Neurographic Art
- Sadie Jade Fouracre-Reynolds
- Jan 20, 2024
- 2 min read
Our Catch-Up and Create sessions started off with some neurographic art. A great way to refocus your mind and channel whatever you're thinking - or trying not to think - about into unique little works of art.
Step 1 - Find a pen / pencil / something to draw with, and a piece of paper / something to draw on.
Step 2 - Put 'pen' to 'paper' and close your eyes.
Step 3 - Take a deep breath and as you breath out move your 'pen' around the 'paper.
Note: Every time you notice where your 'pen' is moving, change direction.
Make as many lines like this as you want, making sure that the ends either run off the page or into another line, so that there aren't any unfinished lines stopping in the middle of the page.
Step 4 - Round off the corners where your lines intersect.
Step 5 - Fill the spaces with whatever you like; colours, patterns, pictures... it's up to you.
This form of art making was developed from simple doodling by Russian psychologist and architect Pavel Piskarev in 2014 as a means of connecting concious and subconscious thought. The basic idea is that after subconsciously creating the intersecting lines on the page, the conscious act of manipulating and shaping them helps us to work through the thoughts and emotions that created them in the first place.
It's a meditative process rooted in mindfulness and can be very cathartic. Some people choose to write a message, thought or feeling on the back of their 'paper' before they start. It can help to focus the activity for you.
If you're interested in learning more about Piskarev and neurographica then these are pretty good places to start:
But you might just want to give it a go as a creative bit of fun. A great way to create interesting art work without any 'artistic skill' or focus on perfectionism. It is after all, in effect, a doodle. And I'm not sure it's possible to doodle 'wrong'.
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