DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN (DEFINITIVE, EXPANDED, UPDATED) - EDWARDS

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes: - a new introduction; - crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain; - new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.; - an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity; - and new reproductions of master drawings throughout