INTUITIVE * ENERGY ART
Native American Indian Artist: Norval Morrisseua
Article: Systematic Wonder
Article: Einstein on Creative Thinking
Little Known Sketches of Physicist Richard Fenman
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Einstein
Big Idea: A Lesson in opening up. Creating art without thought and drawing what comes intuitively to the mind.
Essential Questions:
Key Knowledge and understanding:
Students will:
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.
Magnet Theme Connections:
How do I know when I’m finished? (GOALS)
When I’m finished I can:
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:
The Intuitive Drawing Challenge:
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.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Einstein
Big Idea: A Lesson in opening up. Creating art without thought and drawing what comes intuitively to the mind.
Essential Questions:
- How would you describe energy?
- What does the significance of drawing in an intuitive nature have to do with other disciplines?
- 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?
- What might the energy movement of today recognize from artists of yesterday?
Key Knowledge and understanding:
- Students will utilize fantasy and symbolism as a means of expression in works of art.
- The student will use visual memory skills to produce a work of art and Increase artistic confidence through movement and expression.
- The student will identify the components of an artist’s style, including materials, design, methods, and subject matter. Artists: Salvidore Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Miro, Energy Artist Julia, H.L. Groen, Joesph Dinunzio, Victor Preato, Chor Boogie, Peter OBrien, Norval Morrisseau
Students will:
- Draw blindfolded and without intention of a final outcome
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.
Magnet Theme Connections:
- There is a wildly important aspect of science that embraces intuition and imagination.
- The question "What is energy?" is difficult to answer in a simple and intuitive way, although energy can be rigorously defined in theoretical physics. In the words of American theoretical physicist Richard Fenyman, who is known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge what energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount."
- We march through the world armed with intuition and rationality to conquer the unknown, the two in near-constant friction in a culture that frames them as opposing forces. We turn to science and the scientific method as the ultimate bastion of rationality in our quest for Truth. But science isn't merely reason, science is culture. It’s a poetic and practical sense-making mechanism for the universe and our place in it, the totality of whose machinery is greater than the sum of its logical parts.
- In traditional Chinese culture, qì (also chi or ch'i) is an active principle forming part of any living thing. Qi is frequently translated as "life energy", "life force", or "energy flow". Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts. The literal translation of "qi" is "breath", "air", or "gas" and is also considered a form of magic. Concepts similar to qi can be found in many cultures, for example, prana in Vedantic philosophy, mana in Hawaiian culture, lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, and Vital energy in Western philosophy. Some elements of qi can be understood in the term energy when used by writers and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine. Elements of the qi concept can also be found in Western popular culture, for example: "The Force" in Star Wars. Notions in the West of energeia, élan vital, or "vitalism" are purported to be similar.
How do I know when I’m finished? (GOALS)
- Demonstrates good use of line quality
- Demonstrates merging colors
- Demonstrates movement
When I’m finished I can:
- Complete performance rubric and reflection
- Challenge yourself to create another version of this assignment
- Free draw, independent study
- Silent reading
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.
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.
The Intuitive Drawing Challenge:
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.