Splashing Color

I’ve been painting again. Dragging the brushes through the paint to create bright designs of motion and color feeds my soul in the way nothing else does.

For me, it’s a reverie—connecting me to the depths of my Spirit. I paint for no one but myself, the way a young girl’s diary entries are for her and her alone.

Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way recommends writing Artist Pages—three pages every morning to connect with what your soul is trying to say—to awaken the artist within in an uninhibited, safe, protected way.

My paintings are my Artist Pages, the seed from which all my other creations, and especially my writing grows. Painting lets me be more myself, somehow.

For me, painting is playing, having fun, allowing my soul to speak in the languages it knows best—color and emotion. When I paint, I don’t think about what my soul is trying to say, I feel it.

When I create the space to hear what my truest self has to say—and allow her to say it the way she most wants to—everything else seems to go my way.