Weekly art hour with pencil magic

When doing the figure ground exercise  (see Draw Good Now series if you missed the instruction during the classes - but if you are new, it will be reviewed on gorebaggtv - just let me know in the chat)  there are many ways to do the 'scribble' and we will be using large, medium and small scribbles. It does not matter that much, what matters more is whether or not you will scribble across the border you drew initially.

You will see it when trying to shade in - and remember, just 1 (one) shade of grey for this one, the figure ground exercise) - tip: it is a lot easier to "see" the figure when there is no touching or overlapping with the border.

All enclosed spaces get shaded - except the ones touching the border - and that can be tricky when you went over it. There is NOTHING wrong with drawing over the border - it simply changes the figure and poses a little ....hm...dilemma maybe?  - as to deciding what needs to be shaded.

This brings me to the main point of this blog-post: the decision making  in pencil magic with shading, as in: what is to be shaded and how deeply. It is not your thinking mind which decides,  not your ego or willfulness which is asked or invoked: it is your subconscious, your meditative state, your inner knowing, your "seeing" with a different eye - because - there is a figure (or several figures) there which wants to emerge, be seen, come alive - and you are in relationship to IT - that 'thing', the entity, the form - you are its facilitator - helping it to come alive. It emerges from the ground and with shading - it will take 3 dimensional form - it changes from lines into an entity - in total collaboration with you and your state of being....and dropping your everyday beta brain state will allow it to be seen.

Sometimes I notice my hand or eye is drawn to a certain shape to start shading it...then to another - I don't really know why ...but i do it. Look again - following intuition - for lack of a better word. Sometimes I start seeing a multitude of shapes, entities or "beings" in there...the border is like a window into another world altogether...and i am still thinking - there is NO WAY i can draw or shade in a way that they all become visible ...but then - I am only carving out 1 hour a week for this .... so I don't know what  - with my willing help - could possibly emerge from that window .... but to me,  this entire shading process really IS magic :)
This journey has just begun. I have heard things like: and this is your next stage ...pointing to some incredible landscape drawing ...and I am like: no no ...not yet ...there is sooooo much more in these simple "exercises" ...:)

You are invited to join our weekly art hour on gorebaggtv
Fridays at 10:30am PST

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CW