This summary provides information about the Virtual Workshop Wednesday document: The document discusses an upcoming virtual workshop on Betty Edwards' book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It provides background on Betty Edwards, who is an art teacher and author known for this influential book. It also gives context on Roger Sperry's split-brain research that informed Edwards' approach. The workshop content outlines different drawing exercises focused on proportion, blind contour line drawing, and tracing portraits to build drawing skills. Sites and videos are listed for additional resources. The document promotes future art-focused virtual workshops on different topics and artists.

1. Virtual Workshop Wednesday
Betty Edwards - Portraits

2. Betty Edwards is an American art teacher
and author best known for her 1979
Drawing on the Right Side of
the Brain

4. In the 1950s & 60s, Roger
Sperry performed experiments
on cats, monkeys,
and humans to study
functional differences between
the two hemispheres of the
brain. He studied the corpus
callosum, which is a large
bundle of neurons that
connects the two hemispheres
of the brain

5. Sperry severed the corpus callosum in cats and monkeys to study
the function of each side of the brain. He found that if
hemispheres were not connected, they functioned independently,
which he called a split-brain. The split-brain enabled animals to
memorize double the information. Later, Sperry tested the same
idea in humans with their corpus callosum severed as treatment
for epilepsy. He found that the hemispheres in human brains had
different functions. The left hemisphere interpreted language but
not the right.

7. Betty Edwards taught and
conducted research at
the California State University,
Long Beach, until she retired in
the late 1990s. While there, she
founded the Center for the
Educational Applications of
Brain Hemisphere Research.

13. Blind Contour Line Drawing

14. Feel it! Vase Face
Let’s do it!

15. Proportion
the comparison of one part to another
and that part to the whole

17. Although you think
they are, your eyes
are not located in
the top part of your
head.
If you measure
using your thumb
and index finger
you will find they
are really located
about half-way
down your head.

18. These lines offer suggestions
on the placement of the
facial features.
• Eyes are usually one eye
space apart
• The eye space closely
approximates the width of
the nose
• The width of the mouth
closely relates to a
vertical line drawn from
the center of the eyes.

19. Exercises so you don’t freak out!
• Mark the central axis, eye level, nose,
and mouth lines on 5 large magazine
or printer photo portraits

20. central axis - - - >
eye level- - - >
nose level- - - >
mouth level- - - >
Usually center
of the eye - - - >
Usually corner
< - - - of the eye

21. • Select one & scribble all over the back of
the paper with a soft pencil. Flip it over
and place on top of a clean paper, then
trace the image & guidelines with a ball
point pen.

24. Repeating this simple exercise can help you
build

25. full face

26. kolowitz

27. picasso

28. sargent

29. wood

32. modigliani

33. Dürer

34. ¾ view

35. vermeer

36. davinci

37. van eyck

38. profile

39. botticelli

40. sargent

41. Sites and Videos
• https://www.drawrigh
t.com/
• http://www.ingetang.c
om/praxis/
• https://www.andrews.
edu/~freed/oldpages/
pdfs/u-2scale.pdf
• https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=nUDIo
N-_Hxs
• https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=TtrqSIh
ZR_Y

42. Virtual Workshop Wednesday
MAKE SOME STUFF!

43. ARTALK TUESDAY WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY
4.21 Contemporary & Modern Art 4.01 Andy Goldsworthy - Mandalas &
Stone Stacking
5.05 Hispanic Art 4.15 Paper Weaving
5.19 Vincent van Gogh 4.29 Teesha Moore - Whimsical Collage
6.02 Visual Art & Judaism 5.13 Georgia O’Keeffe – Flower
Photography
6.23 Jacob Lawrence @ the Lowe 5.27 Betty Edwards - Portraits
6.17 Printmaking with Found Objects
6.24 Matisse – Collage
presents

44. Virtual Workshop Wednesday
THANKS FOR SHOWING UP!