July's Colour Pop Competition

🦋 INTRODUCING: COLOUR POP: our first-ever MyClearLight competition!

Grab your pencils, pull out your gel pens, raid your kid's crayon box!! It's time to get colourful.

Here's a confession: colouring in takes me straight back to my childhood. No deadlines, no inbox, no "getting it right" - just colour, focus, and that quiet, happy hum in your brain while you fill in the lines. Turns out that feeling has a name: colouring in is genuinely therapeutic. It's a form of mindfulness. It slows your breathing, quiets the mental chatter, and gets you into a flow state without ever having to sit cross-legged on a cushion. Cheap therapy, no appointment necessary.

So for our very first Colour Pop, I am giving you something with a bit more meaning behind it than just pretty lines.

Meet this month's artwork: a woman with a butterfly "mask."

I chose her for two reasons. A butterfly is the ultimate symbol of metamorphosis. Nobody becomes who they are without a little time in the cocoon first. And a mask? We all wear one. The face we show the world isn't always the one going through the transformation underneath.

So as you colour her in, sit with two questions:

🦋 What's the change you're making in your life right now?

🎭 What's the mask you're wearing?

Let your colours answer for you. Moody and midnight blue? Bright and defiant orange? Soft, healing pastels? There's no right or wrong here.

HOW TO PLAY:

1️⃣ Download the attached picture below

2️⃣ Colour it in. Use any medium, any style, any vibe

3️⃣ Once you're happy with it, snap a photo and attach it in the comments of this post

KEY DATES:

🗳️ Voting opens: 30 July (submit your entry before then)

🏆 Winner announced: 1 August

I cannot wait to see how each of you interprets her. Let's fill this thread with colour.