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Lesson Plans


Bert Dodson and Betty Edwards

From: Vincent Rousseau (vincent.rousseau-lesyeuxfertiles)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 05:44:52 PST

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    > I use Bert Dodson's keys to drawing book. I like his aproach to drawing and
    > the steps he takes to develop techniques. I also like Betty Edwards' New
    > drawing from the right side of the brain.

    Dear Gabrielle
    Thank you for the reply

    When we look at the traditional way to teach drawing, we can notice that
    teachers are always using exercices about which they canno't explain how
    they are working ! But they do work.
    Teachers become confused when students encounter real difficulties, lost
    between sight and conception. Then, they have to find the way to explain !
    And the solution is not a technical one !
    Betty Edwards and Bert Dodson enlightened me. I understood how I was able to
    learn drawing all by myself, with no much more than patience and
    observation - and how I could explain to others.
    As an independant teacher (in my own little private "school" - to tell the
    truth : my own art room - just born on the past year !), I am an enthusiat
    follower of B. Edwards and B. Dodson's methods, and I try to do the best to
    enable absolute beginners to start on with drawing (those ones who believe
    that they are desperately giftless for arts).

    What kind of exercices are you using with the best results ?
    Contour line drawings and blind contour line drawings (I mean that students
    close their eyes when drawing) seem to be very powerfull to learn the good
    gestures and posture. Negative shapes bring on fast improvement and I use
    them very often.
    To reduce students' anxiety facing the blank sheet of paper, the fear they
    may fail, the sly certainty of their genetics incapacityŠ I am used to begin
    my drawing lessons with very simples exercices, performed in silence, quite
    slowly and with steadyness : simple lines or shapes, like waves or spirals,
    and sometimes a single recurrent stroke to learn patience and call up the
    right brain. 

    --
Sincerely
Vincent
Angouleme, Charente, France.

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