Over there, to the side of this post, is the result of my first exercise. It looks like a jumble of vaguely circular lines all running around with no purpose. I think it was supposed to look like that.
The exercise was, as my son's pretty girlfriend informed me, "your standard blind drawing." Yepper, that's what it was. With some really good information included. Of course the book didn't just say: "Go make a blind drawing". The authors explained the purpose of the exercise and gave some parameters.
Apparently it takes a good bit of time for your right brain to click in. You know, it's like your stomach. No matter what you eat, your stomach doesn't send your brain a message that you ate it for something like 20 minutes. So if you wolf all your food your brain says "Hey, Babe, keep on eating...you haven't taken a bite yet!" That's why one of the perennial "secrets" of dieting is to eat slowly. Chew each little bite a long, long time.
And that's how this blind drawing was supposed to be. I was supposed to take a specific length of time to draw a grouping of fruit. It was a long time. A very, very long time. I didn't make it.
My drawing was done. All the lines were drawn. I hadn't looked yet, but I could tell from where my eyes were that I had covered all the bases. So I did it again. And again. The next two didn't look so good. They are little, scrunched things that look like the lines are trying to hide down in one corner. Probably ashamed of having been drawn so quickly.
I don't know if my right brain kicked in. Maybe it did. Maybe my left brain had a panic attack and told it to back off and go away. Maybe my right brain told my left brain to shut up and then got to work really fast. Because I've always been able to work fast. I swear I drew all the lines. I kept the drawing out of sight the whole time. I was not careful. I was not thoughtful, I was ... feelingful and intuitive. Really
Okay, that's out of the way. Now I can get on to something important.
I'm beginning to sense that this may be a bit of an uphill battle.
Comp and Color Exercise 1
Can you tell the mango from the banana?
Self Portrait
The Real Me
2 comments:
I tried it twice and both times I kinda like the picture I got, with bananas, a bunch of grapes, and a round fruit in a vase. Is that right?
I've never tried that. Very interesting. However, I like the whole premise of your blog--the "right" brained quilter. I think quilting may be about one of two things that my right has a lot of say in.
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