The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999 - Cerebral dominance - 291 pages

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.

Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:

  • the very latest developments in brain research
  • new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education
  • instruction on self-expression through drawing
  • an updated section on using color
  • detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving


Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life--artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers--have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."

From inside the book

 

Contents

One Step at a Time II
11
The Right and Left of It
27
Experiencing the Shift from Left to Right
49
Copyright

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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The 1999, 3rd Edition
Betty Edwards
Limited preview - 1999
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards
No preview available - 1999
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards
No preview available - 1999

Common terms and phrases

Albrecht Dürer angles artist Basic Unit beautiful begin brain central axis chair Check chin choose cognitive shift color wheel colored pencil complete composition corpus callosum crosshairs D. T. Suzuki dark drawing paper drawing skills Edgar Degas edges eraser Eugene Delacroix example exercises eye level line face feel Figure format forms graphite hair hand handwriting head horizontal hues human imagined learning to draw left hemisphere left-handed letters lights and shadows logic look marks mirror mode negative shapes negative spaces nose objects painting Palmer method pastel perceive perception perceptual skills perhaps person perspective plastic Picture Plane problem proportions Pure Contour Drawing R-mode relationships relative right hemisphere self-portrait sighting skills of drawing skull slant split-brain style sure teachers teaching things three-quarter view tion tone upside verbal vertical viewer Viewfinder Vincent Van Gogh visual perceptions width words

About the author (1999)

Betty Edwards is professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, California. She is the author of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the, the world's most widely used drawing instructional, which has been translated into thirteen foreign languages with U.S. sales of almost three million copies. She speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies, including the Walt Disney Corporation and the Apple Corporation.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
AuthorBetty Edwards
Edition2, illustrated, revised
PublisherJeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 25, 2010
ISBN0874774195, 9780874774191
Length291 pages
  
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