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Betty Edwards

Negative Space

February 5, 2009

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I’ve always been interested in the concept of “space.” My work when I teach is all about creating space. In fact, I have learned that being able to create rich, fertile space is way more important than any subject matter expertise that I may have. So if space is [ Read more … ]

Letting the Right Brain Draw

February 4, 2009

Letting the Right Brain Draw

I’m learning how to draw. It’s amazing that drawing doesn’t take years of art classes. Betty Edwards, in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, says that we already know how to draw. We just have to get our left brains out of the way so that our right brains (that part of us [ Read more … ]

An Aesthetic Ground

July 24, 2008

In Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards brilliantly shows us the importance of background or negative space when we draw a contour of any object or person. By noticing the negative space and drawing the edge that defines that negative space, we shift into right-brain mode and can much more accurately [ Read more … ]

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