you may be frustrated or angry and that's ok too. Painting Intuitively doesn't mean striving for zen calm. It's an invitation to be exactly where you need to be, emotionally. It’s a safe space to be present to your full range of emotions.
The act of being creative is what matters - not what your painting looks like when you finish.
