Blooming true

First week in Flora Bowley's class

Hi guys! This month I'm taking Flora Bowley's "Bloom True" e-course! Week one is almost over so I thought I'd share a bit of the experience with you!

First, what is this all about? It's about painting (+bonus: living) more intuitively. Flora uses only acrylics but I can already see how what she teaches us would work really well with collage, inks and lots of mixed media techniques. I had loved her book "Brave Intuitive Painting" last year and was ready to learn more. Plus so many friends had been delighted with the course that I was really intrigued and felt it was time to see for myself! Here is a lovely little video showing you what this is all about...

... and a link to Flora's book:

Laly Mille Bloom True with Flora Bowley, creative space

First layer: working with warm colors, moving the paint around, spraying and dripping. At the end I felt like adding this big heart because it is all about painting from the heart. It will probably end up completely covered by the next layers but I'll know it's here and that's what counts!

Laly Mille Bloom True with Flora Bowley, layer 1

And then the second canvas: blindfolded finger-painting while dancing to music, woohoo! That felt awesome. And I was SO suprised at the firy energy whirlwind that just "came out"! I'm not often that bold with color and it really gives me an idea of all that is hiding inside of me and wants to come out... Talk about blooming! The canvas has been sitting on my easel since last Tuesday and I can't help smiling every time I enter the room...

We have done many more inspiring things this week like setting our intentions for the course, what we want it it be for us, how we want to feel:

Laly Mille Bloom True with Flora Bowley, intentions

We have also created a deck of affirming words. I didn't know where to begin with that project and was starting to procrastinate (this is one of my biggest issues) but I surrendered to my intuition and this little voice told me to just grab a pen and write. I filled up the page really fast, no thinking, one word leading to the next very organically and here they are! (I just noticed LOVE is in there twice, well, I guess I know my priorities...)