Shvilyarok: Student's works חוג ציור

I teach drawing and painting since some years and I wanted to expose the results of the students' works.I was inspired by the book of Betty Edwards : "Drawing on the right side of the brain", and from my own experiences as an artist and teacher at school, I use also music and sometimes meditation to help our mind to open himself.

Drawing on the right side of the brain- RB- is based on the premise that the left and right hemispheres of the brain process information in very different ways.

In essence, the left brain-LB- is logical, rational using words to describe concepts and able to manipulate abstract ideas, numbers and the concept of time.

The right brain, in contrast, takes a holistic approach, sensing relationships and patterns, tends to be intuitive and irrational.

At school, I noticed that the 3rd grade's children, 8 or 9 years old, don't know anymore how to draw and lock themselves: they learnt how to use their left side brain by learning reading and arithmetic at the expense of the right side of the brain. They begin to draw with symbols like cartoons, for example an eye looks like a fish,a chair like a cube....why? because the left side of the brain has no patience to really sees, he has the remembrance of an eye or a nose and translate it to the hand with symbols.
Our work will be to disturb the left side of the brain with some exercises appropoe and give the opportunity to the right brain to express himself.
One of a simple exercise is to confuse the LS by drawing in reverse:

autoportrait Van Gogh, original

drawing in reverse

drawing in reverse 2

another drawing in reverse (Picasso)

We worked on perspective without any notion of perspective but drawing the negative space, that is to say the spaces around the object, here chairs: