Comments on: Automatic Drawing–What IS it?

By: Not Starting from Scratch :: Make Great Stuff

Not Starting from Scratch :: Make Great Stuff — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:27:58 +0000

[...] week, I talked about doing automatic drawings as a good 20 Minute activity, and this week, I used one of those drawings as a starter for a new [...]

By: i thank You God for most this amazing :: Make Great Stuff

i thank You God for most this amazing :: Make Great Stuff — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:04:47 +0000

[...] You might not know that e.e. cummings also painted and drew, and was influenced by Surrealism, which I talked about recently in my blog post on Automatic Drawing. [...]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:41:30 +0000

I went to your site to get “unstuck” concerning my new art students that I face in the morning. It worked! I also ordered the book you are using for Expressive Drawing. I am a High School art teacher and lately the students are in zombie mode – so I am hoping some of these techniques will wake them up! Thank you Sarah. I also enjoyed the TED talk.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:14:51 +0000

So glad it resonated! Also funny you should mention the similarities with writing, as my next post (or soon!) is going to be on the wonders of Automatic Writing. And lately I’ve been using writing in the automatic drawing as well, and loving the creative possibilities that it is opening up. The world is our oyster!

By: Corey-Jan

Corey-Jan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:02:48 +0000

Sarah, I love this. I’m a songwriter, playwright and playwriting instructor and this is exactly the kind of stuff I do – both with my own work and with my students. Rituals that force us to shift gears, not worry about product and just create are so simple – yet so powerful.

Some people might think that when the medium is words, as it is for writers, the process is different. It is not. The hardest thing for any artist is to give ourselves permission to get out of our normal train of thought – to jump the track.

Thank you for sharing your insights and ideas – I follow you via Creative Women of Facebook and it’s terrific.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:11:35 +0000

I’ve been doing Shiva Nata for about 6 months now–and I love it!

By: Jan Bush-Wood

Jan Bush-Wood — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:39:55 +0000

Love the Shiva dance by Havi on U tube. It looks really hard to memorize the moves. I’d like to learn. I like the idea !