I have been using simple neurographic art techniques to help me create art from some of my most stressful emotions. To this end, I have created a small series of works I call "Heartbreak," a series of acrylic paintings on paper and canvas that began with writing a stressful emotion on the back of the canvas/paper, then using stream of consciousness thinking and neurographic lines to create the basis for a composition. Developed by Pavel Piskarev this method has opened up an entirely new artmaking approach to me LINK.
After the lines are completed, I add other elements as they pop into my head. Finally, I choose a color palette I would like to explore and use it faithfully. The process is very interesting to me, so I continue to explore it and to feel its benefits. This is an on-going, evolving process that I allow to lead me even though I do have a structure at the outset.
The attachment to the original emotion changes over time, because naturally every emotion is fleeting and I never feel the same way each time I approach the canvas. But I do continue to reflect on the original question. Sitting with a feeling over time and using paint at the same time is a new experience for me.
The painting evolves greatly as I work. By the end of the process, the painting does reflect some of the original emotion, but also, to my great surprise/delight, supersedes it, proving to me something profound about the transformative aspect of art making.
I find great emotional benefit to creating art this way. The final paintings show me the many nuances and evolutions of my feelings in a way that my former expressionist paintings and process do/did not. I am interested in this very much.
