Beginning Drawing: Drawing on Right Side of Brain

Instructor: Lyle Colombo

Description: This course is based on the twelve-week program in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, an art educator who believed that drawing has little to do with natural talent and that anyone could learn to do it. Edwards explains the perceptive shift away from verbal, analytic processing toward a right-brained mode of processing visual information that is non-verbal and concrete. In this course, the instructor will guide students through exercises Edwards developed to help us shift from left- to right-mode visual processing. During this course, students will complete a variety of drawing projects, culminating in a self-portrait. Suitable for all levels.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Shift their mode of perception from analytic symbol system to artist mode
Produce drawings using a variety of mediums
Become familiar with basic line elements, edges, contours, and negative space
Accurately reproduce value and understand its impact on a drawing
Demonstrate accurate proportion and perspective
Understand and apply basic color theory

Materials Needed:

Book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (TarcherPerigee, 4th edition: 2012)
Drawing pad (11X14)
Newsprint
Toned pastel paper
Set of six drawing pencils
Vine charcoal
Conté set of 12 assorted colors
Pencil sharpener
Polymer eraser
Gum eraser
Chamois cloth
Self-portrait mirror (or any mirror that can stand freely on a tabletop)

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Fall 2024

9/11/2024

12/11/2024

9:00 AM

12:00 PM

WED

Lecture Room

708

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