Week #4: Grow Week
In Week Four, I’m starting from the roots and working upward into action and growth.
Color: Green
Element: Wood
"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself." - Diana Ross
The Green Woman card from the Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan and John Matthews
I think of wood as a medium that shows us how to GROW.
In the San Juan Islands, the madrona tree, with its beautiful red bark, often leans over the edges of cliffs. Roots wrap around stones, branches bypass obstacles - all on their goal for nourishment - sunlight, air, water, and earth.
The growth systems of Nature (with a capital N) are full of lessons for us humans, and I’m trying to use them whenever I can:
The Luminous Tree, Charles Burchfield
Here’s a photo I took during the full solar eclipse 2017 on San Juan Island.
Light does such amazing things!
Let’s Grow Together!
I’m developing a new
small group
coaching program:
Threshold
based on
Nature’s
elemental
forces
& the
color wheel,
to support & transform your creative process!
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Grow Week Inspiration:
Choose a thought to guide your week (this can change, and you can borrow mine!)
Mine for Grow Week was: “I can grow around obstacles”
Spend “Vine Time” with yourself to just let yourself grow at your own speed: Work freely on something new in the studio.
Take a line for a walk (that’s what Paul Klee calls drawing: “taking a line on a walk.” Do some Automatic Writing, and Automatic Drawing of your project. Notice this worked for Week Zero - and Spark Week, Think Week, Flow Week, and Grow Week! (and ALL the weeks!).
AGAIN: Envision your project, this time imagine it growing into itself - what would it look like if it were a living plant, tree, flower? How would it use Nature’s systems?
What would Remedios Varo do? (WWRVD): Be inspired by smart historic art mentors.
Take a coffee break and sit quietly, find calmness. Center and ground yourself, like a tree. We NEED that during Grow Week, too!
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Threshold
Dive deep into your creative work
through my
8 Creative Elements ProcessSet and get to an important creative goal (this could be painting, writing, blog, even marketing! - remember, selling is storytelling!)
Get inspired by Nature & Art History!
We’ll look at a lot of art, including images from the 40 galleries and museums I visited last year, all over Europe.
Bring New Energy to your Creative Process in a supportive, small group setting (no more than 8 people in each cohort)
Episode #24: The Seeds of Your Creative Business
Big 3 Ideas from this episode:
Thoughts are SEEDS that grow into Feelings, Actions, and Results.
What are your thoughts about your art? Do these thoughts help you make more work? Or keep you from creating?
Art Thoughts, Business Thoughts: Any thoughts you can have about your art, you can ALSO have about your business. You can love your business as much as you love your art by making a decision to cultivate thoughts that help you get there.
