I have a group of adult students who have been learning to draw and paint for a few years now and have recently been drawing and painting sheep. Sheep have … Read More
How Can a Ladybird Help You Learn to draw?
Can a ladybird help you learn to draw? I have just begun teaching a nine year old to draw. Normally I wouldn’t recommend teaching children under ten to draw realistically, … Read More
You Can Change Your Perspective
We all have our own perspective or view on life, your perspective is completely unique to you, no one else sees things exactly the way you do. In the art … Read More
The Eyes Have it; Anyone Can Learn to Draw Them
According to Iain Mc Gilchrist we have two mutually exclusive modes of being; the left hemispheric mode and the right. He postulates that the left is predominantly concerned with the … Read More
What is your brain’s best guess?
I recently listened to a Ted talk by Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex – that’s a heck of a title! He invites … Read More
A change of tack;
I decided to paint the NZ yellow breasted tomtit, which I had drawn in a controlled, coloured pencil style a few years ago; a demonstration piece for my students. It’s … Read More