I started to tell Wendlane about a short course I took towards the end of last year. It was called An Introduction to Psychic Art which may sound a bit spooky or scary.
The main reason I actually took the course was because it actually doesn't matter how good an artist you are or whether you've been trained or not. You learn to "let go" - to draw what you feel, to quieten the self critical & logical part of your brain. As I've implied in some of my earlier blogs, I like to draw and create. However, I can also be very self critical and it is that, that has stopped me from drawing or when I have tried, makes me frustrated and throw out my results. It has therefore taken me a long time to realise that it's the actual process of drawing & creating that I enjoy and therefore, so what if it doesn't turn out to be "right".
So, I absolutely loved going to the class. It did help me relax and enjoy the process. For 5 weeks we'd try different things - drawing the energy of 2 opposite words (see one of my earlier blogs); we got to experience automatic writing/drawing (that did spook some people in the class - the best way I can describe the feeling is your heart beat tends to increase, I started to breathe more shallower and you feel a sense of urgency so your hand does shoot off); and we practiced trying to clear out minds, holding an intention to draw something e.g. a face or a mandala, and then just scribbling and see what comes out. The important thing is not to try. So, with the face example, we dimmed the lights so we could hardly see, held the intention to draw a face upside down and voila.... Below is what I came out with on 2 seperate occasions. It may sound easy to do, but you try hold the intention to draw something, but when you pick up the pastel or charcoal, don't try draw it....

I don't know who he is, but whenever I look at the pictures there is an energy there.