Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

This book will teach you to draw even if you feel you have little talent and doubt that you could ever learn. It will also give professional artists a deeper appreciation for art and perception. By Dr. Betty 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

• 320 pages
• Dimensions 7.3 x 0.76 x 9 inches