

If you have your students use hand-held mirrors, be sure to use plenty of tape. We bought just one roll and gave each student a portion of it to tape their hand-held mirror to the wall for the self-portrait exercise. Be careful though, some students didn’t use enough tape, or didn’t secure them well enough to the wall, and some fell off and broke on the floor. So, we got them each a handheld mirror and used artist tape (below) to tape the mirrors to the walls around the room. Since we had a large group of students, we didn’t have enough mirrors in the building in which we met for each student to do their self-portraits. Several sheets of paper per student for them to do some of their drawings on “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” workbook The list of supplies we purchased: We bought one DVD to be watched in class: Some libraries have a copy of the DVD that you could check out to see what you think of it. If you’re an artist you could teach the material without getting the DVD, but I would recommend you check it out to see what you think about it. But if you’re like us where your time is limited, it will take some work on your part to go through and pick out which lessons you feel would be the best for your students to do, So if you have time to have your students go through the whole curriculum, then great. You would need to get familiar with how the course runs, as well as get familiar with all of the supplies you would need to purchase for each student – there’s quite a bit. There is quite a bit of preparation on the teacher’s part to prepare for the class. My daughter has always loved to draw, and we still saw great improvement in her skills with this class. It gave him a boost of confidence that he’s more capable and awesome than maybe he thought he was. It helped him see that he has some talent in an area he never had an interest in exploring. It was also great to see the boost it gave my 15-year-old son who had no desire to learn to draw.
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I have to say that we did pretty darn good! And this was only after 6 weeks of the course! I wonder if we had done the full course what we would have been able to accomplish.

We couldn’t find my then 9-year-old daughter’s before and after self-portrait drawing, but here are a couple of her other drawings that were done during this class: Here is my then 15-year-old son’s before and after self-portrait drawings of himself:

I’ll share my and my kids before and after self-portrait drawings to show that the examples given on their website and in their book are real. Each one of them improved, and the best thing was, they each KNEW they had improved! Related Post: Top 10 Art Supplies for Young Artists Our “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” before and after drawings:

(Nice!)Įven though our drawing unit was only 6 weeks long, I was amazed to see the growth of each of the kids in our class. In reality, my co-mentor and I didn’t teach the class, Betty Edwards taught the class through her excellent video instruction, and we just helped facilitate the student’s practicing in class. I was so impressed with the simple yet powerful instruction from the DVD. (We chose the DVD version because we were in a location where the internet was temperamental, and we were also able to share the DVD when needed.) We chose to use the DVD version, and boy, am I glad we let her teach the lessons for us. She has them available to stream from her site, as well as an option to purchase them on a DVD.
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The author, Betty Edwards, has made a series of videos of her teaching each lesson. So we had to pick and choose which lessons we wanted to focus on during our time.Ī parent/teacher could choose to teach the lessons themselves or use the videos that the author made to go along with her course. While “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” is a broad drawing curriculum, our co-op art unit was only 6 weeks long. How we used Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain I’m simply sharing with you the great experience we had with it in hopes to be of some help.*** I am not being sponsored or paid to review this product. ***This is an honest-to-goodness unbiased review of “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”. I had never heard of this program before then, so I was a student right along with the kids. I’d like to review it and share about our experience with it. Looking for an awesome way to teach drawing to your kids or your students? A few years ago we used “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” for a class in our homeschool co-op and we loved it.
