Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

April 26, 2012 |

Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition by Betty Edwards

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A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come.

Translated into more than seventeen languages, 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

Betty Edwards speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies. Now retired from her position as professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, Edwards received her doctorate from UCLA in art, education, and the psychology of perception. Dr. Edwards has been profiled on the Today show and in Time, a...

Title: Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

Format: Paperback

Product dimensions: 320 pages, 9 X 7.33 X 0.76 in

Shipping dimensions: 320 pages, 9 X 7.33 X 0.76 in

Published: April 26, 2012

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Language: English

Appropriate for ages: All ages