Doodling…
Do a big scribble and then make a picture out of it. Do this a lot - it is a form of daydreaming or contemplative prayer - and it is very good brain activity because it is a balance of right and left brain hemispheres. I got it from the surrealists - they called it automatic drawing - but they would never have made it realistic - and for them it came from their unconscious - but I studied Andre Masson at that time...
I receive a lot of really great information this way AND over the years - I have developed a way to "scry" my drawings for other people.
http://joannawhitney.weebly.com/psychic-drawingsreadings.html
I first started this kind of drawing in 2011 http://joannawhitney.weebly.com/august-11.html
but I began painting from my intuition in 1989 with Aviva Gold.
The one you see here was started for a client, this morning - but I don't think I can photograph it successfully in stages because I really did not like the drawing and ended up scrapping it and starting over.
I ended up with this one - which has the same message but is a nicer drawing because I did not keep switching back to left brain mode to take photos.
Here is the final, hand-colored drawing I sent off to my client, folded into this origami envelope... The reading was done by simply describing what I see in the picture using green language and symbolism and information I was given while I was drawing it.
You can easily learn this without classes by just beginning. I always have tremendous self-doubt at the beginning of the drawing and reading, but I emailed it to the client and as always - I was told that it was divinely inspired and exactly what she had hoped for, as a gift for her mother's birthday. I popped it in the mail.