the new drawing on the right side of the brain by betty edwards

Betty Edwards is the author of:ĭrawing on the Right Side of the Brain®, 1979 (revised and reprinted in 1989, 1999, and 2012), Penguin Putnamĭrawing on the Artist Within, 1986, Simon & Schusterĭrawing on the Right Side of the Brain® Workbook, 1998 (revised and reprinted in 2012), Penguin PutnamĬolor. More than three million copies have been sold, and it has been translated into many foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Japanese. She lives in La Jolla, California, and has two children, Anne Bomeisler Farrell and Brian Bomeisler and two grandchildren, Sophie and Francesca.ĭrawing on the Right Side of the Brain® was published in 1979 (above), and since then has remained the preeminent book on its subject, used as a standard text in many art schools around the world and on the shelves of artists everywhere. As Professor of Art, she taught and conducted research until she retired, and was the founder of the Center for the Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research at CSULB. From 1978 until her retirement in 1991, she was in the Art Department at California State University, Long Beach. She later received a Master's of Art from California State University Northridge and a Doctorate in Art, Education, and Psychology from UCLA (1976).īetty taught at Venice High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District, then at a Los Angeles community college. An artist from an early age, Betty received a Bachelor's degree in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1947, and exhibited her paintings in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s. She was born in 1926 in San Francisco, and grew up in Long Beach, California, attending Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Betty Edwards is an American art teacher and author, best known for her 1979 book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® (now in its 4th edition).

The new drawing on the right side of the brain by betty edwards