4th Lesson, Layer 4

Analog and abstract

2nd Lesson / Layer 4

Painting Miles of Creative Energy

In my Creatively Fit Coaching Certification course I am making huge strides in the canvas that is my life. The assignment is to paint 10 paintings with the design principles listed below, each on top of the previous canvas. Boy, did I learn detachment from this segment. This exercise is powerful in so many ways. One way is that you realize that if you don’t paint over the old painting/life circumstances you’ll still have the same painting/life circumstances. So I realized that I have to surrender the way the past showed up for me and create a new life by creating change and making different marks.

We normally want to make our painting perfect and we are afraid to make mistakes which makes most of us feel paralyzed in the old ways. Knowing you’re going to paint over the painting anyway, frees you from that fear and paralysis. The thing is that it doesn’t matter if you make the wrong step because you can paint over it in the next layer with different marks/life steps. Your are now living from the right hemisphere of your brain which is where your creativity LIVES. The miracle here is that having this fearless freedom opens you up to your intuition and the universe. Once you make your painting life opens up with brand new opportunities and connections that would not have been able to happen if didn’t reach out to the next layer/level of being your best and highest self.

This segment really brings home how principles of design (listed here) in your art work reflect your current life situation.  CONTRAST - UNITY - BALANCE - PROPORTION - HARMONY - REPETITION - RHYTHM – EMPHASIS. Paintings below are prompts from these principles.

It is really incredible how the assignments in this course help you understand how to make your mark on the canvas that is your life and create the change needed that catapults you into the direction that you desire. Your desire is there because that is the path for you.

To find this path, these are some questions you can ask yourself: who do you want to be? Are you stretching yourself to the frame that is your life or are you reaching for past that frame? What is the thread that weaves itself throughout your life? What is vital to being you? What are you passionate about?

My mission is to express my true and highest self by surrendering fears, thriving in the unknown and connecting with the spirit of unconditional love. I would like to do this by coaching others the spirituality of art and the art of spirituality. A spiritual life has many different brush strokes that create your new reality.

As I become more creatively fit from my daily painting practice I developed stronger creativity muscles which are responsible for creating change on the canvas and in my world. Creativity is changing my world - I want to create such a life that it will be a light to others.

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