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The Crumpled Paper

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For this exercise you will need a piece of paper and a pencil (no eraser), sharpener and one piece of scratch paper- typing paper or junk mail.

Crumple a piece of scratch paper or junk mail. This will be your subject. Using a crumpled paper as a drawing subject is a good exercise because our left brain will not label or assume things about it. There will be no way to draw without looking at it.

Before you begin drawing take a few minutes to relax your body and your mind. Take a few relaxing breaths. Be comfortable. Only your “crumpled paper” drawing paper, pencil and sharpener should be in front of you.

To “connect” with your crumpled paper, allow your eyes to be filled with the crumpled paper before you. Let your eyes stay on one spot at first, and then slowly begin to travel along the papers edges and lines. Think of becoming ant and slowly strolling along the contours of this vast paper world. Do not pick up your pencil and draw anything yet. You are solely interested in getting to know “the subject”. Close your eyes and see the paper in your mind’s eye. Can you follow the lines as you did with your eyes open? Open your eyes and allow your gaze to land a spot of crumpled paper, ask it to welcome you. When you feel recognition, pick up your pencil and allow it to become very corridor of your interaction with this object. During the drawing do not look down at the image you are creating with your pencil, and do not list the pencil from the page.

There are a number of reasons for the final instruction regarding looking at the drawing and lifting the pencil. If you have great expectations of yourself the restrictions will free you from having to fulfill them. Also you can give yourself permission to focus only on Seeing. Lastly, the restrictions free you from the responsibility of the final outcome, helping you let go of the natural desire to be in control of the image.

Please don’t try to evaluate your drawing. Whatever you did is great! The important thing is the process. Ask yourself, did you see the crumpled paper?

Joanie FordFor more on Joanie, visit our Inspirational Team page.

 

June 15, 2011 Filed Under: Life 2 Comments

About Michele

Michele Bergh is a teacher, a student and a lover of life. She is a healing artist who enjoys a variety of mediums and also has a few mad techie skills up her sleeves. By day she primarily does WordPress design and development and works with others to create a blissful life. By night, you'll find her behind a camera lens, on her bike, in a big comfy chair, cooking up a storm in her kitchen or sewing while listening to great music (probably from the 70s) on her ipod. Her greatest joy comes from living a orgasmic life by design.

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  1. Joanie Ford says

    June 17, 2011 at 6:22 am

    Yes Val, how true about life. I love this exercise because it really makes us slow down and see what is there. In my life sometimes I am so busy that I miss the little things (flowers and quietness) and I am always hurrying through the big picture. Like life, this drawing exercise helps us to slow down and see the flower in the quietness.

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  2. Val medeiros says

    June 15, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    Fascinating exercise Joanie! Loved it..Needless to say, my drawing may be closer to a flat paper with lines, than a crumbled paper, but the observations are amazing… possibly symbolic of life and how we have many facets, perspectives, hiding places to tuck emotions in, mountain ridges of elation, valleys of discovery…fun, fun, fun!! Thanks!

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