Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

A productive, useful and fun seminar in Vermont.
I attended this class with 14 other adults at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. We listened to short lectures, watched demonstrations and then tried our hand at drawing our hands, perspectives, profiles of classmates and a final self portrait. Based on Dr. Betty Edwards' book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the seminar was taught by the author's son Brian Bomeisler. "The skill of drawing is largely about relationships." We learned to work on the right side of the brain and get around the critic haranguing us from the left side.
Here are some good quotes about drawing:
Paul Klee noted that "a line is a dot that went
for a walk." More creators and more collectors need to be taken
on that walk. Edgar Degas noted, "Drawing is a species of
writing: it reveals, better than does painting, an artist's
true personality." A student who sees progress in drawing gains
the greatest self-esteem. For that reason alone artists ought
to be drawing like crazy. When Michelangelo died, a note for
one of his assistants was found on the studio floor: "Draw,
Antonio, draw. Draw and do not waste time."

PS: "Do not fail to draw something every day, for no matter how
little, it will do you a world of good." (Cennino Cennini) "You
can never do too much drawing." (Tintoretto) "There is nothing
so delightful as drawing." (Vincent Van Gogh) "You never
graduate from drawing." (John Sloan)