Once we’ve made contact with each other and you have given me your permission to connect with your Spirit Guide, my work can begin.

I enter a meditative state, in my beautiful work area, with calm music. After some deep breathing and settling in, I am able to see into the subtle realms and your Guide will make contact with me. I will say hello and thank your Guide for coming to speak to us. It usually goes a little like the old days of photo development where the facial features come into my vision slowly and gradually. I receive the Guides’ communications as impressions and images in my mind’s eye, and also colours, music and sometimes I feel quite strong emotions. Sometimes a name comes immediately, sometimes it only comes later on. I will then select the colours that have been in the impression and commence the artwork.

It takes a few hours to complete the artwork by hand and during this time, a lot of information comes through from your Guide, while I am painting and drawing. I write everything down on a piece of paper. There are usually lots of images accompanying the verbal impressions and I do my best to interpret the images into words to convey the message to you. It is therefore important that I maintain my own being in the purest state that I can, as it is the conduit and canvas for the messages.

Once the portrait artwork is complete, I then type up, on my laptop, all the information and messages that had come through while I was creating the art. The written reading may include some advice or recommendations, or further steps to take on a certain matter in question. I then prepare the artwork to send to you, print out the written reading and send it off to you. 100% free of any AI generated anything – everything is hand-made by a human – myself – just for you.

To note: I can create the artwork on physical paper or I can create it in digital format using physical paper, photographing the artwork and combining it with drawing on my iPad. A physical drawing naturally will need to be sent via mail, and a digital artwork can be emailed. Sending a physical drawing to a location in Spain or anywhere in Europe is easy. However, sending a physical drawing to the United Kingdom, the United States or pretty much anywhere else in the world involves relatively high cost and paperwork in the form of custom declarations and the like. You may have to pay additional taxes on the parcel when it arrives in your country. For this reason, I recommend that if you are outside the European Union, you elect to have the artwork and reading sent to you in digital format. You can then have it printed on your end and frame it nicely. If you definitely want the physical artwork mailed to you in your country, I can advise on the additional costs.

You will receive an original, hand-drawn portrait and a text-based message from your Guide.

The portrait is created with a variety of media and depicts the likeness of your Spirit Guide. The size of the artwork is A5 – 105mm(w) x 148mm(h). The physical drawing it is mounted on an A4 backing board with a border / mounting board so you can pop it into an A4 frame of your choice on it’s arrival by mail. Should you select the digital format, you will receive the drawing in JPG format in high quality print-ready resolution so you can have it printed and frame it.

If you have selected to have the physical portrait, you will receive the written part of the reading printed and inserted into an envelope for you to keep safe and read when you please. If you have selected the receive your reading and portrait via email, you will receive the text reading in PDF format.

When you feel called to book a Spirit Guide Portrait with me, the first thing to do is book the reading in on my scheduling page. You will be required to make payment to have yourself added on to the list. By making payment, we both know that you are serious about going through with the reading and all things can start aligning for successful contact with your Guide.

You will be asked to complete some information on a form such as your email address and your phone number so that I can contact you. Should you wish to receive your artwork and reading to your physical address, I will need that too. Should you wish to receive the artwork and reading solely via email, you don’t need to supply your address.

When I receive your booking on my side, I will send an email to you to say hello and make contact with you. Ideally I would like to have just a brief conversation with you, either via email, text chat or a video call – just to make a connection with you. During our conversation, you may want to give me explicit permission to connect with your Spirit Guides to ensure an open channel. Should you have any specific areas of interest or questions you would like to ask, now is the time for us to discuss them so that I can bring them into the reading space with me. Not all questions are suitable questions. I will advise you during our meeting and provide guidance if necessary. If you don’t have any specific questions, that is OK – you can just leave everything to me.

It has happened in the past that someone would request a reading on the behalf of someone else, perhaps as a gift. If you were looking to order a Spirit Guide Portrait as a gift for someone else, I would ask you to get their enthusiastic consent beforehand. The message will have the most impact if it is desired. In such a case where you are ordering a portrait and reading for someone else, please kindly supply a photograph of their face, so that I can see especially their eyes clearly.

Now that we have all the admin and paperwork out of the way, my work can begin. From my meditative and connected place, I connect with the Spirit Guide that is most important for you, at the present moment. I see the Guide and we have a conversation, much like one would converse with a human person. I can ask questions and receive answers. Using my art materials, I create a completely original and unique artwork showing the colours and distinguishing features of your Spirit Guide. While I am working on the art work, more messages and information comes through and I write all of it down. When the art work is complete, I type up the entire conversation with your Guide and all the messages I received.

When it is a physical drawing, I package it with a white mounting board and firm backing board attached so that it may travel safely to you via mail or courier. I print out the reading, pop it into an envelope to insert with the artwork. So the artwork and reading arrive as a set, and the artwork is ready to pop into an A4 frame that you will chooses on your side.

If you have chosen to receive the artwork and reading in digital format, I send you the portrait in a high resolution, high quality JPG, and the reading in PDF format to you – all via email.

I create the artwork on A5 size. That is approximately 148(w) x 210(h)mm or 5.83″ x 8.27″.
I mount this on an A4 mounting board – that is 210(w) x 297(h) or 8.27″ x 11.69″.
The reading is printed on A4 paper.

For digital formats, the artwork is supplied at 3508 x 4961 pixels at 300dpi – print quality resolution for up to an A3 print (or smaller).

Furthermore, for devices like your phone, laptop, desktop or SmartTV background, I can supply the artwork to you at the correct size and resolution. Please ask me about it if you are interested.

No. From start to finish, my process is completely hand-made, hand-written and created by me in accordance to what your Guide is telling me and showing me. At no point is any artificial intelligence used. The artwork is created specifically for you by my hands and never sourced off the internet or created by artificial intelligence image creators.

Ask away 🙂 I am here to discuss any questions you may have. Please send me an email to cari (at) starmintaka (dot) com or you can complete this little form here. Feel free to ask anything you like or that you would like to discuss.