Watercolour journaling
I don’t wake up every morning with a brilliant idea to create, with that urgency to put something on paper, there are even long periods in which I only observe and simply rework the life that flows.
It’s not easy for me to leave my watercolours aside for so long and so I have developed a daily practice that helps me on many different levels:
I meet my tools every day, I play with them, I build our unique relationship and learn to know them better
I sit in front of a blank sheet without expectations (a great achievement for me)
I don’t think during the whole process, it’s a kind of meditation (since with all other styles of meditation I have miserably failed and ended up falling asleep in every place and pose possible)
Watercolour journaling
My practice to find peace and balance.
It happens that I focus for several days in a row on one color scheme and then change radically. I use this approach when I have new colors on my hands, which I’ve never tried and whose reaction to water, paper and myself I don’t yet know!
In the photo above, for example, I tried some super granulated colors and a special edition that "by chance" arrived at my house!
The mind is fantastic
we exploit it and fill it with so many thoughts that sometimes it gets in our way. When you let it rest, wonders come out!
There are no pencil marks underneath and in reality there is no idea, no expectation, there is the blank sheet and the mind trying to be inspired by the whiteness of cotton paper.
In the drawings above I started with a shaded line, its curves and colors, then they guided me and made flowers bloom. I like to look up from my work and be amazed by it.
The mind is amazing, and it’s when we let it be that wonders come out of it.
To share this practice, which is fantastic for me, I decided to organize a series of workshops that I titled Mindful Watercolour, I’m more than happy to held them abroad!
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