Drawing students display work

In August the House of Culture sponsored a drawing class for young people from nine to seventeen called “Drawing the Right Way”. This week visitors can see the contrast between their first attempts and the images they were able to reproduce after just ten classes. Today News Five spoke with some of the students and their teacher, artist Charles Chavannes.

Samir Rosado, 12 Years Old

I just draw out of my imagination but I thought that I could not do it. But my dad told me about the class and I said well this is an opportunity for me. So now I can look back at my drawing and I can clearly see that my left brain was doing that drawing and the right brain did the last drawing that I did.

Hopefully I will get an occupation in drawing like architecture or something like that.”

Charles Chavannes, Artist/Instructor

“The left half of your brain is the half that controls speech and basically it also controls all of our symbols, the “Is” and the little pre-instruction drawings that kids do as symbols. People and things that they drew were not really the way these things looked but the left half of the brain stored these symbols. And they will draw that same object over and over again.

But what I got them to do by learning how to see is to replace these things with the proper things. For instance if they had to draw a human eye they would not draw a symbol of an eye, which is the common symbol that everybody draws that looks like a cockroach, they’d draw what they see.”

Stacy Tewes, 17 Years Old

“The more I drew I began to replace the symbol of what I thought was there by what was really there by analyzing what I wanted to draw more closely and looking for details. After a while it becomes as easy as writing or in a different language.”

If your child would like to attend the next drawing class for high school students, it is scheduled to begin October seventh. Contact the House of Culture for more information. The House of Culture is a community center which promotes the artistic and literary creativity of members of the community. Later this week, some senior citizens will be treated to an afternoon of music by Mr. Peters and his Boom and Chime Band.