A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink

Author:Daniel H. Pink
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, Inc.
Published: 1999-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Bomeisler is a sympathetic teacher with the gentle manner of Mr. Rogers had Mr. Rogers done time on Paris’s left bank. During each drawing exercise, he glides around the room offering encouragement. “I’m here to keep your left hemisphere quiet,” he murmurs. One day he teaches us about negative space—that is, the area between and around an image. He shows us the logo of FedEx, like the one below.

Look at the white space between the “E” and the “x” in “Ex.” See the arrow? That’s negative space. When we draw portraits of our classmates later in the week, we begin by lightly shading our large piece of paper—and then erasing the part that’s not the outline of our subject’s head in order to reveal it. “Negative space is a powerful drawing tool,” Bomeisler says. “It’s one of the secrets to learning how to draw.”

Over the next four days, we learn to see several of these relationships—between space and negative space, between light and shadow, between angles and proportions—in ways that many of us never noticed. We draw stools propped on tables, the wrinkles on our hands, and the shadows that caress the corners of Bomeisler’s studio. Throughout Bomeisler repeats his mantra that “drawing is largely about relationships” that, when combined, create the whole. And so, in some sense, is this course. All of our exercises in relationships lead to the final afternoon, when we must integrate our newly acquired understanding into a big picture—a second attempt at a self-portrait.

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