Go Mad, Have a Colour Adventure!
You may have hated 'art' at school but spending some time with your inner child can generate amazing results. Leave black and white behind, at least for today!
I may be a bit weird, (don’t all answer at once) but I really love coloured pencils. Just looking at them gives me pleasure. In many of my courses and one to one work, I encourage participants to inject a bit of colour into their lives. It’s not art work as such, just another way of looking at things. Doing things differently now and again generates a different result.
If you’re ever feeling a bit stuck, got a problem you can’t solve, or are just generally listless, disregard any old *head spam messages about being artistic or not, and just get doodling! I have a fbaulous new pack of fine art crayons and I can’t wait to use them. I feel like a schoolgirl on first day of term- I can even smell the leather of my old satchel! (OK, that may be a bit weird…)
Let your crayons and your thoughts wander where they may. No one’s watching.
RenewYou is a one day personal development course I’ve written specially for women. I may even have used coloured crayons.. For an event near you, click here.
*head spam = unwanted messages that pop into your thoughts unbidden and are usually rubbish that stop you getting on with life!
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I've been watching the way my kids fight over pens, pencils & crayons (to be honest, they fight over everything - my daughter can start a fight with a mirror) - their sheer delight at having something new, cool, funky or just different to write with. RenewYou reminded me all about the fun of this, as well as the serious point about tapping into cross-brain activity, something that as a trainer I knew about but had filed away under "quite interesting" at the back of my mind. I've resolved to bin the boring biros on my desk and start collecting funky, scented, spangly and plain bonkers things that make me smile when I write. Who knows where that will lead...
I'm with you on that, what's quite funny about what Jane said and school, is that we had two forms at school. The A class did Latin and the B class got to do art and craft. I was in the B class and had so much fun with tie die, making candles, watercolour on silk, pottery, calligraphy etc. To this day my shear joy is definitely pens, crayons, lots of colours. As a trainer I probably don't use them enough and RenewYou certainly reignited the importance and fun of using these tools. As some of my courses are of a more serious nature I think it's quite easy to forget how useful they can be. Away from the work, my current project is making a plant pot with shells that I collected from the beach in the Highlands. Here's to everything creative :)