Drawing and Language Learning
Over the past two days, I have been practicing and learning more about seeing geometrical shapes in objects, characters and in landscapes. The task is to sketch the shapes and then to add more 'organic' detail. While I am focused on drawing, I think of little else. I am not, for example, analyzing myself and drawing up plans. I am, in fact at peace.I got to talking about this with my sister. We wondered if this 'flow' experience was because while in the world of 'images', our left analytical brain is 'resting'?
A quick Google research shows that the evidence is inconclusive - also as pertains to learning a second language. We seem to use both parts of the brain for drawing and for language learning, but different tasks may be the carried out in the left versus the right hemisphere.
I wonder if when using the right brain, where images, shapes, and sounds, and meanings of words seem to be primarily processed, we do, though, allow ourselves to rest from the constant analysis some of us are prone to. Maybe with practice, the analysis involved with learning to see geometrical shapes, and learning drawing 'tricks, will recede even further into the background. Maybe approaching language with a less grammatical approach- a more wholistic approach- via music and general listening and reading, could also encourage a certain "lightness" due to analysis being set aside for periods of times, or at least moved to the background.
This may not make sense - it is a very superficial attempt to touch on a very complex subject.
Here then are yesterday's practice activity and today's lesson:
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| Fun with Application |
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| Seeing Geometrical Shapes in Landscapes- just could not get the lake to look like a lake! Comments appreciated. |
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