Ever work spontaneously and intuitively, without the intervention of conscious thought processes?

Well then! You might not be familiar with this, but the Automatons, a french Canadian group of artists were doing this and the 40's and 50', also an important ingredient in North American Abstract Expressionism.

So if you haven't tried it, please do. Pick up a pen, clear your mind and draw, or write, make any mark you want. And if that' s too boring, there is always contourism...

"We are never in full control of our actions, but driven by unconscious impulses."(Freud, who else.)

JC

PS Oh darn, isn't blind contour intuitive? Oh, there's the Sun, gotta run.

Two Pen Man 

Woman with Teapot 

Macri and the Salamanders(what are those little creatures called?) 

Toronto Harbour 

Toronto 

Homage to Cecil Butler - Flock of Nuns 

Hand Man 

Four Eyres and Two Jackson Heads 

Pile of Hot Booze 

Bank of Montreal, Winnipeg 

Damen and Andrew at the Copa  

Justin Rutledge 

So Far, So Far 

Listening to Ray Charles and Sipping Cognac 

Justin Rutledge and the D-Rangers 

Coin de Rachel et De La Roche 

Blind Contour Prayer

Let us give our work full power
Let us bend ourselves to will
Let us spend our strength in spirit
We remain free to cogitate

Let us give our work full power
Let us bend ourselves to will
Let us spend our strength in spirit
We remain free to cogitate

And from this vantage point we behold eternity
Facing incommensurable time stretching into the invisible

Blind Contour Time (BCT) 

The Busch, the Penguin, and the Peacock 

The Botkins 

Tamtams 4 

TamTams 2 

Tam Tams 1 

Stephen Jackson 2 

Flock of Pigeons 

Shawna Sleeping 2