Thursday, August 30, 2007

Drawing; The Vase Face exercise

This vase was a gift for the wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip. It features each of their profiles.

Why did you have to struggle with this field/ground exercise? To "...create conflict so that each person can experience in their own minds the mental 'crunch' that can occur when instructions are inappropriate to the task at hand." In other words, something that your left brain will reject so that your right brain can take over!

Be sure to read pp. 50-53 in our textbook, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence by Betty Edwards, © 1999 Tharcher/Putnam

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