Touching the Magic

Touching the Magic with art as our vehicle, we enter the inner journey. This is a time to honor, share, and transform our stories. Each of us is moved by the fires and storms of the land and sea, the consuming of homes, and the changing of lives happening around us.

Personal Transformation happens when we go deep within our emotional selves and manifest our Now in color, shape, and form. Here we discover answers to who we are, why we are here now, and where we are headed. Therefore, in Art and life, the combined doing, experiencing, and processing are everything.

Material life is temporal. Shiva comes in and destroys the established patterns, paving the path for new life and growth. This has always been the way of it. How we approach this, our mindset, changes the outcome of our lives.

I find taking risks in art, opens me to new surprising directions. Mixing my own colors is one of my favorite ways to start. From there, just painting it on paper, or canvas if I’m feeling really brave, begins the process. Then it starts to have a life of its own.

Building confidence in expressing art, displaying your inner, authentic, original self, leads to confidence in all areas of life. Art is the way to knowing yourself: self realization.

Touching the Magic especially accelerates when you treat Art as Play. As a result, trying new tools, a new composition style, new colors or media, all open the doors to perception, creativity, and amazing results.

But it’s not about the outcome as much as it is the feelings you have in creating. It’s a timeless place of freedom, curiosity, and experimentation. Most of all, the only hard part is getting yourself to Begin! Begin somewhere to arrive at a place of Being, to trigger intuition and enter the life of an artist.

Get my 8 Composition Styles work sheet over at Pat Gullett Designs. Get inspiration, free art videos, and touch the magic with me over there. Here’s a sample of what you’ll experience.

Let me know how you touch the Magic. What guides you through these shifting, changing times? What is your story and how would you like to transform it? Comment below and let’s get a conversation going. I’d love to know what you think.