Who would have thought that painting with watercolour would have meditating impact? Watercolour meditation is a yogic use of water and colour. It is used to express the self via different watercolor meditation techniques. With watercolour meditation, one can trigger new strategies for change via the discovery of new resources and sometimes, even a deep complexity of yourself.
Every step involved in the water colour leads to clarity and openness. We all know that each of the Chakras have their own colours. With help of watercolor meditation, you are better able to understand the chakras, their energy.
It is a complete relaxation technique. You just take some watercolors and take a wet sheet of paper. Make some strokes, and you will see what happens. You don’t have to be an artist to do that. Just relax and let the colours speak and connect to you. When you begin to do it more frequently, you would notice how transforming a blank sheet of paper into a splash of colors. Colors have the ability to affect your mood and emotions. Artists use color to express their thoughts and emotions too. It could lift your spirits or act as means for your deepest and darkest emotions. But more than that, watercolour uses color to bring you peace, tranquility, and the pure, simple joy of color.
Miracles can happen when you meditate colors. You would see how it opens your heart and makes you more open and embracing to everything that is around. Each color happens to have its own special healing vibrational frequencies. When you paint with the intention you will feel yourself getting transformed.
Why Watercolour?
It is pretty simple. You don’t even have to have any prior experience of watercolour painting.
The reason this mode of painting is chosen for meditation is the free flow. Watercolours flow freely with colour and water. That is why it is the ideal medium you could use to maintian a healthy well-being and create balance. Both the water and colours flow freely, yet together at the same time, they mingle and create gorgeous splashed of colour that reflect your deepest emotions or help you connect with your deepest emotions. Watercolour meditation also helps in relieving stress and keeps you from burning out. Here at, (COMPANY NAME), we will teach you through demonstration and hands-on practice how you can use watercolour as a form of meditation. You just have to take some time for yourself and find ways to incorporate this into your daily life.
How to do watercolour painting?
We will guide you and teach you some easy and practical tools regarding watercolour meditation. With our guidance, you would be able to create a fully inspired artistic expression. The water and colour merge and restore a balance, promote wholeness, and a sense of release.
Usually, in watercolour meditation, four techniques are used and then later on inner work is applied to them which are related to chakras along with the meaning of color, both vibrational and emotional. Using colors for meditative purposes would help in triggering new strategies to bring change in oneself.
You could try a few of these:
• Washes:
Select the colors of fresh waters. Blues, greens, and violet hues. You could create a waterfall of washes. Paint a row of solid colors on the top of your sheet. These blocks are a symbol of any of the problems or tensions you might be facing. Then slowly, add water. As you add water to the paint block, the colors would begin to flow down the same way water flows down in a waterfall.
You could think of them as your troubles washing away. This isn’t necessary. It could be something you could try but you can also simply enjoy the color as your create a colorful waterfall. It is not about what you are painting, but how the colors make you feel and what runs in your mind when you do so.
• The Transition of Positive into Negative:
For this, you have to start with a clean paper sheet. Leave the center of the sheet empty. No colour. Leave it white. Think of this area as a problem you could make it big or small whichever you like. You can even give a shape to it a flower or any other white shape. Now, think of the shape as your problem and paint around it. This would help you in making a negative edge. When that edge dries, start the color flow. The edge would keep the color from flowing into the white space. If you have been obsessing over a problem for nothing, and want it to disappear, then you could make that white area disappear by painting it.
The colors surrounding the area could be all the positive things going on in your life and around the problem. Making this could help you focus on the positive aspects of your life.
• Washes:
Select the colors of fresh waters. Blues, greens, and violet hues. You could create a waterfall of washes. Paint a row of solid colors on the top of your sheet. These blocks are a symbol of any of the problems or tensions you might be facing. Then slowly, add water. As you add water to the paint block, the colors would begin to flow down the same way water flows down in a waterfall.
You could think of them as your troubles washing away. This isn’t necessary. It could be something you could try but you can also simply enjoy the color as your create a colorful waterfall. It is not about what you are painting, but how the colors make you feel and what runs in your mind when you do so.
• The Transition of Positive into Negative:
For this, you have to start with a clean paper sheet. Leave the center of the sheet empty. No colour. Leave it white. Think of this area as a problem you could make it big or small whichever you like. You can even give a shape to it a flower or any other white shape. Now, think of the shape as your problem and paint around it. This would help you in making a negative edge. When that edge dries, start the color flow. The edge would keep the color from flowing into the white space. If you have been obsessing over a problem for nothing, and want it to disappear, then you could make that white area disappear by painting it.
The colors surrounding the area could be all the positive things going on in your life and around the problem. Making this could help you focus on the positive aspects of your life.
• A Controlled Colour Flow:
You could take help from the previous exercise. Take a new sheet and choose your favorite color from the exercise done before. First, wet the paper. You can control the flow of the color. You know exactly where the color should go.
Now touch the color to the wet paper. See the colors bursting wherever you want them. Focus on your innermost emotions as you see the colors running. You could experiment. Drop more water on the top and draw the color out and paint the dry areas. You can add more colors as well. Try abstract patterns. And focus on the movement of your arms.
Last, remember, you don’t have to worry about how it turns out. This isn’t some competition. Its all about letting out all your energies in the form of colors and see the gorgeous patterns.
You could take help from the previous exercise. Take a new sheet and choose your favorite color from the exercise done before. First, wet the paper. You can control the flow of the color. You know exactly where the color should go.
Now touch the color to the wet paper. See the colors bursting wherever you want them. Focus on your innermost emotions as you see the colors running. You could experiment. Drop more water on the top and draw the color out and paint the dry areas. You can add more colors as well. Try abstract patterns. And focus on the movement of your arms.
Last, remember, you don’t have to worry about how it turns out. This isn’t some competition. Its all about letting out all your energies in the form of colors and see the gorgeous patterns.
