Creative Fairy Godmother

  Beloveds who are new to our painting community are often a bit nervous  (shakin' in our boots!)  when it's time to do the first glaze! And why not? We're got several layers on the canvas, we may really like what's there -  and now you want me to cover it up??  Ugh! How do we best explain and share the process with these new beloveds? When I took my very first  Muse class  in 2014, I was having a good time with ceremony, visioning, painting and journaling, ... Then Elisabeth told us we were going to paint over our canvas with a  Risky Glaze  - ¿paint over? ¿glaze? Yikes!!  So how do we glaze and why? Applying a glaze, a thin layer of translucent paint, is a great way to integrate what has gone before, and is a key component of our process with Intentional Creativity® It is also a simple way to add  Mothercolour , which brings harmony to the whole painting. APOTHECARY - glaze and biophotons Supplies : Spray bottle, adjusted to mist ...

 Organizing our projects,  ToDos and ideas can be challenging as we move through Color of Woman, and claim out Artist hats. Last April, during our  Artist in Residence 2020 , Shiloh Sophia and her own business coach Amy Ahlers offered a creativity based business class called Dancing Entrepreneur for CoW students, graduates, and women entrepreneurs. While most gals were from our Intentional creativity community, several other creatives joined us. A couple of posts which really caught my eye were of  Karen Dawn 's  Visual Planning system , and I joined her Beta Test group for crafting similar systems of our own!  I love Karen's creative approach to planning! Her  blog  includes some of these teachings! Visual Planning Board My first visual planner is on a foam board left over from a vision board class, and holds my Medicine Basket, an action card from Dancing Entrepreneur, and other cards in pockets.  Who doesn't love these little pockets? The...

 Creating cards is one of my favorite, quick intentional creativity processes! We create cards several times each year in our Red Thread Circles , and make several using simple materials in our 90 minute sessions. I quickly realized if I saved some of my old story process papers, I didn't need to reinvent the wheel each time I offered a story card session! I found a plastic index card file at the Dollar Store that is perfect for my Story Card kit. Process papers and kit My kit contains: Some of my competed story cards Blank cards, with a simple wash background Process papers with the old story on one side, antidote on the other - scribbles, cross outs and all Blank index cards and colorful paper for processing old stories A length of Red Thread Notes for teaching Having examples of several old stories and antidotes streamlines the process. I remember struggling to think of some during that first class! Looking back at my first cards, I discovered some address the same story, and...