adults drawing, drawing breakthroughs, drawing lessons, kids drawing, mindfulness
Building Patience: Quality Drawings Take Time Drawing Can Be Compared to the Process of Building a House Part of my work with my clients is convincing them it is expected, necessary, and acceptable to take many hours to create artwork. Quality drawings take...
drawing and the brain, drawing breakthroughs, drawing lessons, mindfulness
Small Victories: Drawing to Heal Traumatic Brain Injuries Their Story I am very honored to announce my partnership with Small Victories in offering drawing lessons for students who are recovering and adapting to traumatic brain injuries. Cindy Wright, the Vice...
drawing corporate training, drawing lessons, kids drawing, mindfulness
This Just In: Making Art Is Good for Your Brain! I’ve known this intuitively for a looooong time. But now the scientists are proving it. I see this all the time with my students, whether they are youngsters, oldsters, or in betweensters. Some of it can...
drawing corporate training, drawing lessons, mindfulness
Visual Problem Solving Tricks: A Moving Pencil = Access to New Solutions There has been a lot of talk about the power of doodling lately, as well as visual recording and graphic facilitation of meetings for those in the corporate world. The idea that visual...
drawing breakthroughs, drawing lessons, mindfulness
Enough With the Digital Photographs, Try Drawing! I often explain to my students that drawing became a less common skill because of the invention of the photograph. In fact, when you look at the broad history of art, many of our wackiest art movements began...
drawing breakthroughs, drawing lessons, kids drawing, mindfulness
Feeling Stuck While Learning to Draw: How to Turn a Major Meltdown Into a Brilliant Breakthrough! In this day and age, sometimes artists get a bad rap. Labeled as “sensitive” (as if that were a negative thing?). We all know the stereotype that great...
