1. “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”
SEEING AS AN ARTIST
“Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”

2. Header Date: 9/16/15 Course Title: Art I: Unit/Chapter: Basic Design
Topic: Seeing as an Artist

4. State Standards Covered:
Standard: 2.4 Review and refine observational drawing skills

5. Effective Communicators Quality Learners
SLO’s:
Effective Communicators
Quality Learners

6. The Big Question
Why important: Why is it important to know how to draw well?
Answer ____________________________

7. ANYONE CAN LEARN TO DRAW
Drawing is not a magical ability

8. Drawing Accurately Is a Matter of Learning to Process Information in the Special Way Used By Artists

9. This Way of Artistic Seeing is Achieved by Using the Right side of Your Brain When You Look at Things. Let Me Explain ……….

10. The Human Brain Has Two Sides or “Hemispheres”,
One is the left side, the other is the right
Each side is responsible for a different mode of thinking
Right
Left

11. PRACTICAL ARTISTIC LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE Non-rational Math Language
Creative
Nonverbal
Reason and Fact
Intuitive
Symbolic Thinking
Holistic
Controls Right Hand
Controls Left Hand
Step-By-Step Problem Solving
Sees Likeness Between Things

12. In Most People, the Left Side of the Brain is Dominant
Trained from early childhood to think symbolically in terms of letters, numbers, etc.
Left brain interprets all images into simplified visual symbols.
Results in childish, “stick figure” like drawings.

13. You Need to Trick Left Brain into Giving Up Control to Right Brain
Ahhhh Right Brain in Control !!!
Then you can see and draw images as they really are, rather than reverting to childish symbols

14. Through the completion of perception changing exercises such as this one:
What do you see?
A Vase?
Two Faces?

15. VASE OR FACE?
When you see the vase, you are using the left side of your brain
When you see the two faces, you are using the right side of your brain

16. Practice Seeing the Image Both Ways, Until You Can Consciously Make the Left to Right Brain Shift

17. Essential Question
Why should you think with the right side of your brain when you are trying to draw realistically ?
Answer: ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________