My husband, life and business partner in all things creative, Tim Lajoie, has been writing more and more these days and this post is written by him. I’m so enjoying how his wise perspective is contributing to the conversation about this powerful expressive arts process. When I was younger yellow was my favorite color. It wasn’t my favorite color because I particularly liked the color yellow. It was my favorite color because it had the power to blend the other colors together. I loved making transitions and gradients. I would spend hours making curved snaky swirls that blended between soothing blues, to brilliant light greens, to pure hot yellow, to warm inviting orange, and deep passionate reds. As a child I didn’t realize that there are a lot of colors and shades that can do this so in my box of 16 thin cheap plastic felt tip markers with the caps that always seemed to get lost, yellow was the one color to rule them all. As a result, my yellow pen tips were always stained and discolored. But I didn’t let that stop me from creating these gorgeous blends that unified the entire color palette and made a continuum […]