Artist Nancy Reyner, author of Create Perfect Paintings, believes that painting with the creative side of the brain means keeping yourself engaged.Once boredom sets in, your focus and intent take a hike. However, this test can actually be performed on yourself just by performing simple noted tasks. Notice if and when you start repeating anything—brushstrokes, direction, size, color. The simple stuff. Both hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum and serve the body in different ways.See if you can tell what hemisphere is being used in each task! 7 Ways to Energize Your Creative Side. The right side is the 'artistic' side. It whines, judges, comes up with criticism and negativity, anything to get you to stop painting.Once you establish a good working relationship between your left and right sides, you will dramatically improve the level of ease and flow in your work. Don’t hold your breath or tighten your jaw, and try to maintain a loose grip on your tools.TETON AUTUMN / Bruce Cody / Oil on linen / 26″ × 56″ (66cm × 142cm) / Private collectionNotice the depth of space and viewing interest in this landscape. :) yes, the left side most people use every day. Learn how to work with your left and right sides together as a team. Evenly applied patterns or too much symmetry will decrease the work’s attention-getting power.Keep changing color, movement, brushwork, dilutions and shapes. Our left brain can sometimes act like a spoiled child. The neurons use a slightly different chemistry than the conscious elements of the brain use. Instead of trying to conquer fear, invite it along to play in the creative act.ADRIFT / Pat Bailey / Oil on canvas / 40″ × 30″ (102cm × 76cm)Autopilot is our left brain’s favorite mode. Finish your stroke well outside the edges of the surface, again painting air.SIRENS SONG 5 / Willy Bo Richardson / Watercolor and gouache on paper / 21″ × 26″ (53cm × 66cm) / Photo by Kim RichardsonIn this abstract comparison both paintings make use of vertical stripes as an overall compositional theme. A painter’s play phase is not about guilt, burden or fear, but about releasing. Function: Responsible for control of the right side of the body, and is the more academic and logical side of the brainIf you would split the brain right down the middle into two symmetrical, or equal parts, you would have a right and left hemisphere.

The “no pain, no gain” philosophy has its place but is absolutely not helpful for the play phase. Left Hemisphere: 1.

Creativity and artistic ability is associated with the right side of the brain, although recent studies show this is not strictly the case. Are you looking at the whole image and the big picture or smaller sections of detail?Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on detail, going back and forth several times during a standard painting session.This movement from big to small and its reverse keeps your right brain active. Come make art with us!© Copyright 2020 Golden Peak Media. Teaching to shift toward the right hemisphere. The goal is to feel like you are the observer (a term used in many meditation techniques) instead of identifying fully with the right or left sides. This overly repetitive quality is a common consequence when left brain dominates.One might argue that by simply changing each stripe’s color, one can create interest and a sense of space. This is similar to a snapshot photo taken from a more expansive landscape.Practice the following exercise on an inexpensive surface to help you envision expansive space. This is not to imply that the right brain exercises are boring or dull, rather they may be something that feels 'unnatural' or that you can't see the logic in doing. Unfortunatly, VERY few people can access their right half of their brain. Here colors not only change with each stripe, but shift within the stripe itself. If you know which side of the brain you use more, you can actually plan out your life accordingly. It holds speech, sight,smell, touch, and hearing. Although equal in size, these two sides are not the same, and do not carry out the same functions.The left side of the brain is responsible for controlling the right side of the body. Paint with the creative side of the brain (the right side) dominant as much as possible since painting with your left brain will usually reduce variety.Here are seven helpful suggestions to maintain right brain dominance while painting. Come have fun with us! With the right brain dominant, the artist produces a painting that has better attracting power and more intriguing spatial effects.It isn’t about the creative side of the brain alone. Function: Responsible for control of the right side of the body, and is the more academic and logical side of the brain . The work readily reveals the artist’s use of the creative side of the brain. The top image has little variation in that each uniform stripe differs only in color from its neighbor. Some scientists say that it's all a bunch of mumbo jumbo; that there isn't any real difference between the right and life side of the brain. Function: Responsible for control of the left side of the body, and is the more artistic and creative side of the brain. Hard-edge abstraction often contains pattern-like qualities, yet successful paintings in this genre will still contain enough variations in design and color to create interesting eye movement, as seen here.Keep variety readily available by continuing to check your setup of Try imagining that the image you plan to paint represents a very small fragment of a much larger space that exists outside the surface. Our brain naturally switches back and forth between both sides during activities. While painting, try to be aware when the act of painting starts to feel repetitious and automatic. 1.

The right side is said to be the most powerful source a human has been given. It also helps integrate parts of your image to the whole.THE TALISMAN, CA 1888 / Paul Sérusier / Oil on wood / 69″ × 55″ (175cm × 140cm) / Collection of the Musée d’Orsay, ParisTABLEAU I, CA 1921 / Piet Mondrian / Oil on canvas / 41″ × 39″ (104cm × 99cm)Hard-edge abstraction is a painting style used by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, Agnes Martin, Kasimir Malevich and Frank Stella.