Can you tell what this is? Well, it's my highschool art students' assignment for tomorrow. I took a page out of one of my old sketchpads and am planning on making them draw it UPSIDE DOWN. Under no circumstances may they look at the picture rightside up, until they're finished drawing! This is a trick to shut down that left side of your brain that says, "Oh,that's a dog, I know what a dog looks like, I can draw a dog..." and "that's too hard! You can't draw that!" After a while of upside down drawing concentration, the left side of the brain finally gives up and shuts down. This enables the right side of the brain to take over and say, "Hmmm... that line slopes up here," and "okay now, this line angles like that..."
My students are delighted and surprised at how good their work is when they draw this way! I got the idea from Betty Edwards' idea-packed book,
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
(and yes, the pics of the sleeping dog are entitled, "Piano Lessons." When my son took piano, the teacher's dog would sprawl happily at my feet and snooze, just inviting my sketching attention!
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wow this is amazing! such a wonderful idea.. this should be taught in other art classes as well. this is thinking outside of the box, i like it!
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I know this phenomenon from the uni. I do it very often. It's a good thing to combine the activity of the two brain hemispheres with each other.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my daughter's (Peyton) favorite way to draw something. She learned the "mirror image", "upside down", perspective, and abstract at techniques recently. Upside down was her favorite! She could not wait to see what she had drawn. Then she was astonished when she turned it right side up~
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks for posting on my blog about the upside down drawing! It is a really good way to help kids understand how to follow what you SEE, and the results are always amazing! I have kids that are (really) bad drawers that come up with awesome pieces this way!
ReplyDeleteI'm praying that Jeff is doing well, and you as a family are doing well here. MERRY CHRISTMAS!