ABSTRACT
In Nita Leland’s book The Creative Artist, in the chapter called, “Drawing: Don’t Leave Home Without It, ” she says, “In drawing you defi ne something you cannot quite describe in words. ” Later she says,
Drawing helps you to see and seeing helps you to draw. You think that when your eyes are open you are seeing, but your brain plays tricks on you, reporting stereotypes instead of what your eyes actually see. It gives you a quick and easy symbol — the tree looks like a lollipop, the eye looks like an almond — so it won’t have to work so hard searching for individual differences.
