Thank you for all your thoughtful replies about the Edward's text.
Ruskin's 'Elements of Drawing' is also a text I have referred to before
but the exercises there are difficult to understand at times so I will
also look into the texts Eduardo/Michael have recommended. I am
currently suffering from a 'drawing block' of some sort and am very
grateful for the advice.
-waqas
http://spaces.live.com/trilbydrawing
eleni rivers wrote:
> Hello All,
> I teach from both these books mentioned, Kimon Nicolaides "The Natural
> Way to
> Draw" and Betty Edwards “Drawing on the Right side of the Brain”. I
> find them to be invaluable aides.
>
> Classifying qualities as left or right brain is making it very
> simplistic but that is its very genius. In a drawing class situation,
> it is not important to go into too much theory into the latest brain
> research etc. Also, everyone is somewhat familiar with the terms /left
> and right brain/ so it is a good place to start. I make it very clear
> that I am an artist and not a scientist but do point them in the
> direction of web sites if they want to research further. The idea is
> to get out of the way of you mind so that you can “drop” into pure
> observation. In this way, it is a kind of a meditation – less
> thinking, the better!
>
> I have had tremendous results with /Drawing on the Right side of the
> Brain/. I first started teaching it when I noticed that many students
> in my watercolour classes had bought this book but had not really
> taken themselves through the exercises. So we made a separate class,
> started at page one and worked our way methodically through the
> chapters. The class became so popular that I had waiting lists of
> several months. It was a delight to see people have the “aha”
> experience when they could translate their perceptions onto page and
> actually draw a likeness of a face. Many people had a breakthrough –
> it was touching to see.
>
> My favourite exercise of all, mentioned in both these books, is
> contour drawing. I use this a lot, particularly for myself when I feel
> disconnected and a loss of where to start. It humbles one which is a
> good place to start!
>
> For the record, I teach drawing classes that also combine meditation
> here in Melbourne, Australia.
>
> ~Eleni Rivers
> Www.elenirivers.com
>
>
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> *From: *Eduardo Corte Real <[log in to unmask]>
> *Reply-To: *The UK drawing research network mailing list
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> *Date: *Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:00:27 +0100
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> *Subject: *Re: Recommendation
>
> Hello Waqas,
>
> I teach a very specific course "Observation Drawing". I find Betty
> Edwards
> aproach very useful. I do not believe intirelly in that right side of the
> brain mambo jambo but some of the exercises really work, mainly those
> without looking at the paper. The main thing is to teach the students
> to see
> twodimensionally before passing things to the paper. If you think of it
> Durer's perspective devices were nothing more than this.
> If you teach life model do not forget Kimon Nicolaides "The Natural
> Way to
> Draw".
> Cheers,
>
> Eduardo
>
> IADE, Lisbon
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