Cheryl Van Gundy

I learned of aphantasia a few years ago and it was a shock. I thought exprecions like "picture this" or "counting sheep" in your head was just sayings. I have been into traditional art most my life, though never taking a formal art class, I am self taught. I have dont countless commitions for people, painting and drawing things.I never thought about how this has or could affect my creativity (other than how neat it would be to be able to paint inside my head without having to take out a paint brush). I was explaining this condition to a friend a week or so ago and something they said was striking, "You must be better at creating and brain storming because you are not held back by preconceived images or ideas that pop to your mind". I do wonder about that. At this moment I am doing a paper for college over aphantasia and creativity. This is how I found this site.Now my creative process involves a lot of web searches for images to study before I start a project. I get as much knowledge in my head about something before I atempt to create it. Before I had much web access I worked almost exclusivly from a photo, copying it exactly. I didnt do much on my own because it was too hard to come up with something, and have it turn out the way I wanted it to. I will stop here, or my tendancy to babble will dominate.You are most welcome to contact me: [email protected]