INTUITIVE * ENERGY ART
Native American Indian Artist: Norval Morrisseua
Article: Systematic Wonder
Article: Einstein on Creative Thinking
Little Known Sketches of Physicist Richard Fenman
Native American Indian Artist: Norval Morrisseua
Article: Systematic Wonder
Article: Einstein on Creative Thinking
Little Known Sketches of Physicist Richard Fenman
Big Idea: A Lesson in opening up. Creating art without thought and drawing what comes intuitively to the mind without intention of a final outcome.
Essential Questions:
Doodling your Feelings:
Intuitive art is a way to create art that is fun and freeing. It is a radical approach to making art. The principal is simple: Ground yourself in awareness, ease, and let your inner source guide you. Who cares how you mark up a page, as long as your marks are created from your inner-self awareness. Authenticity and personal clarity is the fundamental driving force in intuitive art.
Intuitive drawings begin as simple doodles that become more eloquent in their expression as you practice. Intuitive drawing is a process by which you tune into YOU and do a sketch of the images that you pick up in your mind. It is a visual message from the inner depths of what makes you; YOU. Intuitive drawing is drawing for the surprise and joy of the process and not knowing how each drawing will turn out and how it will speak to you.
Automatism (and surreal movement) Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒmətɪz(ə)m
By creating intuitive drawings you will:
I challenge you to 30 days of intuitive drawing every day. Go buy a sketchbook and put pen to paper - one drawing for each of the 30 days. If you get insights as you draw, write your notes right on the drawing. Your drawings will look different than mine - allow your own innate creative style to emerge. At the end of 30 days you will find the essence of your own original expression that comes completely from inside of you.
1. Sit in a comfortable position with a set of colored pencils or crayons and paper next to you. Close your eyes first. Let go of any chatter in the mind and find a moment of silence. Allow your mind to be as blank as your sheet of paper. Taking continuous deep breaths allows for the mind to grow still. Focus on nothing other than a place of emptiness. Just be. Stillness is what you are looking for. You can create your own mantra or simple meditation to help you.
2. Begin to draw something, anything, while keeping that empty clear mind. (Opening your eyes is optional at this point). Draw the nature of your day, a memory from before, trace your hand and go from there. It doesn't matter the subject. If you are not sure what to draw, just begin making movements with your pencil and let the pencil lead you.
3. Continue to find that space in your mind as you draw. Don't look too hard at what you are drawing. It helps to look away from time to time, even as your hand is moving. Do not grow attached to what you are drawing. Simply move continuously, without stopping. If you pause, 9 times out of 10 you are thinking. And we want to curb the thinking, as this relates purely to the ego.
4. Practice to draw from a space of emptiness and non-attachment regularly. This takes out the control factor. Your pencil will begin to move before your thoughts do, and, with practice, your drawing will draw itself.
Trusting our intuition can definitely bring a lot of beneficial results! It's the combination of combining meditation with art. The output reflects the inner core of the painter.
Essential Questions:
- How would you describe energy?
- How might the ability to create authenticity and personal clarity a fundamental driving force in intuitive art and how can it be related to real world applications in the 21st century?
Doodling your Feelings:
Intuitive art is a way to create art that is fun and freeing. It is a radical approach to making art. The principal is simple: Ground yourself in awareness, ease, and let your inner source guide you. Who cares how you mark up a page, as long as your marks are created from your inner-self awareness. Authenticity and personal clarity is the fundamental driving force in intuitive art.
Intuitive drawings begin as simple doodles that become more eloquent in their expression as you practice. Intuitive drawing is a process by which you tune into YOU and do a sketch of the images that you pick up in your mind. It is a visual message from the inner depths of what makes you; YOU. Intuitive drawing is drawing for the surprise and joy of the process and not knowing how each drawing will turn out and how it will speak to you.
Automatism (and surreal movement) Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒmətɪz(ə)m
- the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention
- [an action performed unconsciously or involuntarily
- Art the avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations.
- Origin: mid 19th century: from French automatisme, from automate 'automaton', from Greek automatos 'acting of itself'
By creating intuitive drawings you will:
- Increase artistic confidence through movement and expression.
- Be surprised by the changes that spontaneously occur in your drawing style.
- Understand how emotions are evoked by elements such as color, line, tone, form, etc.
- Change negative thought patterns.
- Unlock questions and discover answers.
- Get comfortable trusting your intuition.
- Be able to execute problem solving quicker and gain self-esteem.
- Be surprised by what you draw as it may not be what you set out to draw.
- Notice your ability to see and capture what you see in your mind.
- May experience a lack of consciousness of the process.
- Begin to experience a calm or peace when drawing.
- Find reoccurring images again and again.
- Find out aspects and personality traits about yourself that you unaware of and want to explore more in depth and share with others.
I challenge you to 30 days of intuitive drawing every day. Go buy a sketchbook and put pen to paper - one drawing for each of the 30 days. If you get insights as you draw, write your notes right on the drawing. Your drawings will look different than mine - allow your own innate creative style to emerge. At the end of 30 days you will find the essence of your own original expression that comes completely from inside of you.
1. Sit in a comfortable position with a set of colored pencils or crayons and paper next to you. Close your eyes first. Let go of any chatter in the mind and find a moment of silence. Allow your mind to be as blank as your sheet of paper. Taking continuous deep breaths allows for the mind to grow still. Focus on nothing other than a place of emptiness. Just be. Stillness is what you are looking for. You can create your own mantra or simple meditation to help you.
2. Begin to draw something, anything, while keeping that empty clear mind. (Opening your eyes is optional at this point). Draw the nature of your day, a memory from before, trace your hand and go from there. It doesn't matter the subject. If you are not sure what to draw, just begin making movements with your pencil and let the pencil lead you.
3. Continue to find that space in your mind as you draw. Don't look too hard at what you are drawing. It helps to look away from time to time, even as your hand is moving. Do not grow attached to what you are drawing. Simply move continuously, without stopping. If you pause, 9 times out of 10 you are thinking. And we want to curb the thinking, as this relates purely to the ego.
4. Practice to draw from a space of emptiness and non-attachment regularly. This takes out the control factor. Your pencil will begin to move before your thoughts do, and, with practice, your drawing will draw itself.
Trusting our intuition can definitely bring a lot of beneficial results! It's the combination of combining meditation with art. The output reflects the inner core of the painter.