Fire up your right brain
Kerri Dixon 
Weekly schedule of short right brain activities to get more creative
Fire up your right brain to get more creative
Weekly schedule of right brain exercises
The right side of the brain is the creative, intuitive, artistic, and also impulsive side of the brain whereas the left side is the logical thinking mind, able to solve problems and think of solutions. By doing these simple exercises every day you will work your right brain muscle which in turn will help creating art much easier. Those with a well developed right side of the brain can see shapes better, interpret colour, be in the moment etc.
Sunday
Doodle, whenever your on the phone or have a spare 10 minutes, just sit down and start doodling. You can go online and look up zen tangling if you want some ideas.
Monday
Sign your name every which way. First use your non dominant hand, then try it in a mirror, then upside down, keep signing your name until you can do it in all directions.
Tuesday
Do a blind contour drawing, crumple up a piece of paper and draw the contour without looking at your paper, or better still, draw someone's face without looking at your paper, just follow the contour lines.
Wednesday
Morning pages/Automatic writing. As soon as you wake up, sit down and write whatever comes into your head, either until you fill 2 or 3 pages or time yourself for maybe 5 minutes and just write down whatever your thinking about, see what flows.
Thursday
Draw something with your reference image upside down.
Friday
Move your head from right to left, breath out of your left nostril only, move the left side of your body only, twirl to the left, walk differently than normal eg. swing your arms in tune with your legs.
Saturday
Day dream, take 10 minutes to just close your eyes, sit still, relax and drift off to see where your thoughts take you. or lay on the grass and stare at the clouds for 10 minutes.
Take each days idea and mix it up every week with something a little different from the week before and make these right brain activities a regular part of your day.
I'd also love you to join my online membership THE CREATIVE BARN waitlist where you will be first to know when the doors swing open again, plus you'll receive a FREE tutorial while your waiting.
Kerri xx
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Categories: : art, educational, Mindset
