Hands and Heart: Generate more creativity in your life.

To me, being an artist has made me develop an interesting side of my personality,

maybe you can track it as well in your self and that is to be able to solve problems.

This is something that keeps showing up when we are working on a piece, either it is

how to make the painting work in a specific surface or which mediums will go

better with the emotion and how to solve all the little problems that come up while

you are working on your piece, endless tiny problems to be solved and tons of

decisions have to be made at the moment in order to achieve a final work that

pleases us. It is said that what we do often becomes a habit, this way of working

in art for me, came as an extension to other areas of life.

Maybe it´s something that is part of my personality and that I developed
even more being an artist and it may be something you want to focus on.

I believe that the ability to come up with solutions is creativity, it doesn´t matter in

which area you use it, you are still developing it. Let it be more consciously done.

Again, changing is the key to activate your creativity.

Here are some more new ideas on how to apply change into your life, this time we

will focus on making art, if you have been looking for improvement and haven't

been able to do so, I think you will benefit on taking this to practice.
For a better result, keep doing it for a while until a change is achieved.

I keep on evolving and changing a lot but that is who I want to be, please take

what you find useful from my ideas and see how you can implement them in

your own way of doing it. It is my hope that some light enters
your mind and you grow.

Use your left hand to create

My exercise this week was to switch hands for drawing, I am a right handed so

I used the left, it was a challenge at the beginning but then after a while when

I warmed up a bit, it became super fun, actually, I loved it! Why?

Because the line is so loosen, something I have been after for a long,

long time and yes, I have tried this before but this time something clicked

on me, what? I think it was the loss of fear of doing it wrong which is also a

struggle I see in many of my students. As grown ups, we do not want to
be judged or make mistakes, society has pushed us against the wall of don´t
you dare failing and actually made us static, no grown up lets go in my
class until after a while of me pointing it so, some haven´t even accomplished
it yet and for me, it is the same, I don´t want to let go of "perfectionism"
and this means in my mind doing it the same way I have and know
it is accepted.

How are we gonna improve if we keep doing it the same way? It is no
possible for a new form to emerge that way! Logic, yes, applied?
I don´t know! Let´s find out by trying it.

So I did, the pencil line, the pen line and some shading with my
left hand, after a while shading I found no point on keep doing it, you
are not doing it differently so I changed back to right hand, if you
find it a good exercise I encourage you to keep shading
with your non usual hand!

Tips on using your non usual hand:

Go slow.

Go steady.

Practice before the actual work.

Move the paper if needed to
accommodate the hand better.

Use what works already when you draw normally.

Think of it as if you were using your
regular hand, don´t add additional fear
by thinking it is super hard.

If you are not an artist and find this interesting, I advice you try and use

your non prominent hand in other daily tasks and see how this changes

your perspective and brings up new awareness, like opening the door,

inserting the keys, grabbing the spoon, etc., the point is to shake up

your comfort zone, you are so used to do things in one way that you

no longer are fully present, changing your perspective could bring up

more freshness to your life and therefore more creativity.

My completed work with my left hand, I love it!
I will use my left hand more often from now on!