On our journey to awareness or to health many bypass the opportunity to create. Having seen the results of folks creating art or crafts with the goal of releasing what is holding them back, I implore you to begin to create. Whatever you choose not only furthers your spiritual growth and healing, it can bring beauty and joy to this world. Try creating for ONE year. It doesn’t matter what you select to do. If you try something and don’t like it. Change the something. Develop a skill and practice no self-criticism. It is about the journey.
Today I have spent two and half years creating watercolor. In the past, I created ceramic art. Yet, what floored me was the journey with watercolor. I drew and painted like a third grader the first six months. Even brush strokes had to be learned from scratch. Thank God for a beautiful teacher who only had words of kindness and encouragement. The class began to repeat by attitude outloud to each other…”It’s only paper!” Many wanted watercolor to copy photos. Along my journey I discovered I was happier capturing the joy, love, spirit. And yes, this extended to the re-painting of a forest of pine trees in the foreground (around 17 inches long in a scene) because I painted them wrong, like stick figures. LOL.
To show you a bit of my journey, let me show something from one year ago and a simple rose study I completed in September 2026.
Here is a photo of another favorite. It was again a study of combining realism and abstraction beyond what the video instructor taught.
BE your JOY for the world, for humanity, for you! Francesca