In early 2005 I did some experimenting with what I call “intuitive portraits”. I’ve never been much of a portrait artist. One night I was playing around and drawing a friend and I found that my hand wanted to keep drawing other faces on top of my original drawing of her. I decided that maybe my inability to draw faces exactly as they are was not a mistake but my strong intuitive capacity coming to the foreground. ... http://www.squidoo.com/intuitiveportraits Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:51:17 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:56:57 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/intuitiveportraits In early 2005 I did some experimenting with what I call “intuitive portraits”. I’ve never been much of a portrait artist. One night I was playing around and drawing a friend and I found that my hand wanted to keep drawing other faces on top of my original drawing of her. I decided that maybe my inability to draw faces exactly as they are was not a mistake but my strong intuitive capacity coming to the foreground. I wanted to explore this some more so, as part of a promotion at the Artella Words and Art website I offered free drawings. I expected five responses and received 25+ requests! I didn’t have an exact method for this, other than being open to wherever my hand wanted to go with minimal direction, exactly the opposite of what I learned in my college art classes. I worked with some photos of the subject but didn’t intend to make the drawing look like them.  The drawing on the left is an example of one of those portraits. Since then I've discovered that there are other artists working in this way and I am fascinated by their process.  Image copyright 2005, G.L. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:56:57 -0600