The Drawing Lab at Two Sites in Boston starting October

As humans we all possess a “Drawing Mind” a piece of ourselves that can make sense of the world through a drawn line. The part of our brain that knows how to draw a “bumpy line or a jagged line.” Drawing is thinking in a visual form. Drawing helps us to see better. Drawing helps us to think better. The power of the drawn line as a tool for thinking, connecting, seeing, expressing and healing has yet to be tapped to its full potential.

The Drawing Lab is a space that I created to give visitors an opportunity to engage with their Drawing Mind in an open and experimental way. Through a variety of sensory explorations, visitors draw music, textures, objects, emotions, etc. The Drawing Lab is my invitation as artist and teacher to participants to trust their Drawing Mind to allow it to re-emerge, re-energize and re-connect. This month in Boston, Massachusetts I am setting up The Drawing Lab in two spaces. These spaces not only allow the visitor to connect with their Drawing Mind but will allow for cultural and community connections through the process of drawing. One Drawing Lab will be at the Wyner Museum at Temple Israel. Visitors will connect with Jewish sounds, music, objects, and texts through the process of drawing their responses. The other Drawing Lab space will be part of an exciting new endeavor in Chinatown called the "Chinatown Storefront Library." Which is part of a larger project called, "The Boston Street Lab" The Storefront will open mid-October. Please stop by either location and MAKE YOUR MARK and add it to the Community Drawing Walls.

The Drawing Mind Sketchbook

This blog is for everyone who wants to re-connect with their ability to make a MARK and DRAW. You may not even know that you are missing drawing or doodling or sketching in your life because you became disconnected from that piece of yourself a long, long , long time ago. You lost your Drawing Mind the time your second grade teacher made fun of your drawing or told you that what you were drawing was not "correct." You shut down. You vowed never to draw again if you could help it. You locked that piece of your self away. This blog is a way to take small steps back to your innate ability to DRAW. There is no "correct" way to draw.

This blog will give you bite sized drawing exercises. Draw for 3 minutes. Fill a page with as many different kinds of BUMPY LINES you can think of. 3 minutes just draw...If you want to jump into the creative process and build your Drawing Mind further a great place to start is with the interactive sketchbook I wrote titled, "The Drawing Mind."

It will get you started on your creative journey...

Drawing Over my Blog

Whenever I make a drawing there is that moment of reflection. Taking the time to look at what has come out onto the page and take stock. It may be a moment of recognition or disgust or complete surprise. The creative process is like that, a give and take, a getting lost and then finding your way back, a push to take the road never travelled. Undertaking a blog is like creating a drawing. There is a constant need of checking back in and reflection on the whole. I started taking a class today titled, "Blog Triage" with Alyson B. Stanfield at http://www.artbizblog.com and Cynthia Morris at http://journeyjuju.com. I am excited about the prospect of making my blog richer and more exciting. I started on this blogging adventure without a clue about what I was really doing. As an artist I have many lives I lead. I am a painter, printmaker, installation artist and I love to draw. I also love to teach all ages. I have created a piece that travels called "The Drawing Lab." This blog is given over to my passion for DRAWING. I want to share my knowledge about the DRAWING PROCESS and CREATIVITY with everyone because I believe that drawing is an essential language that everyone can access. My blog is geared towards anyone that wants to leap into the world of drawing and visual thinking. We all have the capacity to draw but fear plagues many. I believe we all have what I have called a "DRAWING MIND" that piece of ourselves that knows how to make a MARK on a blank page. My blog is a way to connect us all with one another through the language of drawing. Ideally I would love people to use the blog as a space to share their sketches and scratches and doodles and drawings. We draw for so many reasons and in myriad ways and this blog is a place to highlight and share the infinite variety a drawing can take. Take a moment and think about your day, did you draw a doodle, a sketch, a map, a design, a model, a plan, a line?

iPhone Drawings

Never liked drawing on computers. I like the feel of the pencil or charcoal on paper. But my grandmother always said "never say "never" and now I have found my technological niche...drawing on my iPhone. If I need a quick fix, a quick draw, I have two minute s before the movie starts I pull out my iPhone and draw. I use the application called, "Brushes." I also have the application named, "Paintbook." Two other apps that I like and now use in my work are: "TypeDrawing" and "Shake Photo."