The LZM Studio Blog
Building Patience: Quality Drawings Take Time
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...
Digital Kids: Computer-Aided Drawing is Good Drawing Practice
Digital Kids: Computer-Aided Drawing is Good Drawing Practice Here is another quick post on kids, technology, and drawing. The goal to unplug your kids is important and choosing what they are plugging into is also important! Computer-aided drawing is actually...
Minecraft Can Be Good for Your Kid’s Drawing Skills
Minecraft Can Be Good for Your Kid's Drawing Skills Why I Recommend Minecraft Many kids I work with are taking drawing lessons because their parents want to get them into activities that limit their screen time. Drawing is tactile; it takes construction skills....
Does Your Kid Dream of Architecture? Drawing Lessons Are a Good Place to Begin!
Does Your Kid Dream of Architecture? Drawing Lessons Are a Good Place to Begin! Connecting Perspective Drawing to the Architecture Process Drawing lessons are a good place to begin for those kiddos that are interested in architecture. Yesterday I had the honor...
Small Victories: Drawing to Heal Traumatic Brain Injuries
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...
Christmas in July?
Christmas in July? You're probably not thinking about Christmas right now, since it's July. But last December someone found my website and asked me to draw a picture of their daughter's house for a Christmas present. I rushed and got it done in two weeks in between my...
Making Art Is Good for Your Brain
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 probably...
Visual Problem Solving Tricks: A Moving Pencil = Access to New Solutions
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...
Enough With the Digital Photographs, Try Drawing!
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...
Feeling Stuck While Learning to Draw: How to Turn a Major Meltdown Into a Brilliant Breakthrough!
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 artists...
Can Your Kid Draw On Demand? Why, Yes!
Can Your Kid Draw On Demand? Why, Yes! One of the things I explain to the parents of children who are taking drawing lessons is that it might take time for their children to integrate what I am teaching them into their own free drawing time. Generally, my rule of...
Increased Neural Matter? Yes, Please!
Increased Neural Matter? Yes, Please! I often tell my private lesson students that learning to draw exercises parts of the brain that are sometimes less developed in our culture. But learning to draw is helpful for both kids in school and adults in the...
Sophisticated Graphite Pencil Portraits, for Kids and Adults!
Sophisticated Graphite Pencil Portraits, for Kids and Adults! A lot of people think that kids can't draw as well as adults- a misconception that is really not true! Many children are open to learning the same techniques that adults can learn in drawing....
Hey, Tomato!
Hey, Tomato! It has been toooo loooong since I've blogged for y'all. Check back soon, because I've got new images of students' drawings and my artwork, tips about learning to draw, new workshops, COMING SOON online and skype lessons (whoohoo! it has been quite an...
In Memory of Sue
In Memory of Sue There is something very personal that I get to share with my students. They willingly open themselves up in front of me - because in order to learn you really have to be vulnerable; mess up; expand yourself; try again when something didn't work out...
Special Guest Models!
Special Guest Models! Last week, I had some very special guests modeling in the studio for a private lesson: Ellie and Pica! Our Adorable Models My youngest student, Rio, brought her buddies to her lesson so we could draw while observing them. Drawing from...
How Drawing Is Like Juggling; And How Both Are as Difficult to See as a Gorilla on a Radiology Slide
How Drawing Is Like Juggling; And How Both Are as Difficult to See as a Gorilla on a Radiology Slide The Correlation Between Drawing and Juggling Would you ever compare the skill of drawing to the skill of juggling? How about finding a gorilla on a radiology...
LZM Free Demonstration at Jerry’s Artarama in Austin, February 2
LZM Free Demonstration at Jerry's Artarama in Austin, February 2 I draw stuff. With pencils. Every day. And I teach lots of kids, teens, and adults how to do the same thing, every day. I will be showing how I do this by demonstrating how light falls on basic shapes...