Comments on: family sketching

By: Weekly Roundup | turning*turning

Weekly Roundup | turning*turning — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:47:54 +0000

[...] to give me a heads up that she’d be posting it. So lovely. (I also loved reading about her family sketching outing. Wish more families did [...]

By: turningturning

turningturning — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:11:57 +0000

Oh my gosh. I resonated so much with this entry. I never picked up a pen to “draw” until I was about 26. I, too, believed that you were either creative or not, with nothing in between. People always considered me creative, but in my culture, artists were very much frowned on. Now I tell people that drawing is a skill that can be developed just like any skill. Yes, there will be people born with a more natural bent toward it (and the same is true of basketball, business, and singing) but that doesn’t mean we can’t achieve a passable level of mastery by working hard at it.

I love the “right side of the brain” books — my first introduction to journal drawing was Hannah Hinchman.

By: jaybird

jaybird — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:13:49 +0000

After finishing my undergrad in design I went to college for a Masters in Education. One of my teachers in grad school assigned Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain as a required book for class. I was a bit confused at first but I went along with it. She made us read it and we often drew in class. I was the only one with a design background so I though I’d have a leg up on everyone even though I didn’t draw often. I was wrong. People picked up very fast and it was a joy to see them discover that you can learn to draw. Our teacher later explained that we as teachers needed to think of all areas of education like this…. and that ALL students can learn any subject as long as you enter it with an open mind and figure out how they need to learn.

Thanks for posting about this book. I hadn’t thought about my experience with it for a while!