My Experience with Color and Healing

Working as an art profesor during the past 20 years I've seen many students come and go through my studio. At first what most caught my eye was the similarities in color between a students work and how he or she dressed. Why do so many students time and time again use the same colors they dress, in their paintings? This question baffled my mind and through time and research I've come to some precise conclusions.

We as humans are made up of energy, color is energy and how we feel directly has alot to do with how we use color. Its as simple as that! Now if we begin working with color with the hopes of balancing moods, the visual arts is just the instrument to use.

Through painting one can regulate the internal themostat that directs us on a day to day basis. How is this done? Through training and alot of work. Our mind has the capacity to find the balance through color without knowing anything about art and its teachings, it might take a bit longer but the job will be done. Daily we choose the color of our hair, clothes, how we'll paint our homes etc., this will have direct impact on our moods.

Can color heal? Yes, it holds no magical solutions, color help us redirect our thoughts to a positive or negative way of thinking. If we end up submerging into the negative, cold, dark side of color only time will tell when something might go wrong either inside or outside ourselves. We can say the oposite for warm, clear and positve colors.

How does this phenomenom work in my studio? Well I do put a little of magic into my classes and do work in an un orthodox way. How it works? It is a mitery but it does. I've seen people change and get better and this has to do with what is hidden in the mixtures of each ones palletes.

A bit of of advice if your feeling low try working without using black. If you use alot of dark clothes clean out your closet and buy clearer ones and if theres little light were you are hug the sun bring more light into your world and let me now do indeed change. This is a good jump start!

Sisto Pascale