Welcome to this month's newsletter - finally spring is here! I'm looking forward to the London course - just over a week away. All the 2010 classes are now full but there are waiting lists in case anyone drops out so do get in touch if you'd like to go on this - or be added to my mailing list so you hear about new dates as soon as they are announced. In this month's newsletter you will find:

• Information about the content 5-day Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain course, devised by Dr. Betty Edwards. This includes links for viewing a slideshow of participants' work and reading course feedback.


• UK Course Dates for 2010 and one in North Wales. Contact me to go on the waiting lists


• Drawing Eyes: Some things to consider when drawing eyes in a portrait


• Renaissance Drawigns in London A review of the new exhibition of Renaissance drawings which has just opened at the British Museum.


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Anna Black
Certified Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain instructor, operating under license from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (www.drawright.com)

Course Dates 2010

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP over £70).
  The contents of the Drawing Portfolio were designed by Dr Betty Edwards and Brian Bomeisler. It includes all the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. These unique tools were developed by Brian Bomeisler based on those used by the Old Masters. The Portfolio and its contents are yours to take home and keep.

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP Over £70).
  The contents of the Drawing Portfolio were designed by Dr Betty Edwards and Brian Bomeisler. It includes all the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. These unique tools were developed by Brian Bomeisler based on those used by the Old Masters. The Portfolio and its contents are yours to take home and keep.

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP Over £70).
  The contents of the Drawing Portfolio were designed by Dr Betty Edwards and Brian Bomeisler. It includes all the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. These unique tools were developed by Brian Bomeisler based on those used by the Old Masters. The Portfolio and its contents are yours to take home and keep.
• The Course Fee does not include accommodation or full board. There is an additional cost for this which varies depending on the room.

Find out more and how to book here

To find out more about how the course is structured and what you will learn, click here

For further information and a booking form, click here


Read what the media and other people have thought of Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain course here ( a new window will open)

DRAWING EYES:

• Consider your pose. If the model’s head is tilted, the eye line will follow that tilt. A common mistake is to draw a tilted head but keep the eye line straight.
• If you are drawing a three-quarter pose you need to consider the rules of perspective as the top of the head, eyeline, base of nose, mouth line, and chin will all follow these rules even if it is quite subtle.
• Eyes are commonly positioned too high. If the pose is straight on the eyes will be positioned halfway between the chin and the top of the skull.
• Eyes are much smaller than you think! Check the width and height in relation to other features.
• As a rule of thumb there is the width of an eye between the two eyes (but do check against your model as this can vary slightly).
• The eyeball is like a gobstopper or marble. A sphere resting in the eye socket. When considering light and shade think about how light falls on a sphere and creates that sense of volume through light and shadow.
• When the eyes are open only a small portion of the eye will be visible. Draw the shape of what you can see not a preconceived symbol of an eye.
• Draw the shape of the ‘white’ of the eye on either side of the iris. The top and bottom of the iris are often obscured by the top and bottom lid.
• Avoid erasing out the whites of the eye so the are bright white. This will give a zombie-look. Think about the eyeball as a sphere and as the edges turn away they will be darker. The eyelids will also cast shadow on to the white of the eye.
• Avoid drawing single eyelashes. This is the quickest way to end up with a symbolic drawing of the eye. Eyelashes can be depicted as tone – and if you left them out no one would notice!
• Consider the shape of the eye and build up the shape with short straight lines to create the curves. This will help prevent you falling into the symbol trap and the architectural lines will give a stronger sense of structure to the eye.
• In the same way we often have one foot larger than the other our eyes are not necessarily exactly the same size – always check against the model.

Next month: The Ears

Renaissance Drawings in London

FRA ANGELICO TO LEONARDO: RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS
22 April to 25 July 2010 at the British Museum, London
This exhibition is a unique collaboration between the Uffizi in Florence and the British Museum.

Over 100 exquisite drawings by Italian Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Verrocchio among others will be on show. A rare opportunity indeed to see drawings from two major collections.

Find out more here
Read a review of the exhibition from The Times newspaper here

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