Imagery and color is the primary language of the psyche. Painting for process - without pre-planning helps you to recover your authentic self. When you paint for process you need to let go of all your prior conceptions of what art is. Expressive painting does not require years of training or technical skill. Your expression evolves as you find your own unique expression. The aim is to enjoy the process and to turn off your critical mind and see what comes out.

All forms of spontaneous creativity help you to accept and integrate all parts of yourself. In spontaneous painting we do not go for a pretty product but rather stay truthful during the process and take risks to let something new and unknown to emerge.

A simple way to begin painting for process is to buy yourself some watercolor paints and a watercolor pad and begin splashing around. Watercolor and pencil crayons can be used to add detail. See of you can commit to one watercolor sketch per day for 30 days to get your self-expression moving.

"I did an aquarell painting every day, very easy-going, not judging myself and from the beginning there came out very surprising things, which I would never have painted  normally. I am a part time artist and often feel often blocked and then I give up hope about the quality of my art .

Doing these expression paintings, freed me to do whatever comes up in me and I sense that that also helps me to get unblocked in my other artwork.
I will start with “a painting a day “ for 1 year now and your 30 days program was the initiation!!"

Christiane Lohmann - Hamburg, Germany