Chrysalis Instructions
Brainstorm your, chrysalis think about all the things you would like to change about your life or yourself, put those things in your chrysalis. Maybe you would like to travel more or be more financially stable or improve your self in some way. How can you symbolize these things in your chrysalis.
Make your chrysalis, you can draw it or cut it out of a magazine to form a collage or even sculpt it in some way. Think about color meaning in your chrysalis, below are some ideas to get you started. keep in mind color is subjunctive and can mean what ever you want these are just a few common themes colors are associated with,
- Red is the color of energy, passion, action, ambition and determination.
- Orange is the color of social communication and optimism.
- yellow is the color of the mind and the intellect. It is optimistic and cheerful.
- Green is the color of balance and growth. It can mean both self-reliance.
- Blue is the color of trust and peace. It can suggest loyalty and integrity.
- Indigo is the color of intuition. In the meaning of colors it can mean idealism.
- Purple is the color of the imagination. It can be creative and individual or immature and impractical.
- Turquoise is communication and clarity of mind. It can also be impractical and idealistic.
- Pink is unconditional love and nurturing..
- Magenta is a color of universal harmony and emotional balance.
- Brown is a friendly yet serious, down-to-earth color that relates to security, protection, comfort
- Gray is the color of compromise - being neither black nor white, it is the transitional, new
- Silver has a feminine energy; it is related to the moon,it is fluid, emotional, sensitive and mysterious.
- Gold is the color of success, achievement and triumph. Associated with abundance
- White is color at its most complete and pure, the color of perfection.
- Black is the color of the hidden, the secretive and the unknown, creating an air of mystery. It keeps things bottled up inside, hidden from the world.
Add some background to your chrysalis. Chrysalises are formed by caterpillars and caterpillars need things to eat and places to keep them safe. You can create a garden or a forest or container to house your chrysalis. Think about plant meanings
- Aloe: Healing, protection, affection
- Aspen: family
- Black-eyed Susan: Justice
- Carnation: Alas for my poor heart
- Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness
- Clover, white: Think of me
- Crocus, spring: Youthful gladness
- Daffodil: Regard
- Daisy: Innocence, hope
- Fern: Sincerity
- Forget-me-not: Forget-me-not
- Geranium, oak-leaved: True friendship
- Holly: Hope
- Hollyhock: Ambition
- Honeysuckle: Bonds of love
- Hyacinth: Constancy of love, fertility
- Iris: A message
- Ivy: Friendship, continuity
- Lavender: Devotion, virtue
- Lilac: Joy of youth
- Lily-of-the-valley: Sweetness
- Mint: Virtue
- Morning glory: Affection
- Oak: Strength
- Pansy: Thoughts
- Pine: Humility
- Poppy, red: Consolation
- Rose, red: Love, desire
- Rosemary: Remembrance
- Sage: Wisdom, immortality
- Sweet pea: Pleasures
- Sweet William: Gallantry
- Tulip, red: Declaration of love
- Violet: Loyalty, devotion, faithfulness
- Willow: Sadness
- Zinnia: Thoughts of absent friends
Do a before and after shot. Draw your Caterpillar before it creates its chrysalis and emerges as a butterfly. Do some research on caterpillars and their Butterfly/ Moth counter parts, are they common or uncommon? you can do a specific pair or make one up once again think about color symbolism what were you like before and what are you like now.
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