My January project is working through this book. It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, but never have quite gotten around to it. I have had a bad habit of gathering materials to learn about drawing and painting and not using them. Working through one of the classics, which has always intimidated me, is a good start.
Today, I did the the first ubiquitous exercise where you copy a Picasso drawing upside down to bring about the shift to the non-verbal side of your brain. It’s in chapter 4 of the version of the book that I have.
I first started feeling the brain shift, that happened again today when I drew upside down and that the author talks about in this chapter, for awhile now. When I was done with this exercise, I remembered this post and the day I wrote it. I was feeling overworked and frazzled. After I drew that day, my brain felt refreshed and like it had been on vacation.
I was really resistant to doing today’s exercise from the book and some of the exercises for the pre-instruction drawings, but it’s been been helpful so far so I will continue to plow ahead.
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