Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is iconic in art circles for its creative transference of neuroscience into the arts classroom. Over the last four decades, Betty Edwards has deepened into what she discovered even before she fully understood what she had found, and has brought countless people's creative minds to life through the power of the brain and drawing. In the book she not only teaches you how to draw (and it really works!), but also carefully walks the reader through an introduction to the cognitive elements of the brain that the arts awakens. This book translates easily into the voice curriculum, offering avenues for vocalists to begin to realize how to help guide their brains for their own needs, and, in the meantime, you get to draw, which is always worth the time. Edwards underscores over and again that all people can draw, and that everyone approaches drawing through their own personality. Her message is the perfect visual arts equivalent of VoiceScienceWorks' "Your Voice, Your Choice". |