Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move ‘randomly‘ across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. Hence the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche, which would otherwise be repressed. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was thought by some Spiritualists to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing whilst physically taking control of the medium’s body.

Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

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I want my work to go here eventually, right now my rational mind and overthinking tendencies tend to get in the way, A LOT.

So odd, I just watched Frazetta on Netflix a couple of weeks ago. RIP

Source

painted a couple of weeks ago. there was an open spot at Manual Arts High School and so i painted a girl. background & letterforms by Skypage. view it large here.

We’re guessing you’re a woman, since the majority of art students have been female for decades. Get ready to work harder and for fewer rewards than the guy next to you. If you’re an artist of color, multiply those difficulties.

Sure, the art world’s better now than ever before, especially at the entry level where everyone wants to see what women and artists of color have to say. But galleries still overwhelmingly show white males, and up the ladder, at the level of museums, auctions, and art history books, there’s a crushing glass ceiling, way worse than in a lot of other fields. -Guerrilla Girls

from the book: Letters to a Young Artist

source: Jor

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajourneyroundmyskull/sets/72157623325108870/

http://www.atariarchives.org/artist/index.php