Color of Woman Journals

Creative Inspiration

You truly are an inspiration to me! I'm in the process of working on the workbook I got and I just can't get enough of it.
- Carmelina Huerta-Grant

A wonder creative sanctuary designed to inspire a spiritual journal. Filled with 30 beautiful images, each of which holds the image of woman as Creator. 120 thick pages, so almost any medium can be used. A space to play, dream, heal, pray and create. I was so excited I wanted to jump right in and color. – Feminist Bookstore News

Shiloh is a woman of great faith and rich insight. Her work offers a very useful tool to help us on our path. – Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?

 Awakening the Artist

Shiloh McCloud is a fiercely committed warrior of the spirit. She and her work are illuminated, inspired and of the highest integrity. The Cosmic Cowgirls are revolutionary paradigm shifters and my work with Shiloh and The Cosmic Cowgirls has been immensely energizing, rewarding and awakening. My highest recommendation goes to Shiloh McCloud and The Cosmic Cowgirls!

Growing up, my creative expression was not always appreciated and encouraged. My own beliefs about this have held me back from really being the artist I long to be. This mentorship has taught me what a price my soul has paid for denying the creative energy that flows so freely through me.

My intention this morning is to rid myself of these old beliefs that do not serve me. I want to clear them away to make room for what will come. What a blessing to be here. Thank you for all that you have taught me and for being so generous with your heart.  -Tamara Empero, Leading A Legendary Life On-Line Course

Using her own images and words, Shiloh inspires us to find our own voice, the artist that lives within. This work encourages us to live out loud! - Rose Offner, Journal to the Soul & Journal for the Soul of Teenagers

Our search for the divine feminine begins in our own lives. Color of Woman Journals will escort you to the deep places within you…She will be found there. – Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me, Be Full of Yourself and Imagine A Woman

I bought "Her Evolution" as a gift for Christmas! She is going to love it. Two friends and I bought our "Her Evolution" journals over the summer in your Mendocino gallery. I have been having so much fun pasting lots of wonderful things into mine. I was just describing to my boyfriend how it feels to be keeping a sacred record of myself. It feels, for me, similar to that excitement when all of my friends from high school sign your yearbook with sweet words at the end of senior year. But, now the sweetness is from me and for me! I love writing, scrap booking and creating art with positive intentions for myself, my soul. This practice in "Her Evolution" has caused a major shift in my journey of worthiness and self-love. Thank you for being such a contribution to my life. Your words and art is breathtaking. Much gratitude, loving and trusting. - Megan O'Brien, Cafe Gratitude

Healing and Transformation

 First I want to share that I am in love with my journal!!! It is a deep and amazing space for me to process, heal, collect precious "heart speak" from old journals and create imagery with materials I haven't used before! What a gift this work you do is!!! - Carmit Bat-Shalom, Musician

I am writing to you to thank you for your amazing journal/coloring book, Her Evolution. I got it as a gift from my mother, and have spent the last 6 months using it to process and reflect upon all the changes that have recently occurred in my life.
My husband is currently serving in the military over in Iraq, and we moved to Jacksonville, NC back in February with just enough time to find an apartment and then say goodbye. My whole family is in California, so when my husband left, I felt so many emotions and had nothing to do but cry and pray for his safe return.
My mom gave me your book as a gift, and from the first stroke of colored pencil on the first page I chose to work on, I honestly felt a sense of my emotions being released onto the page. I brought the book back with me to North Carolina, where I began a nightly tradition of coloring and listening to music. The black and white pages started to fill with color, and  my once worried mind became clear as I told my story on paper. I included poems, quotes, song lyrics, and bible verses to the pages, and created a sort of memoir that documented the transformation from a woman who was worried and lonely, to one who now has more faith, hope, and light than I did before my husband left.
I hope my story inspires you to continue creating such wonderful art, and that I have reminded you that you are touching the lives of more people than you know. My mother is so intuitive and she always knows what my soul is needing - and I am so grateful that she gave me your book. My husband will be home in 14 days, and I am so excited to show him the artwork I created in your book. But i am especially proud to show him the strong, positive, faithful woman I have become while he was gone. Thank you again, and may God bless you in all your adventures.  - Kelly Crittenden

I love your frankness of your journey in the journals that you have created.  I think it helps release many women of the shame that they might feel because of the struggle that they go thru.  I also believe that your journals help women put words to what they are experiencing on their inner journey & then thru the art can emerge thru the pain & the grief that they hold so deep inside. Thank you Thank you Thank you for the incredible work that you do. - Anon

Artwork and Commissions

Emotional Responses to Shiloh's artwork

My name is Jimmy and I recently purchased your "Eye on the World." Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for creating such a beautiful piece of art. I could go on forever about it, but I'll be brief.  Amazing.  Someday I hope to meet you and ask you a few questions about the piece.  There is so much to it.  I have always enjoyed art and I hoped someday to own a piece, and this is my first original. Anyway, thanks again.
- Jimmy, Northern California

I came across your amazing artwork by noticing the beautiful cover of the Feb. '09 Natural Awakenings magazing.  Soon after, I searched your website and viewed an interview of you on youtube. I am beyond impressed with your immense talent, your love of art, your passion for helping people through creativity, and simply your kind and peaceful presence! - M.D., New York

Re Originals: How wonderful!!! My husband was so taken by this painting that he couldn't stop thinking about it. It is very unusual for him to have such a strong reaction to art, so we knew She was important and needed to come home with us. I am familiar with your other works and books; it was such an honor to be in your gallery. - Kimberly Cress

To truly love you must open yourself to all of lifes pleasures and disappointments. Without both of these emotions life is meaningless. In the "Generous Soul" I see a woman who has lived and carries that wisdom in her heart. The piece is perfect in more ways then you will ever know. Thank you for the inspiration to live, as one should, completely alive and compassionate in nature. I promise to live my life as a reflection of this piece. - Christine Gilb

I am learning on a daily basis how if I am willing & open to going into the depths of my feelings & experiences, that I emerge on the other side more solid, more whole, more at peace.  Your work personifies that & I thank you for that.  Your work has been a part of this process of discovery for me.  Your work resonates down into my soul.  As it has with a dear friend of mine. - Anon

Gallery Experiences

I walked into the gallery where your pieces were hung and I have never in my life been moved by art until that moment. I have heard people talk about how pieces of art move them and I had always hoped I would experience this.....and I have with your work. THANK YOU!! -L. Woodward

Inspiration to other artists

Just a happy note to let you know how much I enjoyed your web page. My friend recently visited and viewed your work in Mendocino and said she couldn't wait to tell me all about it. My personal art style is very similar to yours. When I visited your web page I was moved by the beautiful colors and whimsical strokes that seem to illuminate from your work. Because art is a healing outlet for me I felt a lot of emotion when viewing your pieces. The spirituality in your art shines like a beacon offering strength and hope and everything else that seems to reassure women. As a 25 year old female, struggling to find myself and some meaning in a sometimes very critical world, it's art like yours that helps keep my heart full of love... for myself and for others. Thank you for sharing your gift to the world. Small things with great love seem to have a beautiful ripple effect.  - Melissa

Teaching and Workshops

Leading a Legendary Life

I have loved this course so much, and feel so blessed that you are willing to continue. I have WAY more gratitude for your beautiful heart and for the way that you honor the sacred in the art process than I can ever fully express. And I have WAY more gratitude than I can ever express for the way that this course has brought back a part of me that I had cut off years ago, and that I desperately needed back to complete the me I know I am meant to be.. These last 6 months have.done just that. I have my creative self back, and I will never ignore her again! - JENNY JONES

Dearest Shiloh of my heart, Thank you for making this class available to us. Your vision and your hard work are changing my life. When I wrote my Chonicles, I had no idea that my life had been leading somewhere. It wasn't until I put it all down that I saw that my spirit had been there all the time. Through thick and thin, I was there. Thank you for that gift. Thank you for teaching me how to paint and especially how to paint with my heart. You have been so generous to share your talent and your methods. I am proud to be a Cosmic Cowgirl and forever grateful for our connection. - love, Nancy               

Healing and Transformation

I would like to begin by saying, thank you for an incredible two days of creative and spiritual painting. I would not have imagined that after just two days of working with you, I would've created artwork that I am so happy with and tells a part of my personal story. At the beginning, I had no idea how I would translate my story into painting, but as we spent time together I slowly shared my personal story with you. I had no idea that on the second day I would translate parts of that story into art. Because of your excellent listening skills you were able to take an important aspect of my story and help me express it through my work. Later, as I sat in front of my painting, other symbols began to pop into my mind regarding other aspects of my story. I know I would not have been able to do this, had it not been for your initial guidance. You are an excellent guide and easy to work with. You made a creative environment that was safe for me to experiment in, make mistakes, ask questions and learn. When I did feel stress, you reminded me to breathe and have fun. You taught me that painting was prayer. I better understand how art is healing because of your guidance. I am truly grateful for the time you spent with me. All the best - Pranita

Shiloh McCloud is an exquisite artist, a great teacher, and a healer. In four hours she was able to heal 40 years of emotional wounding that kept me from painting. Her process is amazing. She draws out the spirit within and guides you in expressing your inner most knowing. Since studying with her I have painted on a regular basis and much to my surprise my work has been exhibited purchased, understood and enjoyed by others. The time you spend with Shiloh is worth every minute of it. Do yourself a favor and pick up that paintbrush. - Chief Luisah Teish, Author Artist

I feel my spirit has broken wide open and the light can now shine in and out.  It was a transformative weekend.  I learned more about painting in one weekend than I have in years of art classes. - Dakota Mitchell

Somewhere in the recent past I went to Shiloh’s Woman of Vision Workshop.  She’s offering them through the support of Cosmic Cowgirls Ink--a woman and girl owned publishing house that will collaborate to create workbooks (ala shiloh style coloring books for all the issues that face women and girls where having a journal/friend/guided process might be useful.  At any rate, i took her woman of vision workshop and in this workshop, Shiloh, in her very adept, welcoming, ritual manner invited us all to circle.  There were twenty of us in the ring--holding the Alice Walker blessed red furry stuff and passing it from woman to woman--connecting us.  And then, in the most joyous act of generosity and kindness, Shiloh invited us to cut that part of the string that we held from the whole--and blessed us with this knowledge:  though we are all holding the string of womanhood, that which we have cut from the circle is all that we are responsible for.  I don’t know if you can feel through the words I’m typing how incredibly powerful that very practical moment was for me--but it was profoundly freeing.  I am responsible for that which i can cut from the bolt.  I make my dress.  I wear my red string tied to my wrist.  I know I am connected to the others in my circle, in my ever widening world, but that which I am responsible for is only that length of the yarn tied around my own arm.  this--this is extraordinary focusing freedom.  This gives me access to something I can do.  And then, throughout the dance of the day, we gathered, we talked, we dreamt, we created, we painted and pondered and wrote and shared and feasted and celebrated with great rush of celebration.  And she guided us with paint and clarity through the making of our own vision statements.  She guided us through eight panels of our vision book, and asked us to answer in color and painted words who we are? what we care about? what we have to share? who we choose to be paid by? who we want collaborate with? steps to take on the path? quantifying the desire to create? and what are we creating? She’s interested in helping women get on with it--actually causing the activation of our enflamed hearts and moving us out, powerfully, into the true blessing of doing the creative work we are called to.  It was an extraordinary day, an extraordinary set of exercises, a tremendous opportunity to be in the room, go through the process and enjoy the unfolding dream.and so it continues to unfold. Buy a book!   Elizabeth Benson-Udom www.lulu.com/writressworder

I had the absolute pleasure of doing a weekend-long art workshop/retreat with Shiloh a few years ago.  I am not exaggerating when I say that it completely transformed my life.  I not only painted for the first time in my adult life, but found a creative outlet which has become a vital part of my spiritual/sacred practice.  Most importantly, the ideas expressed, the women with whom I connected and bonded, the creative energy and wise words of Shiloh, all planted a seed that ultimately led to my leaving a career with which I was unsatisfied, and finding a life-work. Through the workshop, Shiloh has become a close friend, mentor, confidant and teacher, who has inspired me-and so many others-through her passion, creativity, beauty and drive.  The education and experiences I acquired that weekend have proven to be so much more valuable than all of the books I’ve read, classes and workshops I’ve taken, and counselors and others I’ve seen-in helping me to discover my passion and create my vision.  I am so thrilled Shiloh will be coming to Denver and Soulrise to share her wisdom! - Heidi Damata, Soulrise Gallery, Owner

The workshop I did with Shiloh was life changing. For years I have wanted to explore areas in my life that would allow me to work with my passions, and be compensated for doing the things I love. What I lacked was a plan and direction. Through the use of a workbook she designed, and by attending her class, I now have the tools to make some of the dreams I have held for so long come to fruition. I want to take refresher courses with her each year, just to keep me on the right path!" Fayletta Guilian, Artist

Shiloh’s course has altered the course of my life. Her inspiration, her warm encouragement and skilled instruction were instrumental in the realization that my life is being an artist. She continues to be supportive and helpful even though I live 1000 miles from her. - Connie Chapman

Creating Sacred Space

Just wanted to let you know what a fabulous time I had at the painting class on Sat!!!!!! Really remarkable experience- thank you for your presence and generosity of spirit and commitment to our having a great time and ending up with a terrific outcome. You were right I do love my wild woman painting.  I have also been spreading the word to many friends – Thank you again! - Maya Dincin

 Thank you Shiloh so much for the painting class!  I feel like I really learned a lot in one day.  I really hope I am able to do more classes in the future.  I feel like you have given me some really useful "tools" to begin my journey of painting and expressing my creative soul. I really appreciate your time and I appreciate you and your beautiful art. Thank you for being you, and thank you for your inspiration. The world is truly a more beautiful place because you are in it! Sincerely, and with love - Andi Crane

 Thank you so much for providing such a sacred space where not only I can feel safe to paint but I am also encouraged to go within my own self and feel safe to explore the dark places - the places that block the light and keep me from opening up completely to creativity.  What you do is such a great service to women and to humanity.  Thank you with all my heart. - Libby

My painting is such a blessing. Thank you for showing how to invoke her. I wanted you to know that the workshop does not end after we leave. I so appreciate you allowing me to take the class, thank you for the energy, spirit and love that you put into the class and thank you for the use of your anointed art supplies. No words for this level of gratitude. - Kim Walker

Shiloh brings more than skill and mastery to the classroom; she establishes an environment of beauty, mystery, and personal vision that is invitational to student transformation. Repeatedly, students describe having found within themselves a confidence, self-esteem and artfulness they did not know they had, from Shiloh’s classes.  I have witnessed students (and faculty as well) with no prior painting experience, produce credible paintings in one single class with her.  Judy Grahn, Co-Director, Women's Spirituality Program, New College of California

Encouraging New Possibilities

Store Owner:  I just wanted to let you know how wonderful it was to meet you. I was truly moved by meeting you!  Interestingly enough, I hadn't taken the plastic off of my journal that I purchased at Milk & Honey last month. I did the other night! I am just blown away! I had considered cancelling that part of the order, since books have just sat on my shelves in the past. Not now! I am giving one to my best friend & have turned her on to your website. And I know this is the link that other clients of mine need. The grace at which you share your innermost thoughts & journey & then open others to theirs is amazing! There is just a way that you reach right into a woman's soul thru your words & thru your art. I found a perfect place for "Our Lady of Faith" in my home. The energy that emanates from her just absolutely blows me away. Your mystical presence helped me to connect even deeper into mine! Your work & your heart & soul are amazing. Thank you for sharing that with me.  - Cyndee Green, A Touch of Green

Wow, I really hope that you get this email.  I am writing to thank you for many things. Let me seek to be clear and concise in this message... Your work has meant so much to me, has given me beauty, courage and vision.  Participating in your Heart of The Visionary workshop led me to create a beautiful piece of art that displays MY vision - I am SO proud of this piece of art! And your message on "Every woman is the Queen of Her Own Heart" spoke so profoundly to me that I included it as the foundation for my "Queen Circle" that I have just began (of course giving credit to you in sharing this piece).  I am so thankful to know you, to have several pieces of your art work for my home and to have spent a day with you.  Thank you so much. In much gratitude ~Stephanie C.