demonstration | Lynette Schuld

Playful kitten

Sep 3, 2021 | art teacher, demonstration

We are using water colours and ink to create this playful kitten.

Have fun!

Download illustration from here

A Girl in Acrylic

Jun 16, 2021 | art teacher, demonstration

Lets create a colourful background using acrylics and rollers. Then, draw the face of a girl.

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

Apr 19, 2021 | demonstration, soft pastels

Have fun with this demonstration using cling wrap, acrylic paint and lots of imagination.

A Girl (part one)

Mar 14, 2021 | demonstration

This is the first part of our demonstration. We had three sessions.

The topic under discussion is how to access the right side of the brain. The theory is that people are either left-brained or right-brained, meaning that one side of their brain is dominant. If you’re mostly analytical and methodical in your thinking, you’re said to be left-brained. If you tend to be more creative or artistic, you’re thought to be right-brained. But I am of the opinion that both sides exist in all of us and with a little bit of practice we can all access the right side in ourselves.

This tutorial demonstrates techniques to master when illustrating, in this case a charming photo taken by Marta Everest. Know that you can!

A Girl (part two)

Mar 13, 2021 | demonstration

This is the second part of our tutorial on how to access and train the right side of your brain.

How was this classic dichotomy born and how much truth is there to it?

This concept of brain specialization was researched by a surgeon Joseph Bogen; Robert Ornstein, author of The Psychology of Consciousness; and Roger Sperry, the psychobiologist who conducted landmark “split brain” experiments, that earned him the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1981. These award-winning experiments demonstrated significant differences in the mental capabilities of the brain’s two hemispheres. The left hemisphere was shown to be logical, analytic, quantitative, rational and verbal, whereas the right hemisphere was revealed to be conceptual, holistic, intuitive, imaginative and non-verbal. I have had students over the years who were strong left-brained who learned how to activate their right sides. It is possible with a little bit of discipline, training and practice. Believe it, you can draw!

A Girl (part three)

Mar 13, 2021 | demonstration

This is the third, and last part of our tutorial on how to access and train the right side of your brain.

Having personally witnessed my students over many years I have concluded that creativity resides in both sides of the brain.

The link to the right brain is obvious. It shows curiosity, synergy, experimentation, metaphoric thinking, playfulness, solution finding, artistry, flexibility, future oriented, welcoming of change. But, it requires different mental processes which are left sided to realise the vision such as rational processes of analysis and logic.

Let us now finish our project: an illustration based on a photo which we are creating upside down.