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4 March 2017
Mrs. Bobbie (Roberta) B is the oldest of my students. I conduct "Learning to Draw (again)" sessions at Assisted Living facilities here in Portland, Bobbie attends every week without fail.
Bobbie was an accomplished artist (drawing and painting) until a few years ago when she suffered a stroke that resulted in not being able to use much of her right side, including her hand. Bobbie was right handed, which meant the end of her doing art work: a terrible fate. As a consequence of her misfortune she became something of a recluse, rarely venturing out of her apartment and never attending any of the activities in her building (there's an activity of some sort scheduled 4 to 6 times a day). When some of her friends saw my drawings and attended my first "class" session they prevailed upon Bobbie to attend -- and she's been in every session since day one.
Bobbie is now learning to use her left hand for drawing. I have developed a series of practice exercises for novice artists, irrespective of age -- with some particular emphasis on people who share Bobbie's problem (approximately 400,000 people a year in the US suffer a stroke which paralyzes what had been their dominant hand).
The passion for drawing (art in a larger context) is very strong in humans, we seem compelled to want to make marks (decoration): drawing, painting, make-up and tattoos on ourselves, etc.
The art which Bobbie now does is inspiring, perhaps not great art by the same criteria we use to select pieces for a gallery show or museum, but rather for her passion and evidence of the indomitable human spirit to create works of art.
Mrs. Bobbie (Roberta) B is the oldest of my students. I conduct "Learning to Draw (again)" sessions at Assisted Living facilities here in Portland, Bobbie attends every week without fail.
Bobbie was an accomplished artist (drawing and painting) until a few years ago when she suffered a stroke that resulted in not being able to use much of her right side, including her hand. Bobbie was right handed, which meant the end of her doing art work: a terrible fate. As a consequence of her misfortune she became something of a recluse, rarely venturing out of her apartment and never attending any of the activities in her building (there's an activity of some sort scheduled 4 to 6 times a day). When some of her friends saw my drawings and attended my first "class" session they prevailed upon Bobbie to attend -- and she's been in every session since day one.
Bobbie is now learning to use her left hand for drawing. I have developed a series of practice exercises for novice artists, irrespective of age -- with some particular emphasis on people who share Bobbie's problem (approximately 400,000 people a year in the US suffer a stroke which paralyzes what had been their dominant hand).
The passion for drawing (art in a larger context) is very strong in humans, we seem compelled to want to make marks (decoration): drawing, painting, make-up and tattoos on ourselves, etc.
The art which Bobbie now does is inspiring, perhaps not great art by the same criteria we use to select pieces for a gallery show or museum, but rather for her passion and evidence of the indomitable human spirit to create works of art.
The Mental Process of producing a piece of artwork
There seems to be a considerable difference in the mental process of generating a piece of artwork depending on the purpose of the art: "artsy" art where the artwork itself is the end product; or "toolish" art where the art is a tool used in making an object (designing and machining a new shape of gear for example, or investigating how things work -- heat loss of your coffee in a new design of a coffee cup).
It would seem that the artsy art process is an expression, primarily, of emotions, feelings and personal thoughts. This makes the experience of producing a piece of artsy art a fairly cathartic process. At the other end of the spectru
Warning about account hackers
25 February 2017
A pass along warning posted by a deviantArt member who learned the hard way. Just be warned
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The hacker does vital region pictures around in the account page and writes in journals: "I hate you all, go die" And he/she will also remove all your watches. If this happens to me, then you know
Draw We Must 3
6 February 2017
The hand-brain-eye (vision) system (sometimes including our auditory senses) is under-appreciated and not well understood. While the brain directs the actions of the hand both consciously (as in intentionally drawing a circle, for example, because a desire for having an image of a circle has developed the pre-frontal cortex), as well as acting transparently - driven by the complex eye-cerebellum-brain system: the obsessive passion for craftsmanship is evidenced by the best in every performing art. Antonio Stradivari making violins, Hans Holbein the Younger painting portraits, Henry Maudslay making machine tools, August and
Draw We Must 2
5 February 2017
Drawing with intent, i.e., you're doing it on purpose for some reason (which may be as direct as wanting to express a feeling or idea), is an inordinately complex process requiring the entire brain-eye-hand-tool system. Anyone who has read anything of the literature on neural physiology in the last fifteen or twenty years will have seen a myriad of fMRI brain scans done while the subject is drawing. True, some parts of the brain are more active than others but drawing requires the whole brain.
Drawing starts at the neuron level which transmits signals from brain to body, e.g., motor cortex to hand so the fingers move; and
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This is truly an inspirational story!