How to develop imagination. Presentation: "Imagination

Psychological color and drawing tests for adults and children Shevchenko Margarita Aleksandrovna

Chapter 5 Imagination, drawing and color for positive changes in life

Imagination, drawing and color for positive life changes

Expressing emotions through visible images and color

Any emotion can also be seen in some visual image of a certain shape and color. To do this, you must first imagine it at the level of your imagination, and then draw it. What will happen in this case? Firstly, in the process of drawing a negative image, its energy will be activated, which means that you will have a strong incentive to get rid of it. Secondly, you will have a real picture of the image of your emotion, which will be easy to get rid of. After the drawing is finished, it should be destroyed - first torn into small pieces, then burned. And only after that, proceed to the drawing of a new, positive image of an emotion or your state created by your imagination. You can draw right away, for example, with watercolors, but you can first draw with a simple pencil and then color. Do it at your own discretion and desire. If you draw your new drawing with a simple pencil, then do not rush to color it right away. For a while, just look at the colors in order to understand which colors attract you, and only after that proceed to coloring the drawing. When you've finished your new drawing with a positive image, stick it in a prominent place so that it can be seen from any distance, and also caught your eye as often as possible. This will tune your body to the right wave. Even if you do not know how to draw and are sure that you are not able to see any images, it is enough to pick up a pencil and simply drive it along the paper. You are bound to develop a certain image that you may not immediately understand, but nevertheless it will be a good experience in establishing contact with the images that are within you. In any case, you will force your right hemisphere of the brain to work actively, and this means a lot, since it, unlike the left, does not make any judgments and logical reflections.

Below are some exercises to help you develop your imagination.

Exercise "Color and Images"

Spread a piece of one-color fabric on the floor so that it fills your field of vision, relax. Start staring at the colored surface of the fabric, letting it affect you. At the same time, try to call up some images from the subconscious. For example, the blue color of your fabric may give rise to associations associated with the sea or the sky, and green - with young juicy grass growing in a meadow, or green foliage of a tree, etc. If the color of fabric you have chosen does not have such an effect, you should try to use another one.

Image Management Exercise

Sit in your favorite chair, relax, close your eyes. Imagine a white canvas or sheet of white paper. Place a white lily on it. Then mentally paint it orange with a brush. Then imagine the white canvas again. Mentally paint it entirely green with a brush, then change the green to yellow. So you can represent any colors of your choice.

When you do these exercises, you will be surprised how easy it all turned out for you. This is proof enough that you are free to invoke or not invoke certain images and control them.

For coloring the picture, it is best to use pastel crayons or watercolors. Although, as already mentioned, you can also immediately draw your drawing in color, without first sketching with a simple pencil.

Example. Recently, a young girl Yuliya, 28 years old, came to see me. Her eyes were filled with tears, and as soon as she began to tell her story, she burst into tears. It turned out that the guy who promised to marry her left her, he just disappeared, and soon she found out that he had another. Julia, meanwhile, began to experience strong despair and resentment, but gradually, over time, they were replaced by depression and disappointment in all men and life in general. After reassuring the girl, I gave her a sheet of paper and paint and asked her to draw her condition in the form of some image that she would see at the level of her imagination, and color it. She pictured herself as a withered flower, a flower with drooping petals, on dry ground. The drawing turned out to be gloomy, and Julia called it "Depression" (see color insert, fig. 16).

I asked how much she liked what she drew. It turned out I didn't like it at all. Then I advised to destroy the drawing, tearing it into small pieces, which Yulia did.

Then I asked her to draw something opposite to this sad and sad image of a flower, something that would invigorate the girl and inspire. In this case, it was important to replace the painful emotion with a positive, empowering image. Julia just sat and looked at a piece of paper for a while, and then painted with green paint a wheat germ that was breaking out of the ground (see color insert, fig. 17).

It took less than half an hour to create two drawings. In the process of drawing, the girl's tears finally dried up, and her mood improved significantly. When she finished her drawing, she even smiled. I was happy to note that her drawing turned out just wonderful, which means that it will help her from now on to look at life more optimistically.

Or another example. Once I received a call from a friend of mine from Kislovodsk, whom we had not seen for more than three years. When I asked how she felt, I heard: “It doesn’t matter, she has become stout, she has become like a fat cow that can barely move, her legs hurt. I don't know how to lose weight. In this case, “I have become like a fat cow that can barely move” is a metaphor. If you imagine this metaphor visually and imagine a fat cow, this will be a visualization. In order for my friend to lose weight (or at least not gain weight), she needs to destroy the image of a fat cow, that is, destroy it at the subconscious level, and then replace it with some other, positive, animal, for example, the image of a mountain fallow deer, which , as you know, there is no fat, because she constantly runs along mountain paths. At the same time, she should mentally repeat the following setting: "I am slender, like a mountain doe." Gradually, consciousness will take on a new image, to which it will begin to strive. You can draw images seen at the level of your imagination. Then the efficiency of replacing the image will increase if the images of a cow and a mountain fallow deer are depicted in color. For example, paint a cow in an unsightly gray color, and a mountain fallow deer in golden yellow.

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Fantasy is an integral part of the childhood of any person. It helps to come up with very unusual things, and with the help of imagination, visualize them in your head. It is used not only by children, but also by adults. Moreover, it often helps the latter a lot in everyday life, and also allows you to maintain mental health. Consider how to develop imagination in adults.

Games

The first method by which it will be possible to train fantasy with imagination is games. They are great for adults or kids of all ages. A big plus of such training will be the opportunity to have fun and develop figurative memory.

You can develop your imagination with the following games:

  1. Application of items. The task of the participants is to alternately come up with new options for the use of certain things. It is important that they are unusual, but logical enough. From 2 to 10 people can participate in the game, it is well suited for a family evening.
  2. Figure drawing. The game begins with the first participant drawing any figure, and all the others take turns adding various squiggles to it, creating a complete image. You can continue until the sheet is completely filled, but it is desirable to bring the picture into a logical form.
  3. Questions. Only 2 people take part in the game. It is best suited for the development of preschool children. The parent should ask the child unexpected questions. For example, "what if you had money" or "how would you get out of the woods." Such questions stimulate spatial imagination and logical thinking.
  4. Imaginary friend. Almost every child invented an imaginary friend with whom he communicated, played and even quarreled. It helped to distract from boredom and also to feel more social. Such a simple game is perfect even for adults. You just need to imagine a non-existent friend, and then communicate with him, consult or discuss various events.
  5. Who, with whom, where, when. The essence of the game are questions similar to its name. All of them need to be considered by each participant in turn. In the process, a sheet is taken, on which everyone answers their own question, and then bends their inscription. When everyone writes invented words, you need to read the resulting sentence aloud. The game is suitable for people of all ages.
  6. Puppet show. Many children are very fond of theatrical performances presented in a playful way. You can get a lot of benefit from this hobby. It is enough just to give the children the opportunity to personally create all the scenes. Parents themselves can act as spectators in such a game.
  7. Word games. A very simple game, the essence of which is to make different sentences. Participants are required to come up with unusual sentences, including three originally given words. After that, everyone should read them aloud.

You can play every day, but such training should be supplemented with other methods of influencing fantasy. The more you practice, the better the effect will be.

Morning exercises for the mind according to Tolstoy's method can also be a very effective game. Its essence is to describe any object as if it had never been seen before.

Exercises

You can train your imagination with the help of special exercises. They, like games, can be used not only for adults. It is recommended to do it every day. If desired, the training can be done several times.

Basic exercises:

  1. Formation of images. You need to take any two words that come to mind. Of these, halves are discarded, and the remaining ones are connected together. For a new word, you also need to come up with an appearance, description, purpose, etc.
  2. Verbalization. During the exercise, you need to take two nouns, but change one of them into a verb. For example, "needle the sky." After that, you need to show the visualization method and present the invented action.
  3. Combining image with action. You need to select any two items, and then change their main actions among themselves. For example, “glasses walk on a rhino” or “rhinoceros increases glasses.” From such proposals, an unusual story needs to be developed. Exercise will improve not only fantasy, but also thinking.
  4. New names. The goal of a person will be to come up with new variants of names for familiar objects related to their main use. For example, call a shovel a "digger". The use of such an exercise to develop the imagination can influence psychology, which will improve the perception of the world.
  5. Invention. A simple exercise that will help develop imagination, creativity and intelligence. You just need to try to collect something from improvised things. For example, make a car out of coins. A good helper in this case will be a LEGO constructor.

If you train regularly, you can become a very developed person in all areas. The effect of classes will be especially noticeable in fantasy, imagination, visual memory, thinking, as well as understanding the structure of the world around.

You can improve the result with the help of non-standard solutions to existing problems. To do this, you need to make a list of special options for how to achieve the desired result.

Creation

A creative person can achieve excellent results. Creativity greatly affects fantasy, developing it every time you do what you love, so architects, artists, designers, musicians, writers, screenwriters and people of other similar professions can boast of it. If it seems to them that their imagination is not sufficiently developed, and their imagination does not work well, then it will be much easier to solve the problem than for an ordinary person.

With the help of what creativity it will be possible to develop fantasy at home:

  1. Painting. You can just draw with a pencil or start painting right away. Any fine art allows you to achieve excellent results in a short time. Drawing unusual phenomena will be especially effective. For example, morning time on another planet. The disadvantages of this method include the importance of the presence of inspiration, without which nothing can come of it.
  2. Making up stories. It is best to start by writing small stories that do not require much time. After that, you can start writing large stories. During the creation of the story, you will have to actively fantasize, coming up with unusual situations.

If you need to improve the quality of fantasy with imagination in a child, then you should turn to the help of plasticine. Creating various sculptures can also involve fantasy skills. And for those who know how to compose music, you can try to write a new song or create an unusual musical composition.

Creative people boast a particularly developed sense of taste and broad views of the world around them.

You can develop your imagination and imagination in any of the ways presented. But with the help of additional tips, it will be possible to achieve the result faster, and it will be even stronger. The tips include recommendations for lifestyle changes as well as simple workout methods.

  • Read books every day, fully delve into them;
  • Engage in self-development;
  • Travel, visit new places at least once a month;
  • Look for new inspiration;
  • Regularly visit exhibitions, look at art magazines;
  • Show curiosity, be interested in the device of technology;
  • Expand your interests, try something new;
  • Find creative friends, communicate with successful people;
  • Dreaming, imagining the future with unusual events;
  • Sometimes use one hand instead of the other;
  • Put yourself in the place of the characters in the books, imagine other options for the development of events;
  • Independently voice the characters in the cinema by turning on the TV without sound;
  • Invent unique fairy tales for your child;
  • Compose the fate of people seen on the street, remembering their appearance;
  • Visualize real events, imagine what exactly will happen in the future;
  • Watch the clouds, try to find among them known images.

Such simple tips bring good results. You just need to use them regularly, supplementing the main training.

Of great importance is the rejection of bad habits and restructuring on proper nutrition.

Fantasizing is not only pleasant, but also useful, so imagination can and even needs to be developed. But how to do it?

So, how to develop your imagination? Helpful Hints:

  1. Each of us watches TV, but it can be done for the benefit of the imagination. So, turn on the movie or cartoon, but turn off the sound. Watch what is happening on the screen and try to mentally voice the main characters, imagining what they could say. Come up with a plot, think about what the intonation of the characters could be.
  2. If you have recently seen a movie or performance, then you can put yourself in the place of one of the characters, think about how you would act in this or that situation. Also try to come up with a different ending or even fantasize another character.
  3. If you have difficulties, make the most of them. Even if you have found a solution, imagine how the situation could have developed differently. Come up with a few more ways to solve the problem, and not necessarily possible and real. For example, you can imagine that you have some unique ability that can help you.
  4. Dream! Yes, everyone should dream, it helps not only to develop the imagination, but also to strive for the implementation of the plan. For example, if you dream of your own house, then imagine the place where it will be located. It can even be a seashore or an island. Think over to the smallest detail the interior of the home, its facade. Mentally arrange the furniture, fantasize about how you live in a new house.
  5. If you have a child, then you can connect him. Make up stories together. Ask the kid to come up with one character, and you come up with another. Think together about what the characters do, how they live. Then imagine some amazing event that will change the lives of the characters and the course of the fairy tale. Think about how the characters will behave, how everything will end in the end.
  6. If you ride public transport, then consider people. But do it unobtrusively, otherwise your behavior will arouse suspicion. Just look at a person once, fix his image in your memory and come up with his life, destiny. Imagine where he could work, describe all his family members, his relatives, hobbies and so on.
  7. A simple technique called “Five Points” will help develop the imagination. On the sheet in a chaotic manner, put five dots. Now connect them in such a way that you get some kind of pattern. Then put five dots again and connect them in a different way. Make several drawings, complete each one to make compositions.
  8. Drawing various processes and phenomena will help to train and develop the artist's imagination. For example, try to draw your thoughts, morning in space, night on another planet, some non-existent mythical creature. Images can be abstract, this is only welcome. Be sure to add colors, and the most different, bright ones.
  9. You can try to come up with "fan fiction" like fans of famous films and TV shows. In general, "fan fiction" is a prehistory, a different version or continuation of a story previously invented by someone. If you have a favorite movie, then think about how it all could have started, how it could have ended differently, how everything could have continued after the finale.
  10. Books will help you diversify your personality and train your imagination, and certainly without pictures. Read, mentally describe the characters, their facial expressions, thoughts, objects surrounding them.
  11. Try changing hands occasionally. A certain hemisphere is responsible for each hand (for the right - the left, and for the left - the right). And if you use both, then two hemispheres will work at once, which, of course, will help you think creatively.
  12. Play an exciting and interesting game "What if". Just imagine different unusual phenomena. For example, think about what will happen if humans can fly, if people don't sleep, if animals start talking, if the sky turns pink, if they start selling new brains, and so on. And the more unexpected and sometimes even crazy your thoughts are, the more active your imagination will work.
  13. It will help to develop fantasy creativity, and any. You can draw, write poetry or songs, design new styles of clothing, create soap, sew or embroider, knit, and so on.
  14. Try to come up with unusual names for the most ordinary items. For example, a fork could be called a "edonatekalka", and a spoon "vrotozhelka". In general, think, associate things with some actions, and make unusual words out of these actions. It's not only fun, but also useful.
  15. Do not give your friends and loved ones banal gifts, come up with pleasant and unusual surprises. For example, if a friend is in business, give them the Idea Box. Let it be a regular bank. Put notes in it with useful tips that you think could help increase income. If mom is a salesperson, then present her with a soft seat for a chair with a “sales engine”, the role of which can be played by springs. In general, fantasize and think creatively in order not only to develop the imagination, but also to please loved ones.
  16. Look at the clouds and think about what each one looks like. Look at the outlines, do not think about the real, think abstractly and use your imagination. For example, in a round cloud, you can see the face or muzzle of some animal.
  17. You can put blots on a piece of paper and think what they look like.
  18. Try guessing on wax, it's very exciting! Take a saucer, fill it with water. Prepare a candle, light it and drip the melting wax into the water. In the resulting solidified figures, try to consider objects or even events.
  19. Communicate more with interesting and creative people, it is interesting and useful. Discuss their ideas, ask for their thoughts, ask for their opinion.
  20. Look for inspiration. Its source can be travel, new experiences, some interesting hobby, and so on.
  21. Look for unusual solutions to problems. For example, if something is broken, try to make a mini-repair using improvised materials, or even replace the item with another one.
  22. Practice visualization. For example, if you are striving for something, then clearly imagine that it has already happened. So, if you are developing a project, consider how it will be presented, how you will speak, how your ideas will be approved.

Let the tips help you learn how to use your imagination and think creatively!

The girl Rada asks me how to find out if you have a fantasy, if it can be developed somehow, and if so, how.

Hello Natalie!
... I am learning to draw, I want to become an artist, and in connection with this, I had a question that I have little idea of ​​how to solve.

How can you understand if you have fantasy, imagination? Can it be developed, and if so, how?
I'm pretty good at drawing from nature (for my level), doing different things, but I think it's purely technical. It is difficult for me to give more fantasy tasks, mainly related to arts and crafts.

Have you ever had similar problems, or someone you know?
Thanks in advance. Glad.

One of my favorite questions :-) It seems to me that problems with fantasy live only in our heads. I love it, fantasy, compared with muscles. We all know that we have them, but we begin to “feel” them only when we get a serious or unusual physical activity for us. And they become noticeable (visually) only when daily training becomes the norm. In other words, absolutely everyone has a fantasy, like muscles.





Fantasy is not something abstract and intangible. Against. She needs to set a direction, make it flow along some one path. Those. you just need complex exercises aimed at developing specific "muscles".

1. Faces around us.
This is the most fun and easy exercise. Look for faces around you! The habit of associative thinking can be developed, brought to the level of a reflex. Then fantasy will be in full swing! Have you ever thought that each facade of the house has its own face? Have you already looked at your USB cable, what an unhappy face he has? Did you notice the stapler's face?



2. Take a bunch of photos of clouds and circle in Photoshop or on a real, printed photo, all the shapes that you can recognize. Follow the call of Leonardo da Vinci to see images even in the cracks on the wall. Do the same as with the clouds, with photos:
- shadows
- cracks
- hand skin
- tree structures
- structures of marble or stone





3. Create monotypes and draw them to finished shapes!

http://www.monotypy.ru/

4. Make a pack of sheets with blots: draw them up to some shapes or circle those that you can isolate from the total mass.



Works by Portuguese artist L Filipe dos Santos:http://www.corcoise.blogspot.com/

5. Collect different items: by color or shape, and put them into groups, compositions, installations:http://art-expiration.livejournal.com/1 11953.html



Copyright Camilla Engman



Copyright Pam Garrison

6. Take any item from household utensils and come up with something new with it: animated or mechanical. I wrote a whole tutorial on this topic:http://art-expiration.livejournal.com/1 24853.html






7. Pick up any simple object and think about how it can be adapted for some other purpose. (Google the word bionik - it is also useful to see what a person has already managed to peep from nature.)

Photo from here http://www.technik-welten.de

8. Imagine how a familiar scene (street, subway, apartment) will look from a different angle: through the eyes of an animal, an insect, a bird in the sky, a neighbor, a fork on the table - put Andersen in you!

Photo from herehttp://www.dobersberger.com/fotos-bixip ic/2010/fotomarathon-wien/

9. Take any object in your hands and try to describe it in at least 5 ways: geometric, in association with wildlife or any other phenomenon. I wrote a tutorial on this topic here:http://conjure.livejournal.com/274401.html


10. Draw from nature and draw parts of the body of animals to people or objects: the paws of beetles, the wings of dragonflies or butterflies, the body of bees, the tentacles of an octopus.

Boris Vallejo

11. Make collages or just cover the paper space with clippings by color or content.






12. Draw in artbooks

A necessary condition for the qualitative renewal of society is the multiplication of its intellectual potential. The solution to this problem largely depends on the construction of the educational process. Most of the existing educational programs are focused on transferring the socially necessary amount of knowledge to students, on their quantitative growth, on practicing what the child already knows how to do.

However, the ability to use information is determined by the development of logical methods of thinking.

The need for purposeful formation of logical thinking in the process of studying specific educational disciplines is already recognized by psychologists and educators.

The problem is that for the full assimilation of the material, students need logical analysis skills. Primary school teachers often use training-type exercises first of all, based on imitation, not requiring thinking.

One of the types of such activities, where elements of logical and creative thinking are developed, is Painting.

In the process of drawing, a person develops his cognitive processes; in the process of drawing from nature, one's own sensation and disclosure of such concepts as color, volume, space, etc. occur.

In the lessons of drawing from life, the student should not be cunning, invent, compose; he should respond with his experiences to what excites him in this nature, but express it competently in his drawing.

developing spatial and figurative thinking while working from nature, it makes a person see and perceive the world around him in a new way, display it in a new way in his drawings.

The method of teaching drawing in general educational institutions is currently developing very intensively. There are many interesting developments by such authors as E.I. Kubyshkina, N.M. Sokolnikova, E.V. Shorokhov, A.S. Khvorostov, T.Ya. Shpikalova and others. They created educational and methodological and visual aids for drawing, composition, etc. For the first time in many years, visual arts textbooks for elementary and secondary schools were published.

Drawing lessons are another effective means of developing logical thinking in children of primary school age. Fine art lessons not only develop the level of knowledge, but also form the mental world of the individual, they also help to include subjective aesthetic values ​​in the emerging socially significant values, and this is the main task of student-centered learning.

Correction of negative emotional complexes through drawing in children



There are two more arguments in favor of drawing therapy:

children's drawing is the main communicative means of the child, a means of expressing feelings, as well as spontaneous psychotechnics traditional for the children's subculture;

drawing is easily combined with other techniques used in child psychotherapy.

These considerations are the basis for the methodology developed and tested for 7 years for the correction of emotional disorders in children aged 5-9 years.

The methodology is based on the following principles

the drawing is considered as a sphere of combining diagnostics and correction;

the drawing is seen as a phenomenon, i.e. in a complex way, when any individual indicator of the picture cannot be unambiguously associated with any individual psychological characteristic of the child;

any characteristic of the drawing over time can change its meaning for the same child;

drawing must be accompanied by a conversation between the therapist and the child about his drawing;

the main character of the picture is a metaphor for the child's personality, and the events taking place in the picture are metaphors for the subjective perception of events in which the child is emotionally involved;

the principle of safety: the use of metaphorical space avoids a direct, rough impact on the child's psyche;

Therapeutic work with a child through drawing is carried out only with the consent of the parents or guardians; the presence of parents at the session is highly desirable not only to avoid misunderstandings, but also as a kind of positive "anchor" necessary when working with negative experiences;

each session should end with a positive experience for the child.

Experience has shown that the use of this technique is effective if:

the mental age of the child is not less than 5 years;

the child likes to draw, i.e. he actively uses visual images.

Otherwise, drawing can be used for diagnostic purposes, as well as a means of transition to other techniques.

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