Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain- Introduction
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The document discusses the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and how it teaches perceptual skills. It explains that the book has been revised multiple times to focus on different skills, like proportion and perspective. The goal is to train right-brain perceptual functions by having students do tasks that the left brain rejects, like drawing upside down. This allows the right brain to take over and develop skills like seeing edges, spaces, and relationships. The book teaches that basic drawing and reading skills both develop these same right-brain perceptual abilities. It provides strategies for engaging the right brain, like copying upside images or focusing on negative spaces, in order to improve perception.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain- Introduction
- 1. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain INTRODUCTION
- 2. The power of perception The true subject of this book is perception. The lessons help people attain the basic ability to draw, also, bring right hemisphere functions into focus and to teach readers how to see in new ways, with hopes that they would discover how to transfer perceptual skills to thinking and problem solving, called transfer of learning
- 3. Original publication in 1979, revised three times 1989, 1999, 2012 In 1989 revision, it’s focused on proposing individuals who had never been able to draw could learn to draw very rapidly. In 1999, the revision is focused on the skills of sighting (proportion and perspective), which is the most difficult component skills to teach in words. In 2012, the revision clarifies the global nature of drawing and links to drawing’s basic component skills to thinking in general
- 4. Drawing does indeed involve thought, and it is an effective and efficient method for perceptual training “If we also teach students right-hemisphere perceptual skills, they will help students see things in context, see the whole picture, see things in proportion and in perspective, and observe and apprehend.”
- 5. Seeing skills How to perceive ? Edges Spaces Relationship Lights and Shadow Gestalt
- 6. Two vital global skills, reading and drawing Basic component of reading •Phonetic awareness (knowing that alphabet letters represent sounds) •Phonics (recognizing letter sounds in words) •Vocabulary (knowing the meanings of words) •Fluency (being able to read quickly and smoothly) •Comprehension (grasping the meaning of what is read) Basic component of drawing •The perception of edges (seeing where one thing ends and another starts) •The perception of spaces (seeing what lies beside and beyond) •The perception of relationships (seeing in perspective and in proportion) •The perception of lights and shadows (seeing things in degree of values) •The perceptions of the gestalt (seeing the whole and its parts)
- 7. L-mode, R-mode Verbal, analytical L-mode skills as a major function of the left brain Visual, perceptual R-mode skills as a major function of the right brain
- 9. “In order to gain access to the right hemisphere, it is necessary to present the left hemisphere with a task that it will turn down.”
- 10. Make the left hemisphere fade out by trick, not wanting to do the task
- 11. Ended by interfered and usurped
- 12. Elephant had been trained to paint a rough image of an elephant
- 13. People who lose language abilities due to left-brain dementia damage ( 智力受損 ) spontaneously develop unusual artistic, musical, and rhyming abilities, including drawing ability- skills attributed to the right hemisphere.
- 14. Vase/ Faces (Chapter 4) Acquaint us with the possibility of conflict between the hemispheres as they COMPETE for the task Set up to strongly activate the verbal hemisphere (Lmode) but completion of the exercise requires the ability of the visual hemisphere (R-mode).
- 15. Upside-Down Drawing (Chapter 4) This exercise is REJECTED by the left hemisphere because it’s too difficult to name parts of an image when it’s upside down. The rejection enables the right hemisphere to jump into the task without competition from the left hemisphere.
- 16. Perception of Edges (Chapter 6) Forces extreme slowness and extreme perception of tiny, inconsequential details, where every detail becomes a fractal-like whole, with details within details. It makes left hemisphere becomes “fed up” because its too slow for words” and drops out, enabling the right hemisphere to take up the task.
- 17. Perception of Spaces (Chapter 7) Rejected by the left hemisphere because it will not deal with “nothing”. Negative spaces that are not objects and can’t be named. The right hemisphere with its recognition of the whole (shapes and spaces) then free to pick up the task and seems to take antic delight in drawing negative spaces
- 18. Perception of Relationships (Chapter 8) Force left hemisphere to confront paradox and ambiguity with the angular and proportional spatial changes in perspective drawing. Because the right hemisphere is willing to acknowledge perceptual reality, it accepts and will draw what it sees.
- 19. Perception of Lights and Shadows (Chapter 10) Lights and shadows in the 3D are infinitely complex, variable, unnamable, and not useful in terms of language. The left hemisphere refuses the task, which the complexity-loving right hemisphere then picks up.
- 20. Perception of the Gestalt (Chapter 11) Through in recognition of the whole that emerges from careful perception and recording of the parts (left hemisphere) , all in relationship to each other and to the whole effected by right hemisphere.
- 21. Left brain = the great saboteur of endeavors in art
- 23. Not to draw! Go to the market, balance your checkbook, phone your mother, plan your vacation, do your work… Mr. Left brain
- 24. Any strategy?
- 25. Present your brain with a job that your left hemisphere will turn down
- 27. Regard a negative space and draw it
- 28. Simply drawing
- 29. Jogging, Meditation, Games, Music, Cooking, Gardening… Produce a cognitive shift by giving the great power to trick out its dominance
- 30. The methods have proven empirically successful by teaching experiences from students and readers
- 31. Begins with the explanation of the component skill to be explored Demonstration drawing by instructor Students apply the instructions of their own drawing (XXX-XXXI)
- 32. “Life seems much richer now that I am seeing more.”
Editor's Notes
- #12: 干預 掠奪
- #13: 干預 掠奪
- #22: 蓄意破壞者 When you draw, it will be set aside, left out of the game.
- #24: 蓄意破壞者 When you draw, it will be set aside, left out of the game.
- #26: Turn your left brain down
- #27: Turn your left brain down
- #28: Turn your left brain down
- #29: Turn your left brain down
- #30: Drop out the left brain, tricked out its dominance by giving the great power and force of the left hemisphere.