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Title: New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing by Betty Edwards ISBN: 1-58542-195-2 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Disappointing
Comment: I loved the video "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and also the book "The New Drawing on the right Side of the Brain",but this new book is just a new format for the exercises covered in the book and video. There are not 40 new exercises as promised, and actually there are very few new exercises.
I was looking forward to the book to further the skills I developed with new ideas not to redo the exercises I've completed.
It's a great book for someone who never invested time or money in Betty Edwards' book or video, but it's not worth it if you have.
Rating: 1
Summary: another "gimmick" art book
Comment: "DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN"?
Stephen Rogers Peck has a great book of art instruction too.
You know, I got to thinking, when one reviewer observed that EDWARDS cites both Science and ZEN religion together in art instruction books, that EDWARDS, in caricature, could draw a cartoon showing nuclear scientists viewing a giant mushroom cloud on the horizon, and quote one saying: "How ZENNY!" Just as Science and Religion share distinctly different TRUTH CRITERIA, so does ART.
What EDWARDS actually offers is a form of psychological crutch, for all the drawing instruction is founded upon a singular theory. Huh-uh. I'm not buying that idea. Art has never been founded upon a singular theory. Often as not, ART is the anti-thesis, the opposite, of all theorizing. EDWARDS makes the practice of ART a theory-dependent activity. I cannot recall it was ever considered beneficial that we all be bound by a theory. It's a very undemocratic idea.
What does one actually draw WITH? Is it one half of the human brain? ...OR... Is it the Heart? Because if it is the latter, EDWARDS' art theorizing collapses. To put this in simplest terms, I venture to state that strong artists, and certainly the genuine MASTERS of drawing, would tell you straight out that they draw from their HEART, from the very bowels of their being. Certainly, the great themes in painting, are all drawings of the power of human passion, and the origion of all passion is the HEART, not the HEAD. The Gods and Goddesses of mythology, Eros, Saturn, Aphrodite, Zeus, Hera, or Hercules, and alternatively, Jesus Christ, were all powerful subjects of art, not for their Brain activity, but for their passion, their HEART.
[LOVE COMETH NOT FROM THE BRAIN, BUT FROM THE HEART]
Even the Buddhists, Zen or otherwise, do not place the greater emphasis upon the Brain, but upon the HEART, and the heart's compassion.
A mother does not know her children from her brain; but from her Heart. Thus "Madonna and Child".
ART is the opposite of any such instruction that reduces itself to any kind of theoretical hand-holding. And for these reasons, EDWARDS books are a conflicting hodge-podge of infectious ideas, the nature of which, great ART has been combating from time immemorial, for all such ideas place a crippling limitation upon free spirits. Art is about freedom, rather than the binding or crippling attachment to human fear, doubt, insecurity or angst.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent tool for artists and non-artists
Comment: I have to disagree with the few negative reviews that have recently appeared for the Edwards workbook.
This is a fine gift for anyone interested in learning to draw. While it doesn't go into depth as "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" does, it does provide enough information to get started - the methods and approach of Dr. Edwards are groundbreaking and absolutely essential information if you want to use your WHOLE brain. (And yes, Nicolaides' book is important, too, but Edwards work is very complementary to it, and carries his work many steps further...)
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Title: Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards ISBN: 067163514X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 06 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Natural Way to Draw : A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicolaides ISBN: 0395530075 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: How to Draw What You See by Rudy De Reyna ISBN: 0823023753 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title:Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; Seven Lessons to Enhance Creativity and Artistic Self-Confidence ASIN: B0000BV0U2 Publisher: Bay Area Video Coalition Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $29.99 |
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Title: Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson ISBN: 0891343377 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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