Today I am sharing with you a flick through of my colour reference book.
I love to swatch- it is a great way to get to know your materials and playing with colour is just so relaxing and beautiful.However having samples scattered throughout many sketchbooks and bits of paper meant that they were never easy to lay my hands on when I needed to refer back to them.
So, this sketchbook junkie decided to dedicate a sketchbook purely to swatching out my colours. Take a peek and see how I do it.
I'm over the moon that after two intense years of creating, the
"Color Archetype" book is finally on Amazon!!
Exactly four years ago, my first book "Layers of Meaning" came out!
The book was a great success both in Israel and abroad... and brought to many women the magic of the seven elements of the visual journal.
The elements are: intention, ,magical coincidence, background, image, color, text and line. Over the past years I realized how deep the elements are and how much they influence our lives. Out of the seven elements it turned out that color, image and text are the three elements that really allow the magic to happen.
Following the investigation and the prolonged work in the my journal, the annual course was born - the Color Archetypes, which led an in-depth process of working on colors, archetypes and intuitive writing.
Over 200 women have participated in the Color Archetypes course in recent years and allowed a new method to be born.
Thanks to these special women and thanks to the power of the archetypal work in color combination - my second book was born - Color Archetypes
The book was published a few weeks ago on Amazon and is waiting to reach everyone who loves color and wants to explore the archetypes that accompany our lives through colors.
But above all, the real quality of the book lies in the works of art you can see in it - created by myself and my students and the inspiration to start your own art based on the processes that are suggested on the book.
These works of art enable frequencies of healing and inner connection to a deep creation.
This is a spectacular art book that combines inspiration for nine development and creation lessons using the "SoulPages" method while focusing on the journey we went through during our childhood and the archetypes that influence our lives.
Rakefet Hadar
How can this book help you? ( from the back cover of the book)
You will discover the healing properties of your inner color wheel.
The act of making art is a therapeutic process that can help you communicate and visualize your own unique path towards happiness. However, just as there are many roads to the same destination, no one can tell you what your roadmap to happiness looks like. You have to paint it first.
A companion to Rakefet Hadar’s Layers of Meaning method, Color Archetypes is a one-of-a-kind art therapy guide and workbook for both patients and therapists. Using its fresh and colorful prompts, you too can create your own visual “roadmap” at any given moment while understanding the emotions associated with different colors.
In this book, you will find:
Exercises in transformation and healing – and how to use self-expression as a driving force for change.
An in-depth look into the world of color archetypes – explanations and lessons on harnessing the healing powers of colors while working on your own visual journal.
The ability to understand and control your emotions – use colors as a medium to communicate and unravel your thoughts and desires.
A great way to handle anxiety, stress, self-esteem issues, trauma, and self-doubt.
Enter the illustrious world of color archetypes and paint your way to a better, happier, and more fulfilling life.
Rakefet tells about the process of writing the book:
I'm very moved to talk about books, especially visual books. Those that you can touch, caress, look at pictures and get inspired. These are the kind of books I've always dreamed of creating – books that will convey the message I want to convey. That's why in this blog post I want to share with you a little bit of the process I went through in writing my books.
The process of writing a book is mysterious, exciting, frightening, overwhelming. It's a process that is like a long pregnancy and very parallel in many ways to raising a child. Even after the book is published, it must be grown and nurtured so that it reaches as many people in the world as possible, so that people can receive the "gifts" inherent in it.
How do you start the process?
For every writer it starts differently, I can tell you how it is with me.
I am a person of theories and ideas; I have an endless need to understand my inner world And in order to understand internal processes, feelings, thoughts, behaviors, I look for tools that will help me. Tools that can heal some of the pain I carry inside me.
Over the years I have come across many theories and methods, but the three tools that helped me the most were: “Shamanic” journeys, working with inner archetypes and working with art materials (colors). Each of these tools is a whole world, but together they are powerful and allow for great healing.
The idea of putting all these tools together and creating a method that is original began to emerge in me in 2018 after I took a channeling course. The sense that the connection between color and archetypes has enormous power was reinforced when I visited Damanhur in 2019. On this trip, I experienced a sense of elation when I saw how an entire community lived around creativity and embraced the idea of working with inner archetypes.
I started writing ideas and theories and when I returned to Israel I started a course of working in the visual Journal with colors and archetypes. The course was a success and created magical works of art by over 70 students. Working in the course helped me understand the method that developed and I started writing the book. I actually couldn't have written the book without my students who helped me understand the enormous power of working with color. Over the past few years, I also thought the course in English and gained additional knowledge regarding color and archetypes.
Working on the book helped me refine the method and create a deep 8-part process in which each of the unique colors of our childhood map can be discovered. In fact, a tool has been created here that is both diagnostic and allows each of us to look at our creations and understand our inner energies.
What makes me happy?
What do my relationships with other people look like?
How much energy do they take away from me?
What nourishes me and allows me to grow and develop?
After writing the theory, the stage of selecting artworks began. My wonderful editor and I had the challenge of choosing from 70 artists the works to include in the book. It was important for me to show that this process is suitable for everyone – so I wanted a variety of works by women who really went through an internal process and were able to make a change.
The editor of my book is an amazing artist in her own right and has the ability to "dream" the book so that it reaches the different clients and influences them. It was important for both of us to convey the process clearly and simply – so that anyone who buys the book can start working with the powerful tools that it offers .
We've spent months working on simplicity and cleanliness of ideas and how to articulate them on the page so people just start creating. In fact, a book has been created here that is a complete course.
I hope you enjoy and connect to the ideas in this book!!
“Here's another quick walkthru with some of my very first journals.
I wanted you to see a progression of my "hand" or style.
This happens when you sit down day after day in your art practice.
And truthfully it doesn't take a long time to begin to see what works and what doesn't work for you. I don't really think there is a work around for "seat time". If there is one let me in on the secret lol.
And let me say this...I heard a saying that basically "discipline numbs the mind but devotion liberates it". I do look at my daily pages as my devotion, my meditation, my "me" time. I use that time to find out what I need to know about my truth in the moment.
I'm not interested in pretty... although that can be a huge bonus lol...
I'm interested in authenticity.
If you are interested in using this method to create a practice, I hope you'll join us.”
Fonda Clark Haight
I was cleaning some computer files and came across this video of two of my journals in old books. So the question is this...what happens if you journal for 30 days in a row? or 60? or 90? This right here is what happens.
You begin to see a story emerge, your truths and concerns and challenges. Not only in your life but in your art too. Yeah but what's it for? It's for you....just for you....ALL for you. This is creation for yourself with no worries over outcome, a container for you to just be you. Slap it down on the page...use it as a container and learn from it...or not lol. Pretty, ugly, sad, happy, angry, questioning.....come as you are to this place. Is this so called "fine art"? No. (although truthfully I don't even know what is fine art so there's that) Is this my art that is precious? YES. There is something about loving up on what IS in your art and your life too....giving yourself grace....that changes the world. And that is priceless, at least for me...especially now.
They say anything you do for 30 days becomes a habit. I know that's true. I hope you'll join me in creating a habit for yourself.
Pam’s new workshop, Still Life Playground, begins on the 24th of April.
Still Life Playground is a mixed media course to help to develop your own unique approach to still life art.
This workshop consists of a number of projects to develop your drawing skills, experiment with techniques and styles, and to listen to your heart, all designed to lead you to discover your own unique style and approach to Still Life painting. The projects are playful and encourage experimentation and exploration.
Pam’s new workshop, Still Life Playground, begins on the 24th of April.
Still Life Playground is a mixed media course to help to develop your own unique approach to still life art.
This workshop consists of a number of projects to develop your drawing skills, experiment with techniques and styles, and to listen to your heart, all designed to lead you to discover your own unique style and approach to Still Life painting. The projects are playful and encourage experimentation and exploration.
Enjoy the replay of the Seven Secrets to activate your Dreaming Child below:
Explore Rakefet’s book HERE
The next session of The Dreaming Child Within begins on the 6th of March 23
