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new drawing technique to be able to use that technique intuitively in a relaxed manner. Once you are aware of new ways of seeing it is easier to retrieve that information. When approaching a task and with your journal at the ready work through problems to find adequate resolution. What you are doing is systemising your own finesse!

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"The Whole Is More Than The Sum Of The Parts."

We bring to any artwork we perceive a ready-made bag of perceptual and emotional triggers.

Emotional Science.

"While the neocortex understands words and ideas, the amygdala does not, but is one of the centres of emotion. In evolutionary terms, the amygdala is much older than the neocortex. In contemporary terms, getting these two together not only creates new neural pathways in the brain but also produces more choice."

As artists we can widen our choices by learning about which emotions are being triggered when we view colours, shapes, forms, lines, images and combinations of them. That is why drawing is called visual literacy : because it is a language that we can learn. It is an unlimited language which allows us unbridled access to expression. This is because it is linked to the right-hand side of the brain and thus to imagination, reverie, fantasy and the like. Verbal language limits the scope of our thoughts because that is its function. It reduces our need to literally interpret sensory perception so that our thought processes remain manageable. (It has to be managable when we are doing tasks such as the banking and creating a timetable.) Visual language liberates because it has access to all that is possible and encourages wide interpretations. How rich the dialogue once communities enter this realm of liberated thought. Co-creation - The Courage To Follow A Vision.

So by accessing our emotional language through visual and sensual stimuli we can use that knowledge to influence our environment by creating decor, that triggers relaxation and other conducive emotions. A very clear example of this is Feng Shui but even the simplest attempt at interior design is an attempt to influence emotions and feelings via visual language. Fish tanks are often placed in doctor's surgeries to calm patients.

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And so I am sure that you are coming to some idea of what we mean by Gestalt. The sum of the parts fit together to make a much more powerful statement than the techniques

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