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Healing Watercolor Readings - Earthsong's 31st Summer Festival

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HEALING WATERCOLOR READINGS Earthsong Books and Gifts 31st Annual Summer Festival   July 12th and 14th (Sat & Sun) 10am-5pm 2215 Kennedy Rd, Janesville, WI 53545 Phone: (608) 754-3933   Under the tents on the grounds of Earthsong Author and artist Tia Richardson will offer healing watercolor readings, art prints and copies of her book 'Caring All Around Me' and its accompanying Workbook.   A little background: When I first started doing portraits one of the things I used to do was what I called 'Soul Portraits'. That was where I intuitively connected to a persons soul and create an abstract representation of what it looked like in my vision, with a mini-reading to help them connect. This time I'll be trying something new, using a technique I've done before with groups for self-discovery. In that exercise, people are doing their own watercolor painting, without judgement as to a right or wrong way to do it, its just about noticing wh...

Painting With Harmony

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 By Tia Richardson Life is your canvas. What do you want to paint on it? Maybe you already feel it is too late to create what you want. Maybe what is there doesn’t feel like a fit. Or, maybe you feel like you have no choice in what is painted there. What if you COULD start to create something different in your life? Something more – harmonious? Did you ever think you could open up to new possibilities of what your life could be? Let’s imagine you can! After all your life is your canvas, and art can be anything you wish it to be. Let’s take a journey painting a watercolor of harmony. Your paintbrush will be your imagination. Imagine yourself walking down a narrow dirt path through a forest. The earth under your feet feels dry and solid. Next to the path green grass grows all around, wildflowers springing up; native plants growing in groups. Looking up, you see the bright blue sky overhead. As your eyes look up and over to the left you see the bright golden ...