Just Drawing

This is an exercise, where the unconscious and conscious mind is unified by the activity of drawing.

The movement of the whole body makes the line, the non-dominant hand holds the pen and just follows like a supporter.  This exercise can be done with closed or open eyes . The pen never leaves the page,  every line is connected with the whole drawing. The line can be considered as  a walking dot, has no goal and enyoys simply just walking. ( Paul Klee calls it an active line on a walk, moving freely, a walk for the walk’s sake)  The dominant hand now creates an image by coloring areas closed by two intersecting lines or just simply adds lines to finish the drawing (shown in the face below).  Colors and areas are based solely on intuition. At the end of this exercise, the creation gets a name.

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